Re: Re:Hammer's Slammers/Forever War (Was Re: Starship Troopers)

On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Otterboy wrote:

> 
> -If you'll recall from the Hammer's Slammers books, the Slammers never
went
> -up against a similarily equipped opponent.  So you'd need only ONE
set of
> 
> 
> I seem to recall that in book version of "The Warrior" the Slammers
face
> another mercenary force who has hover armor (but in this case SPGs,
not
> tanks).  This other force also used hover APCs, rather than skimmers.
> 

The OpFor had Air cushion SPG's with 10 cm Powerguns.  Even these would 
not penetrate the frontal armor of a Slammer's tank with a single shot, 
wheras the 20 cm powerguns on the Slammer's tanks would penetrate almost

anything with a single shot.  The only thing that even comes close to 
being a major hazard to Slammer tanks were the Anti-tank sub-munitions	
as seen in "Rolling Hot" were a single round pierced the top armor of a 
tank, totally destroying it.  Even these are well defended against by
the 
fact that all the tri-barrels of the tanks in a Slammers unit can be
used 
for Automatic Air Defense.

This leads to several questions:  exactly how much does a Slammers tank 
cost??	Why doesn't anyone else have them?  has anyone made conversions 
for SGII?

--Binhan