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Crit! Custom critical hit result charts, and optional rules for custom starcraft displays. |
This Page Last Updated: Thursday April 21, 2005
After nearly a year, I've finally obtained a copy of the HTML editor that I originally built this site with, and the one I'm most comfortable using (A big thanks to Sachinkumar Patel for his help!). Consequently I've begun the laborious task of converting the other pages to the new format and April's update has considerably less content then planned. I've managed to add some of the CSS features, and the nifty new navigation bar to all of the original pages, hopefully some of the navigation issues are now resolved.
A new section, Campaigns/ Scenarios has been added this month. Every SDannex update, a new skirmish or campaign scenario will be added for Silent Death players to try out.
"Peace in Our Time", a mini-campaign detailing an unprecedented offer a peace from House Colos the Sigurd Archdiocese. 'After years of mistrust, Colos extends the hand of peace to the Archdiocese. Does the white glove of friendship conceal a gauntlet of war?'
"Squish the Spider", a small skirmish scenario suggested by Leland Erickson. Can a patrol of Kosmos fend off the feared Black Widow? Will the pilots live to tell the tale?
"Battle of the Bugs", another small skirmish pitting an escorted Shuttle through Brood infested space. The grubs send a team of Larva to count coup, can the Terrans escape with their lives?
"The 75 Point Solution", following a discussion over custom ship displays on the metal-express forums three player-designed custom ships face off on a challenge for stellar supremacy. Decide who is the top dog of starcraft design.
Crit! Ever create your own custom starcraft displays, but the critical hit chart doesn't really seem appropriate? This article presents an optional ruleset for creating your own critical hit results chart that falls within the context of the official Silent Death starcraft. Build your own craft as per the ship design system in the Next Millennium rulebook, and select from the tables of critical hit results for the best choice for your own unique design. Includes rules for critical hit balancing, a summary of the more common official critical hit results, and several new optional quirks appropriate to critical hits.
Metal-express.net (Link) has gone live as of March 4th, 2005. The new site, courtesy of Iron Crown Enterprises, has a ton of new Silent Death features!
"MX (our shorthand for Metal-Express) is a website dedicated to miniatures and miniature games. We won't try to cover every mini or game out there, but we will cover a few games and their miniatures in depth and provide a general reference base for the hobby. Right now are selling and supporting Iron Crown Enterprises' Silent Death and Bladestorm as well as Holistic Design, Inc.'s Noble Armada, Fantasy Encounters, and Carnage. We will be adding more manufactures and product lines over the next few months, so check back often!" - From metal.express.net intro page.
Currently, there are online forums, ship galleries, game reviews, how-to articles, and links to other Silent Death material found on the site. Metal-express.net went live with little fanfare or notice, but the plan is to expand the site greatly in the very near future. According to Bruce Neidlinger, CEO of Iron Crown Enterprises,
"We kept it low key at first on purpose to let things break in. We have started running banner ads on ENWorld and will expand that rapidly. We will not be a quiet site, hehe."
Several people requested the flyer on the Silent Death inspired toys, offered through USToy, posted on last month's SDannex update. Paul Simon placed an order of these plastic miniatures and has offered these observations,
"You might remember I wrote you recently regarding these ships. My order arrived today, and since you mentioned you did not get a description from someone who actually bought them, here goes...
My first impression - a fantastic deal and well worth the money. The ships came packaged in 12s. You get one of each of the 10 ships, plus two more random duplicates. I seem to have received a lot of nighthawks, which is fine with me...my favorite ship. They are either silver or gold plastic...the 2 types of 'hawks, talon, tbird, and viper are always gold. The other 5 ship types are (obviously) silver. They have a few details like the canopy, engines, guns, etc painted in. Not very neat, but painted nonetheless. The plastic is somewhat rubbery, but stiff enough to hold it's shape. On most ships, only the wingtips are flexible. The Electra and the 'bender torps are noticeably more bendy, but I'm sure you can guess why. As far as painting them, a person might be able to do it. I'd wash them first, then spray on primer and the paint should stick well. I bet if you flex them too much the paint might start to flake off though...maybe not. If a person was really worried about it they could paint them with flexible paint like that used or R/C car bodies. Then it would never flake off, as I experience when hitting walls and such with my RC car. A standard SD base could be used to mount the ships without it falling over too much.
One last thing I thought funny - two of the ships have the hole molded in for the SD base. Looks like they really were serious about copying the designs."
Warmest thanks to Paul on the information! This outstanding deal was recently discovered for Silent Death Miniatures! USToy.com is offering, through their online store, plastic replicas of 10 Silent Death standard ships:
These plastic
miniatures are over 2 ¼” wide, made of soft plastic, in simple
colors (Gold, silver, with colored cockpits, engines, and small details). While
they resemble the standard ships found in Silent Death: The Next Millennium
rulebook, they lack bases and are a knock-off of the original sculptures. (Thank
the Chinese.)
The minis sell for an incredible $1.95 for 1 dozen plastic toys! USToy.com is offering these minis as plastic spaceship toys for children, but fans of Silent Death can easily scoop these low cost toys up, paint, mount, and they would form the backbone of 2:1 sized miniatures for play.
USToy’s legal notice does not permit the posting of any link to their pages, and a request to post such a link and an image of the Silent Death toys was not returned. I’ll honor their policies, although why on earth they would ignore anyone driving business to them simply escapes me at the moment. if anyone should like a link to the USToy page where these can be found, I’ve prepared a flyer with all of the pertinent details and will reply it via email to anyone who requests it. Send it to me!
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