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The fleet ready for action - GenCon 2007
Silent Death
A game of Silent Death in the miniatures room at Origins Game Fair 2009.
The fleet ready for action - GenCon 2007

Silent Death (1990)

Players
2–8
Best: 2, 4
Playing time
120–120 min
Age
10+
7.00
Average rating
408
Ratings
2.73/5
Weight
#6284
BGG rank
Outside top 5,000
Designer:Kevin Barrett
Artist:Darrell Midgette, William Hyde, Raymond Rubin, Angus McKie
Publisher:Iron Crown Enterprises
Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).
Game DNA
  • This game: Strategy 7, Luck 7, Interaction 5, Complexity 5.5, Theme 6
Strategy7.0
Luck7.0
Interaction5.0
Complexity5.5
Theme6.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

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Overview

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.

Re-implemented in:

Silent Death: The Next Millennium Deluxe Edition

Expansions

Silent Death Expansion: Night Brood
Silent Death: Black Guard – The Ptolemean Wars Continue
Silent Death: Overkill – The Ptolemean Wars
Silent Death Annex: Operation – Dry Dock II
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