Product Description
The Kzintis are a species of eight-foot-tall felines; the Klingons call them "tigermen." They are adjacent to the Federation (and have fought two major wars with them, losing both) and the Klingons (and have fought several wars with them, winning a few and losing a few). Kzinti ships are armed with disruptors, phasers, and drones. They have more drones on their standard warships than any other empire, and forests of phaser-3s, because their ships are designed to fight each other. (They have had more civil wars than foreign wars.) They are enemies of the Klingons and Lyrans and allies of convenience with the Hydrans and Federation.
The pressure of constant Klingon attacks during the first five years of the General War forced the Kzintis to produce their diminutive frigate far longer than it could effectively serve in the fleet. Once the Klingons diverted their attention to the Federation, the Kzintis found time to convert shipyards for the frigate to produce to superb war destroyer, which was the equal of the Lyran war destroyer and the superior of the Klingon F5 frigate. The Klingons are thought to have built the F5W war destroyer specifically to match this ship and the Federation war destroyer. The Kzinti War Destroyer became the most-produced ship class of the Kzinti Fleet during the General War, and it was produced in a dozen variants including scouts, escorts, mobile carriers, patrol carriers (with more fighters but fewer weapons than mobile carriers), commando ships, minesweepers, fast cargo transports, small gunboat tenders, drone bombardment and drone combat types, as well as squadron leaders.
The ship is available in a variety of materials. Ships are unpainted, use standard flight stands available from many sources, and, while designed for gaming, make fine display pieces.