285 Scale Kzinti Heavy Bomber MGL

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.

Were it not for the superior technology of gunboats, bombers (triple-sized and quadruple-sized fighters) might have been produced in vast numbers. The fact that no bomber could be operated by a ship (they were based only on planets) limited them to a footnote in the history of the late General War. Bombers had lots of weapons and were hard to kill, and were used for planetary defenses when there were not enough gunboats (which was all the time). Bombers were easier for colony planets to maintain as they were big shuttles rather than small starships. As bombers could not be used for strategic offensives, they did most of their duty in deterring raiders that knew attacking a colony planet meant more of a fight than was practical. Ironically, these particular units saw most of their combat during the Usurper’s War of Return, the last of the Kzinti civil wars. The Heavy Bomber carried four phaser-3s, two disruptors, six anti-ship drones, two anti-fighter drones, and four special drones.

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.