Silent Death Collection (I.C.E. 1995)

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I.C.E. (Iron Crown Enterprises) – Silent Death – The Next Millennium Deluxe Edition (I.C.E. 1995)

Silent Death: The Next Millennium is an exciting, quick-playing, and easy-to-learn table-top game of star fighter combat set against the backdrop of a disintegrating high-tech empire in the far future.

The universe of Silent Death: TNM is our own future 9,000 years from now. Space travel is common for those species that hold the technology, and humans have come to live on hundreds of worlds all across the Orion arm of our galaxy.

This Deluxe Box Set allows for a wide diversity of weapon types, crew quality, and tactical situations. Exciting new features include ship-building rules that allow you to design ships from scratch and 24 updated, beautifully illustrated ship designs.

Collection Includes:

Silent Death – Metal Express (ICE #7010)

Silent Death – Night Brood : Campaign Against the Grubs (ICE #7013)

Silent Death – The Next Millennium Deluxe Edition (ICE #7200)

Silent Death – Black Guard : The Ptolemean Wars Continue (ICE #7012)

Silent Death – Fighter Tactics Manual (ICE #7220)

Silent Death – Overkill (ICE #7011)

Silent Death – Rules of Warfare (ICE #7218)

Please note, no maps are included as any blank hex map can be used for play.

Silent Death – Metal Express (ICE #7010)

Silent Death is a space combat game, normally played with miniatures. Most ships are fighter and heavy-fighters in size, but there are expansions to include gunboats and small capital ships. Each ship has a control sheet to make all bookkeeping (mostly damage and ammo when necessary) easier. The game is normally played in 10 turns, each player alternate moving all ships before making attacks.

From designer’s notes:
Silent Death is an attempt to produce a fun and fast-moving game that is simple to learn. The mix of design trade-offs (detail for playability) in the Standard Game feels about right, but since you can’t satisfy all of the people all of the time, we piled in a bunch of optional rules so players can find their own optimum mix; either simpler or more complex.

Silent Death – Night Brood : Campaign Against the Grubs (ICE #7013)

A gruesome new menace stirs on the periphery of known space. Armed with devastating technologies and a thirst for mayhem, these Hatchling aliens (known simply as Grubs), burst forth from their hidden Clutch-worlds. Millions of them, including an overwhelming contingent of bio-mechanical starfighters, embark on a sector-wide rampage. In their path stand a few isolated frontier planets with a rag-tag collection of out-dated fighters and ordnance.

Emergency calls go out to Imperial garrisons hundreds of light years away. The Terrans muster their far-flung forces, but every delay brings the fall of another frontier world. The clock is ticking, the Hatchlings are gaining strength, and this crisis is rapidly spinning out of control!

Night Brood chronicles the events of the First Hatchling Scourge—the invasion of the Tau Albriton Frontier Sector and the subsequent Imperial relief effort.

Silent Death – The Next Millennium Deluxe Edition (ICE #7200)

Silent Death: The Next Millennium is an exciting, quick-playing, and easy-to-learn table-top game of star fighter combat set against the backdrop of a disintegrating high-tech empire in the far future.

The universe of Silent Death: TNM is our own future 9,000 years from now. Space travel is common for those species that hold the technology, and humans have come to live on hundreds of worlds all across the Orion arm of our galaxy.

This Deluxe Box Set allows for a wide diversity of weapon types, crew quality, and tactical situations. Exciting new features include ship-building rules that allow you to design ships from scratch and 24 updated, beautifully illustrated ship designs.

Silent Death – Black Guard : The Ptolemean Wars Continue (ICE #7012)

” Let Operation Hurricane Begin!”
With these words, Marshal Beznikov ushered in the final Colosian assault on the Ptolemean Homeworld.
As chronicled in the first Silent Death expansion, Overkill, the dire Ptolemean Wars began with invasions from Houses Colos and Dneprodzerkutsk. Now, after nearly a year of desperate fighting, the Colosian Fleet is ready to take the capital of House Ptolemus in one final, cataclysmic battle.
Is the fate of House Ptolemus sealed? Will it pass into the void, cast out of the Imperium as a depleted renegade power?
Not if their last few fighter pilots have anything to say about it!

