By Sheldon Greaves

Rob’s Tabletop World is a YouTube channel with over 13,400 subscribers where the host, Rob reviews the kinds of old school games we all know and love. Check out his review of Silent Death:

And as if that weren’t enough, he also has some very kind things to say about our prototype Campaign System:

We’d like to offer a huge shout-out to Rob for his kind words, and for telling the rest of the Internet about Silent Death.

“M’lord Grand Admiral, Sir?!”

Yes? What is it now?!”

“This just in from Intel Branch, M’lord! Assets report a heavy freighter, Narwhal class jumped out of the Dallas-Fort Worth system. Analyses of their vector places the ship on a direct course for our system, with an ETA of about 36 hours! Assets also reported that a short transmission was made in the clear just before the ship entered hyperspace. The transcript provided by Intel says that the message was ‘As three is to one.’ Intel chief told me that you would understand it’s meaning… Shall I alert the defense grid?”

“Yes! Make sure that our fighter patrols are doubled, and that they know not to open fire on this ship, but to assume a prompt close escort around it and bring it here directly!”

“M’lord?”

“You heard me! Now get moving, Leftenant! Get those instructions out by a secure channel, and fast so some trigger-happy glory-seeker doesn’t blast that ship into isotopes! We need what it is carrying, and we need it yesterday! Now MOVE!”

“Aye-aye, Sir!”

Somewhere out on the Colosian side of the no-go zone between House Colos and the Q’raj Void Protectorate, two Colosian Stosstruppen stand guard in the hangar bay of Outpost 45003. It is the “night” shift. They are the only two personnel present other than the supremely bored Ready Flight pilots, who have fallen asleep in their folding recliner chairs across from their Shark interceptors.

“So I told her that I was going to get the promotion one way or another, even if I had to take that idiot captain to the dueling circle to get it done! I mean, I *am* the son of a noble family, dammit, and I’ll be damned if I’m not going to leverage tha… hey! What was that?!”

“What was what?”

“I thought I saw something go buzzing past outside, looked like a trio of ships! Scut fighters!”

“Oh, puu-leaaase! Don’t tell me you’ve been hitting the bottle again!”
“No! I’m serious! And they didn’t look like ours at all! So why the Hell hasn’t the alert sounded?! I mean, we should wake those lazy twits up and send them out there to go after them!”

“Oh, will you just stop it!”

“But, I really did see…!”

“Shut. Up! Get a grip, man! If there was anything out there, the sensor net would have picked it up long before your sorry ass would have seen it, and you damn well know it!”

“Um. Yeah. I suppose you’re right… nothing ever does happen around here, and we both know that that will never change any time soon!”

“Ya see? You’re just fed up and bored like the rest of us. Brass are always promisin’ new this and something combat action that, and it never happens! We just gotta own it, this here tin pot we’re standing in is the absolute forgotten tin can by the road in the middle of nowhere. Those Q’rajis are too damned smart anyway to waste throwing a rock at us, let alone actually sending a fighter patrol out our way!”

“You’re right! Damn, I am sooo bored!”

“Me too! So why don’t we figure out how we’re gonna pass this shift without going barking mad! I say we prank those two spoiled brats over there! And I happen to have a brand new can of shaving creme me dear old mother sent me for such a special occasion as this!”

PLUS: THIS JUST IN!! NEWS AND UPDATES REGARDING
THE 3 TO 1 SCALE SHIP MODELS!!!

That’s right, Space Possums! It’s that time of year again! So we begin our update today with the start of our 2019 Pre Turkey Turkey Shoot Sale!!

Starting TODAY all ships minis metal and plastic are 20% OFF from now until Midnight PST December 31st!

So now is the time to reenforce your existing galaxy conquering squadrons, of start that space pirate swarm you’ve been itching to put together!!

Just use the code: turk2019 when you checkout of the Metal Express webstore, and remember, always watch for the Colosian diving on your from out of a wormhole!

NEWS AND UPDATES:

So we were very much excited about the idea of releasing the classic 3 to 1 scale resin models and funding that effort via Kickstarter. But as in all things new, there is a learning curve involved here. So we ran into a number of roadblocks we simply must address before we can even hope to proceed with anything quite so ambitious. So, we go to Plan B.

Plan B is in its own way a bit more ambitious. We’ve never been particularly happy with the metal Warhound models for two reasons. Firstly, the size. The metal Warhound miniatures next to our regular fighter miniatures are just too confounded dinky. Being so small by comparison, they frankly lack presence, the presence a bunch of fighter pilots being confronted with a lumbering 10,000 ton destroyer should experience fear and loathing over upon sighting. The other issues is the clumsiness of having a model precariously perched on two separate flight stands.

