Hammer's Slammers source material question

[lastbesthope]

I got the Hammer's Slammers Trav supplement because I liked the sound of the setting.

I saw these three collections on Amazon, how much of the original fiction do theycontain I have never read any of the original fiction so I'm a bit of a newb in this setting.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Complete-Hammers-Slammers-Volume/dp/1439133093/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1330861764&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Complete-Hammers-Slammers-Volume/dp/1439133344/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1330861764&sr=8-2
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Complete-Hammers-Slammers-Volume/dp/1439133964/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1330861764&sr=8-3

Thanks

LBH

 

[Mytholder]

They've got pretty much everything. There is, IIRC, one novel set in the same universe, but that isn't a Slammers story so it's not in those collections, but everything else is there.

 

[jedavis]

I keep meaning to pick up the second and third anthologies, but haven't yet... The first was quite good, though I had already read a few pieces from before it was collected.

And yeah, the one in the Hammerverse but not about the Slammers is The Forlorn Hope. It was also pretty good, and quite a contrast with the Slammers, who are professional and well-equipped, while the Company in Forlorn Hope is not-so-well equipped, and rather scrappy.

 

[Egil Skallagrimsson]

Not read the 3rd volume (yet), but the other two are pretty comprehensive about the Slammers, and combat in "Hammerverse".

Egil

 

[lastbesthope]

Thanks for the info guys, adding the first one to mywishlist

LBH

 

[Elrick]

Some of the Hammer's Slammers books are available free as ebooks from Baen Books. Here's The Tank Lords: http://www.baenebooks.com/p-624-the-tank-lords.aspx