#hell's hammers

A heavy recovery vehicle attached to Hell’s Hammers, an elite armor unit of the Empire  (Joe Johnston concept art for what became the AT-AT in The Empire Strikes Back, from the Imperial Sourcebook for Star Wars the Roleplaying Game by Greg Gordon, West End Games, 1989)  WEG’s writers used previously unseen art from the files of Lucasfilm, Ltd, as the basis of many new additions to the Star Wars expanded universe.  Hell’s Hammers are mentioned again in Imperial Entanglements (1996) in a scenario for Star Wars Miniatures Battles featuring a recovery crew on foot attempting to retrieve an immobilized repulsortank.

Imperial Firehawke heavy repulsortank recognition guide, and a similar immobilized tank contested by Rebel and Imperial Army troopers (Stephen Crane, Imperial Entanglements, scenario supplement for Star Wars Miniatures Battles, West End Games, 1996; featuring a scratch-built vehicle with miniatures originally by Grenadier Models)