Archive template combined with post slider and regular posts

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There are several ways of doing this. You could, for instance, incorporate a counter into your loop and treat the post data with respect to the counter’s value.

YOUR QUERY HERE
$my_counter = 0;
while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
$my_counter++;
if ( $my_counter <= 4 ) {
    SLIDER ACTION
} else {
    REGULAR POST ACTION
}
endwhile;