Re: Silent Death minis [OT]

At 10:07 PM 10/12/98 +0100, Oerjan Ohlson wrote:
>
>BTW, Tom - RAFM has pictures of (most) of the Silent Death (Next
>Millenium) ships on their homepage now. Unfortunately their names for
the
>models don't always correspond to what ICE calls them, but the product
>numbers seem to be correct.

The problem there is the differences between the original Silent Death
rules and the newer edition of the rules; Silent Death: The Next
Millenium.

In the new edition, ICE redesigned several of the ships, but kept the
old
names.	The artwork in the new books and the new miniatures look
completely
different that they used to.

To further confuse the issue, the older line of RAFM minis had serial
numbers starting with 09xx and the newer line has serial numbers
starting
with 06xx.  Which means that contrary to normal logic, the lower numbers
are newer than the higher numbers.

And finally to completely confuse everything, ICE has recently been
"recycling" some of the art and minis from the original rules under new
names.	

For example, the original "Betafortress" gunboat (the square, blocky
one)
mini was RAFM stock #0924.  It was replaced with a new (very ugly) mini
also called a "Betafortress" (RAFM stock #0624).  Recently, the original
mini for the "Betafortress" has been re-issued as the new "Nemesis"
gunboat
(RAFM stock #0689).

Confused now?  :)

Jeff