Talk:Hammer's Slammers

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I have removed the following from the "related works" section: " Seas of Venus (2004) A story of mercenary organizations similar to the Slammers on Venus." I did so because the section heading indicates this is for works set in the same universe as the Slammers works, which Seas of Venus is not. It is explicitly set in the world of "Clash by Night" by Henry Kuttner (possibly writing with his wife). Seas of venus is also about a group of mercenary soldiers, but so are many works by Drake that are in now way related to the Slamers series except via authorship and theme. This includes Redliners and The Forlorn Hope, as well as The Seas of Venus. DES ^(talk) 20:22, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Describe setting

Please describe the setting of the books. Where and when do these take place? MrZaius^talk 06:48, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

I had the same thought now, while reading the article on the "Hammerverse". The article includes lists of the books and stories, and of the technology, but there's no list of the locations described in the series. I will research and put something together. Generally speaking, it's a possible human future, in which mankind has colonized the galaxy. Much of the colonization was driven by specific nations, who imparted their character to their off-world colonies. For example, Colonel Hammer's home world, Friesland, was settled by a Dutch effort. Best regards,TheBaron0530 (talk) 20:50, 20 February 2017 (UTC)theBaron0530

Organizations are cruft

The section on "Organizations" is merely cruft, and in fact it's duplicated in the RPG books. I am removing it today. 192.91.147.35 (talk) 21:22, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

"ACV Weaknesses"

The specifics of air-cushion vehicles aren't relevant to this article. If you want the information included in Wikipedia, then make sure there's a link to the page on ACVs (and there is.) 75.61.133.119 (talk) 07:24, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

For one thing, I'm not sure that we need to specifically state that the capabilities of fictional powerplants in fictional universes are themselves fictional. For another, the source material repeatedly describes the fans as being gimbaled and directional; they're really just ducted-fan thrusters, and the reason that they blow air into a plenum instead of operating on direct thrust is to reduce the overall ground pressure. "Rolling Hot" even describes combat cars lifting solely on fan thrust. And the original text (currently restored) did state that the extremely high outputs of the fictional fusion plants were needed to make the whole thing work.

I guess I'm just not really certain why you're so insistent that this specific article dump on the idea of hovercraft combat vehicles. It's like going into the "Star Wars" article and complaining about the Force. It's part of the background, it's no less fictional than the powerguns that use Fortean phenomena to blow your head off. 192.91.173.42 (talk) 00:19, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Gentlemen: I am 60 years old and in my life I have had many unpleasant realities revealed to me. One, which I will use to make my point here, was when I face an entire second grade class of students ALL of whom firmly believed the human race regularly travelled to the stars because they saw it every week on "Star Trek". To finish, if it is fiction in violation of physical law I believe it is simple common sense to label it as such because "no one would believe that" just doesn't happen in the real world.Aaaronsmith (talk) 21:41, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

I look forward to your extensive annotations on why powerguns, handheld lasers, handheld railguns, fusion powerplants, hyper-advanced AI, FTL travel, plasma thrusters, nucleardampers, and just about every single solitary aspect of the Hammer's Slammers universe is in violation of physical law. 192.31.106.35 (talk) 23:33, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

You missed the point. Everything you list MIGHT be possible w a sufficient change in technology. ACV is something we do today and we KNOW, from theory and practical experience for the last 50 years, a bigger power plant makes no difference and all the other weaknesses cannot be eliminated. Now, if he had postulated some kind of anti-gravity lift for his tanks, I would have no case because it MIGHT be possible.Aaaronsmith (talk) 18:08, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Your objections are addressed in the original texts. If you had actually read the series you'd know this. 192.35.35.34 (talk) 23:50, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

I read the first book (the one w the incredible introduction). I'm sorry, they don't work. Give them infinite power, and all the fans will do is cavitate. A standard problem of pneumatics. I don't care what extra explainations were given, THEY DON'T WORK or every army in the world would be using them right now.Aaaronsmith (talk) 03:49, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

What you lot fail to realize is that the novels are meant for entertainment, and their writer can do whatever he wants with his work. 199.247.253.42 (talk) 16:23, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Poetic license has its limits or some authors would use it as an excuse to tell stories of wooden sailing ships going faster than sound and flapping your arms and flying to the moon.Aaaronsmith (talk) 02:27, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Article is getting crufty

It seems to me that the "Technology" part of this article is becoming filled with cruft. Most of what's there is just flat-out copy-paste from the books and doesn't really need to be repeated here. Unless people express serious objections, I'm going to try to trim it down a bit. 192.31.106.35 (talk) 20:57, 10 June 2009 (UTC)