David Drake

Yes, in several fashions.

Mayfair Games brought out a Hammer’s Slammers board game back in the ’80s.

Intracorps licensed electronic game rights to Hammer’s Slammers in the mid ’90s. They got seriously into development, but they were overextended and went bankrupt well before they completed the game. (They paid me part of the money. The business was frustrating in a number of respects, but I was paid well enough to justify the hassle.)  continue reading…

Hammer’s Slammers Handbooks

Pireme Publishing will launch the definitive guide to wargaming the characters and actions in David Drake’s Hammer’s Slammers books. Hammer’s Slammers – The Crucible contains:

• A unique Slammers story introduction by David Drake • Character History and Background • Vehicle and Weapon Designs and Technical Specifications • Full Profiles of the Slammers, other mercenary units and aliens • Easy to Play Rules and Scenarios • Unit Cards • Painting Guide by Kevin Dallimore • A4 Hardback format • Full colour throughout

Featured in Miniature Wargames Magazine, Issue 325 continue reading…

Available from Mongoose Publishing (June 2009) as part of their Traveller Series of games.

Dave’s original introduction to the Hammer’s Slammers Role-Playing game rules for Mongoose. The version as printed drops the title and was edited for length.

FIVE FIREBASES

I was very pleased when I got the materials for the Hammer’s Slammers role-playing game. The text had been written by someone familiar not only with my fiction but also with life in the military (which to me is a much more important consideration).

I like the art as well, but that leads to a different question: does it look the way I meant it to? The truth is that I write from the mental pictures I formed in the field in 1970 with the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, and I wasn’t thinking much about US equipment then.  continue reading…

Miniature wargamer Mike Buonagurio created a blower command tank named Drake’s Hammer, using the head from one of the rare Drake figures from Ground Zero Games attached to a Slammers tank commander body.

THE SQUARE DEAL started when a friend noticed that many publishers had books based on games but that Tor did not. She sold Tom Doherty, Tor’s publisher, on the idea of books set in the Car Wars universe of Steve Jackson Games; called SJG to get their approval; and then called me.

Because I’m a successful writer, I get asked to do a lot of things. It’s not easy for me to say no to friends–or for that matter, to anybody else–and I’ve been involved with a variety of projects that I wasn’t personally enthusiastic about at the beginning. I’ve always learned something from the experience, but often the major lesson has been that I never want to do that again. (I’ve got pretty good instincts, but I’m also personally conservative. If I did only the things that I immediately wanted to do, I’d be a very narrow and limited person. Well, more limited and narrow.) continue reading…