Silent
Death
Black Guard: The Ptolemean Wars Continue
Stock #: 7012
ISBN: 1-55806-115-0
Published 1990 by Iron Crown Enterpises
Cover Price: $9.00
Page Count: 44
Cover/Jacket Text:
BLACK GUARD:
THE PTOLEMEAN WARS CONTINUE
" Let Operation Hurricane Begin!"
With these words, Marshal Beznikov ushered in the final Colosian assault on
the Ptolemean Homeworld.
As chronicled in the first Silent Death expansion, Overkill, the dire Ptolemean
Wars began with invasions from Houses Colos and Dneprodzerkutsk. Now, after
nearly a year of desperate fighting, the Colosian Fleet is ready to take the
capital of House Ptolemus in one final, cataclysmic battle.
Is the fate of House Ptolemus sealed? Will it pass into the void, cast out
of the Imperium as a depleted renegade power?
Not if their last few fighter pilots have anything to say about it!
Black Guard chronicles the climactic battle which closes out Imperial Year
475 and marks a significant turning point in the Ptolemean Wars. Black
Guard, designed for use with the Silent Death ™™ Metal Express
™ game, includes the following:
•
Starcraft Displays for four new fighters and two new gunboats: including
the Dart™, Talon™, Lance Electra™, Sentry™, Star Raven™,
and the awesome Betafortress™. *
• Revised and reissued Starcraft Displays for every fighter and gunboat
which has appeared in Silent Death and Overkill. These new updated displays incorporate
Optional Rule material, such as the number of Decoys carried and the quality
of each vessel's Point-Defense munition system.
• Historical Summaries and Orders of Battle for four new fighter wings:
Black Guard and the Brothers Of Enmity fly for House Ptolemus, while Gale Force
and Monsoon fight for the invading Colosians.
• Four new scenarios pit Ptolemean and Colosian forces against one another
deep in the crucial Hathor system.
• Rules Annex #2 for Silent Death provides guidelines for playing this
game in 3-D, using Point-Defense systems against Missile Salvos, and more.
• Color renderings of unit badges and more starcraft paint schemes.