SPACE RULES:
Silent Death: The Next Millenium
| Brief Description |
Tactical space combat game using miniatures on a hex-gridded playing field.
Each ship has a "starship display" for tracking status (including damage). Weapons
include torpedoes, cannon, and missiles. New (second) edition includes ship design
rules, tournament rules, and additional background material.
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| Period | Over 9,000 years in the future |
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| Scale | Tactical. Scale unstated.
Presumably, each figure represents an individual starship. |
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| Basing | Hexagonal bases are provided for each ship |
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| Contents | Boxed set includes:
- 168-page perfect-bound rulebook
- 32-page staple-bound starcraft display booklet
- 16-page staple-bound scenario booklet
- two 2' x 3' black hexsheets
- 48 plastic ships with bases
- set of plastic missiles, torpedoes and asteroids
- dice (12-, 10-, three 8-, three 6-, and 4-sided dice)
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| Designers | Kevin Barrett (first edition); Matt Forbeck (second edition) |
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| Publisher | Second edition published 1996 by
by Iron Crown Enterprises, Inc. |
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Sunrunners
This Forces series booklet describes the Barat, a group of
mercenaries on the Frontier. This 80-page publication provides background
material, campaign guidelines, two new weapons (EMP and Flak), 8 new ship
designs, and 11 scenarios.
Warhounds
Part of the Tech series of supplements, this 60-page booklet
provides the rules for a new class of starship: the escort vessel. Included
are new weapons, new ship design rules, a campaign, 6 ship designs, and
3 scenarios.
NIGHT BROOD: First Contact
This 60-page booklet in the Races series details the Grub, an alien race
intent upon destroying Mankind. Included is a counter sheet with 188 ship counters and
markers. The rules include background material, new alien weapons, 10 ship designs,
campaign guidelines, and a dozen scenarios.
Wings of Death
This boxed set contains the same plastic ships which are included in
the Silent Death: The Next Millenium boxed set. There are
four of each of these ships:
- Blizzard
- Dart
- Hell Bender
- Kosmos
- Lance Electra
- Night Hawk
- Pit Viper
- Salamander
- Spirit Rider
- Talon
- Teal Hawk
- Thunder Bird
If you would like to add your opinion to this webpage, use the following form or
send email to the editor.
- Shipbuilder Software
- Makers of shareware ship-building software for use with Silent Death.
- Unofficial Rules for Boarding Actions in Silent Death
- By Pete Dixon (dixonpg_osu@ionet.net). At the
Guild Companion website.
- The Western Apostles of Mayhem
- Includes new designs, tactical advice, and battle reports.
- Schoon's Email Newsletter
- This unofficial newsletter is distributed by email.
- Unofficial Silent Death Homepage
- Vijay Ramanujan (vijayr@cybernex.net) runs this
great page with new rules, tactical analyses, and new ships.
- Evan's Silent Death Page
- Evans (evansj@psi.com) has new ships and scenarios,
plus some battle reports.
- Craig's Silent Death Page
- Craig (Staraven@Interlog.com) is an "insider,"
and has exclusive information
about ShipBuilder, the official Silent Death software design tool. Also keeps a FAQ and
errata.
- Brian Hoover's Silent Death Page
- The highlight of Brian's (hooverbw@cs.purdue.edu) site
are the Star Wars conversion rules.
- Shad's Silent Death Page
- Shad (sl5h2@cc.usu.edu) has some interesting
custom ships.
If you know of additional resources for this game, please let us know by sending email to
the editor. If you have material you would like to make available to the
Net, also let us know.
| Last Updates |
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| 24 September 1999 | added Shipbuilder Software link |
| 22 September 1999 | added webring |
| 4 May 1998 | added Mayhem link |
| 27 May 1997 | new email for Evans |
| 26 May 1997 | added Schoon's newsletter
Brad's webpage is gone
added many new links |
| Comments or corrections? |
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