Slammer Legacy Edition on Wargame Vault

 A while ago I mentioned that I had been in discussion with a games creator and publisher regarding further development of Slammer. That creator is Ivan Sorensen at Nordic Weasel Games. Ivan is a long time supporter of Slammer and has often promoted the game.

If you are not already aware of Nordic Weasel games, then I recommend them very highly. They cover a wide range of periods and genres, using innovative game mechanisms. Examples include, Five Parsecs from Home, Renegade Scout, Laserstorm, Five Men at Kursk, History Dad WW2, etc.  Ivan is prolific in turning out new games and updating his existing range. They are very good and well worth a look through. 

Ivan has posted a copy of Slammer on Wargame Vault as a pay what you want.

If there is enough interest, we hope to look at creating a wholly new edition of Slammer, updating and expanding the rules. 

 Cheers, 

 Chris 

 

A message from Nordic Weasel Games via Wargame Vault.

Published back when the internet was young, I have worked with Chris Nicole to make his Slammer skirmish scifi rules available again.

This is a straight conversion of the original document, though in the coming months we hope to both tidy up the game and add some examples, diagrams and so forth as well as work to create a new, cool edition of the rules.

This Legacy edition makes the game available again, as the website had finally vanished into the ether and lets you enjoy a personal favourite game of mine. 

What IS Slammer? 

The Slammer rules are usable for a range of Hollywood-inspired science fiction skirmish action, complete with big heroes, cool space troopers and bug eyed aliens. 

Featuring a clever reaction table, the morale and well being of your troops will affect what actions they can perform each turn but gameplay still moves quite quickly. 

A starting game can play well with a handful of characters on each side, while you can easily play with a platoon once you understand how the game works. 

The rulebook currently clocks in at under 40 pages, giving all the basic stuff needed to play a game without a lot of waffling about. You are here to shoot bug eyed monsters right?"

It is available Pay What You Want (suggested 5 USD) here:

https://www.wargamevault.com/product/519467/Slammer-Legacy-Edition

A new era begins 

It has been a while since I posted here. Last year I retired from work, and I have been busy. We have been getting our house in order, we have bought a Motor Caravan and we have been away seeing the sights and having adventures.

Last week, after nearly thirty years online I closed my web account and deleted my home web site. 

My website www.loran.karoo.net has been completely removed, Slammer Rules and Army lists, along with the TFT Codex 2000, Loran campaign and all my other Web pages. 

My Internet provider changed hands a few years ago. Apparently, they decided to stop hosting websites back then. Existing sites including mine remained online, but I was unable to access it or make changes. I was not notified and had assumed it was a technical issue or my password. As I didn't need to update much it was more an inconvenience to me.

I contacted my provider about updating the site. This was when they told me they had stopped web hosting. I decided to close my account and was told it would end in early March. The next morning it had already gone.

 

Now the good news. 

1. I have backups. If there is any interest I could restore my site or pages with another host.
2. My blog site is still online (Here). I will create new pages for my games rules on the blog in due course. Slammer is back online already in a truncated form.
3. I am in discussions with a well known game designer and publisher about a new edition of Slammer. I will provide more news as soon as I have any.

Please contact me directly if you have any comments or queries.

Cheers,

Chris