Black Guard chronicles the climactic battle which closes out Imperial Year 475 and marks a significant turning point in the Ptolemean Wars. Black Guard, designed for use with the Silent Death ™™ Metal Express ™ game, includes the following:

• Starcraft Displays for four new fighters and two new gunboats: including the Dart, Talon, Lance Electra, Sentry, Star Raven, and the awesome Betafortress.
• Revised and reissued Starcraft Displays for every fighter and gunboat which has appeared in Silent Death and Overkill. These new updated displays incorporate Optional Rule material, such as the number of Decoys carried and the quality of each vessel’s Point-Defense munition system.
• Historical Summaries and Orders of Battle for four new fighter wings: Black Guard and the Brothers Of Enmity fly for House Ptolemus, while Gale Force and Monsoon fight for the invading Colosians.
• Four new scenarios pit Ptolemean and Colosian forces against one another deep in the crucial Hathor system.
• Rules Annex #2 for Silent Death provides guidelines for playing this game in 3-D, using Point-Defense systems against Missile Salvos, and more.
• Color renderings of unit badges and more starcraft paint schemes.

Silent Death – Fighter Tactics Manual (ICE #7220)

“THERE I WAS…”
” …screaming down on the wounded Black Widow,” he said, raising his voice over the noise of the crowd. “Splattergun fire streaked past me, but I shrugged it off and closed letting loose with my Minigun. The slugs ripped wide the holes my missiles had already made in their sorry hide. As they ejected, I opened the com for one last taunt at the Widow’s poor, misguided crew…”
” Tell us-tell us what you said to them!” begged the crowd.
He smiled, savoring their undivided attention.
” I said: `Like my flight instructor always warned me, you Luches dogs…No matter the ship-never ever leave your wing man.'”

The Fighter Tactics Manual is a training guide for the new Silent Death player and also an enlightening refresher for battle hardened veterans.

• Kill zone diagrams for variable speed and maneuverable torpedoes
• New prices and optional rules for variable speed and maneuverable I torpedoes
• Six new Space fighters:
  • Bat
  • Black Widow
  • Nemesis
  • Shark
  • Chupacabra
  • Stinger

The Fighter Tactics Manual includes:

• 3 new righter Wings
• 3 new scenarios
• An easy-to-use torpedo dodging chart
• Guidelines on formation flying
• Tips on assigning crew and picking forces

Silent Death – Overkill (ICE #7011)

The star-spanning Province of Great House Ptolemus as been invaded by the Colosian Deep Space Fleet. Other war mongering hoards from the Black Plague and Behemoth war bands have staked their claim to Ptolemean worlds. The first provincial outposts have been overrun. Desperate pleas for help crackle over a far-flung net of Tachyon Beam Dictors Interstellar war is at hand.

Squadrons of fast, deadly starfighters fly in the vanguard of these conquering legions. Armed with Disruptoguns, Ion Rams, and “The Undisputed Right of Engagement,” they will get first crack at the enemy.

Overkill: The Ptolemean Wars is a grand campaign designed for the Silent Death Metal Express game. In here you will find
• Starcraft Displays for five new Silent Death fighters and two new gunboats: including the Blizzard, Kosmos, Hell Bender Death Wind, Glaive and Drakar
• Blank Starcraft Displays or designing your own Silent Death vessel.
• Complete background and .campaign maps for he Ptolemean Wars.
• Detailed histories and Orders of Battle for twelve: new Fighter Wings.
• Twelve challenging Silent Death scenarios and two campaigns.
• Rules Annex# 1 for Silent Death, which provides guidelines for new Cannons, Projectors, Warheads, Pilot Luck, Life Pods, Gunboat Class vessels and more.
A fume sheet of 180 new color counters displaying new fighters, torps, missiles and other Silent Death game markers.

Silent Death – Rules of Warfare (ICE #7218)

This is the Silent Death Supplement for running tournament and events.