[FT] Silent Death Ships

I wondered if anyone could give me a review of the Silent Death ships?

Silent Death ships (from I.C.E.) are designed to be fighters, so they often
have canopies. And the size is about right for Destroyer to Cruiser. Other
than that, they are nice. Especially the Night Brood. Before the official
release of the Sa'Vasku, I used the Night Brood minis for my Sa'Vasku fleet.
Of the non-Night Brood set, they are still nice, but you need to be a
little picker due to the obvious fighter designs.

When I was first playing FT, I used Silent Death miniatures for all my ships.

While the canopies and cockpits make the ships appear to be fighter sized, it
wouldn't be hard to change them to sensor domes or file them off. The main
reason to get them is cost. 5 SD fighters which are frigate size used to
retail for about $4.50 Canadian, compared to 2 or 3 frigates from GeoHex for
$8.50 Canadian. Since then, SD products have gone up and KR has repackaged
things with more ships in a blister to be more competitive.

The key things for an SD fleet is size limitations. The miniatures get no
smaller than a frigate, I'd say, and the biggest gun boat is still a heavy
cruiser or battlecruiser. The SD warhounds (some nice, some not so nice) can
make functional carriers and battle dreadnoughts (a touch smallish for
superdreadnoughts and fleet carriers). However, the warhounds have two bases,
so you'll need to get out the drill and a dab of putty if you use them for FT
(or just make the front post the measuring point). As an aside,
the AOG B5Wars scale miniatures frequently have the same 2-post problem.

> At 12:49 AM 8/8/00 -0700, you wrote:

A lot of them are obviously out of scale, but others make excellent merchant
ships and free traders. I've got pictures of some of the one that I use.

http://www.geocities.com/johnxcrim/GalleryShip2.html