This article originally appeared in Pyramid #21
SILENT DEATH: The Next Millennium
Published by Iron Crown Enterprises
Original Design by Kevin Barrett
Next Millennium Design by Matt Forbeck
$50.00Let's face it. $50 is a lot to pay for a game these days.
Or is it? Fifty bucks is well below average by CD-ROM or Playstation standards. And those aren't packed full of some of the neatest starship miniatures this side of Alpha Centuri.
I'll admit it. I'm a sucker for a box full of Neat Stuff. And that's what first drew me to Silent Death: the Next Millennium. Forty-eight (count 'em) lil' rokkit ships that almost come bursting out of the box. That's just over $1 per miniature. Even if nothing else came with the set, that's not bad.
But it comes with a lot more.
There are the plastic missiles and torpedoes, for example. And the maps, and the starcraft displays. And, of course, a 168-page "Rulebook." The word is used advisedly, simply because the actual rules are only about 40 pages long. The rest of the hefty tome is taken up with source material, updating players on what's happened to Silent Death's various warring factions since the last edition was out. There are also sections on the starships themselves, how to create new ships, as well as lots of starcraft statistics, charts, and diagrams.
I never played the original Silent Death, so I can't really compare the new version with the old. But I do know I'd glance with envy at the dozens of brightly-painted starcraft Silent Death players would wield at conventions. . . .
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Article publication date: September 1, 1996
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