Dave's guide to Hammer's Slammers:

HAMMER'S SLAMMERS (Hammer Series) (Ace/1979) Dave's comments
CROSS THE STARS (Connected to Hammer Series) (Tor/1984)
AT ANY PRICE (Hammer Series) (Baen/1985) Contents
COUNTING THE COST (Hammer Series) (Baen/1987) A solo novel, reprinted in Caught in the Crossfire
ROLLING HOT (Hammer Series) (Baen/1989) A solo novel, reprinted in The Tank Lords. Dave's comments
THE WARRIOR (Hammer Series) (Baen/1991) Contents
THE SHARP END (Hammer Series) (Baen/1993)
THE VOYAGE (Connected to Hammer Series) (Tor/1994) Dave's comment
PAYING THE PIPER (three Hammer novellas) (Baen/2002)

What are the books in the Hammer series?
The original Hammer's Slammers was published by Ace, but republished in an expanded fashion by Baen. The rest of the series was also Baen--At Any Price, Counting the Cost, Rolling Hot, and The Warrior. In addition to these, The Sharp End is post-Hammer Hammer. (There's no particular order to the first five books.)

The most recent book in the series is Paying the Piper (Baen, 2002), which again is in no particular order with the first five books. The notion of doing a follow-on series (with The Sharp End) was a bad idea.

The entire contents of the first five books in the series, plus a new story per volume, have been reprinted in the three Baen omnibus collections: The Tank Lords, Caught in the Crossfire, and The Butcher's Bill. These are still in print. Cross the Stars (Tor, later Baen) and The Voyage use the Hammer universe to retell classical Greek epics (with some of the Hammer characters in the form of Gods).

Night Shade Books is bringing out the Complete Hammer’s Slammers, which is just that. The first two (lovely) of the three volumes are out.

Are you going to write more Hammer stories?
Yes, I've done two recent novelets in the series (A Death in Peacetime and The Day of Glory) and intend to do a third. One will appear in each volume of the Night Shade limited edition trilogy of The Complete Hammer's Slammers.

I'll probably do more as well, but I don't have current plans.

Hammer's Slammers Games

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.)

In 2000 Mattel paid a bundle up front for electronic game rights to Hammer's Slammers. So far as I know the game hasn't gotten beyond the preliminary concept stage--but their check cleared.

And greatly to my surprise, the Hammer stories are important texts in British miniature wargaming circles. There's a website dedicated to one club's vision of Hammer's Slammers [http://www.salute.co.uk/slammers3/index.htm].

The club's vehicles weren't quite what I had in mind, but I worked with John Treadaway (the club's webmaster) and John Lambshead, the British Museum's expert in marine nematodes, to bring out a history and campaign book on Hammer's Slammers for the miniature wargaming market. Ground Zero Games has done 25-mm and 15-mm miniature figures, and Old Crow has done combat vehicles in both scales(http://www.oldcrowmodels.co.uk/hammers.htm). The book is out from Pireme Publications. This was a lot of fun.

Check our Hammer's Slammers war game web page.