Now for those of you who have played with Warhounds on your board, you know what we’re talking about. So we aim to fix this state of affairs, starting with a larger Fletcher model, a beast cast in resin that sits on a two hex flight stand arrangement that makes the fighter minis look, well, rather mini by comparison.

We’ll have more details next week as to how precisely we’re going to proceed with this project, but for now, let’s be clear on this: the masters have already begun to be cut, and they look just yummy!

Cheers!

The Metal Express Team

Metal Express — https://silent-death.mx

Press Release – for Immediate Distribution

Dateline: 19 November 2019

New Silent Death Miniatures to Be Released

Kickstarter campaign seeks to put extremely rare oversized spaceship minis back into production.

Metal Express is planning a Kickstarter campaign to resume production of large resin-cast versions of the miniatures from the popular tabletop science fiction space combat game, Silent Death. Originally developed by Iron Crown Enterprises, these ships were part of an effort to enhance the game by offering ships that were three times the size of the original minis. Unfortunately, only a few ships were ever produced, and in very small numbers. Today they are nearly impossible to find.

Now, Metal Express, which has continued selling Silent Death since the bankruptcy of Iron Crown, is turning to crowd-funding to make these ships available once again, including many that never saw production. “We discovered the masters during a recent move of our operations to Oregon,” says Leland Erickson, one of the partners running Metal Express. “If we can pull the funding together, we can offer these beautiful ships alongside our regular line of minis.” Erickson adds, “our funding campaign has an advantage because we don’t need to cover the expense of creating the masters. We have those in hand, right now. The funding will go towards creating molds and setting up production.”

Veteran mini sculptor and producer Chris Lynch has agreed to lend his expertise for making the molds and taking on production once the molds are complete. 

Erickson is excited about what’s to come; “This campaign is just the beginning, something to get us started. We have literally dozens of ships, most of which were never produced, that we hope to get out there for Silent Death fans who haven’t been able to buy them in almost two decades.”

Metal Express has not yet finalized the date or the terms of the Kickstarter campaign, but will make an announcement soon.  

All inquiries should be directed to Mr. Erickson at the contact information given below:

Email:                      blackwidowpilot@mac.com

Facebook:            https://www.facebook.com/SilentDeathTNM/

Instagram:           #Silent_Death_Metal_Express

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3 to 1 Scale Resin Models! Help Us bring ‘Em Back!

That’s right, we are 100% serious, we have a resin caster, we have masters, and we’re gonna light this candle next month on Kickstarter!

We will begin our Kickstarter campaign on the third week in November after the good Dr. Greaves and his lovely spouse return from a trip overseas to lands ancient and historical. Upon his return we hit the launch button, and we’re off!

We have recovered masters of virtually all of the Core Ships, and we have all of the Night Brood ships, *and* we have masters for a whole bunch of extras, from gunboats to many of the Colosian, Tokugawan, and Draconian ships introduced in House Colos and Hangar 51. Further, we plan a penultimate Stretch Goal, a 3 to 1-sh model of the Fletcher class destroyer. Yes, an 8 inch long monster to provide a truly terrifying presence in your Silent Death games being mastered by veteran designer Chris Lunch of Ravenstar Studio!

So watch this space, and we encourage you to like us on FaceBook, and follow us on Instagram for further updates!

Cheers!

The Metal Express Team

Yup. It’s a Sale! From today until July 31, 2019 all orders of ship miniatures and one off models are 20% off!

So don’t just sit there! Grab yer helmets and head for the flightline! Those ain’t bogies! Those are bandits and they’re inbound fast!

And no sooner does the Lion of Eire launch on her maiden combat patrol voyage, she picks up a massive ripple in the space-time continuum!! It can mean only one thing… a terrible thing! It’s……

*****A SALE!!! A FLASH SALE!!! A MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND SALE AT METAL EXRESS!!!!!*****

20% OFF ON ALL ORDERS FOR MINIATURES AND CUSTOM MODELS!! SALE CODE: SDMem2019

CODE EXPIRES TUESDAY, SO SCRAMBLE YOUR READY FLIGHTS NOW!!!

To all of our loyal customers and fans of Silent Death, Happy Holidays and a prosperous New Year full of high Attack Die rolls! May your opponents always blow their Tight Turn rolls, and we’ll see you all on the other side of the intergalactic wormhole!👍😎👍