3788 Scale Kzinti Light Dreadnought (DNL) SRZ

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.

One of the pre-General War “raiding dreadnoughts,” the two Kzinti light dreadnoughts were mediocre combat performers and their loss in combat was not regarded as a major catastrophe. There is some indication that the loss of the Lightning Fist was part of a deliberate plan to trap a Lyran force, using the
under-achieving light dreadnought as bait. Others feel that the Kzintis never used the ships to their full advantage and might have wrecked the Klingon invasion with selective raids on the Klingon supply chain. This ship has 300 spaces of spare drones stored in its cargo boxes in addition to the normal rack reloads; these are used by the dreadnought and the fleet that accompanied it. While fully capable of the drone bombardment mission (if supported by a scout to find targets), this ship was never used in that manner. This is said by Federation intelligence to be a major failing of the Kzinti war plan. This is a “fast ship” (in a strategic sense); in direct combat it is no faster than normal ships but has extra power to use for any purpose. Known names are Lightning Fist and Thundermark.

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.