> On 25/05/2014 21:51,  Phil Pugliese (via tml list) wrote:

 > And yet, at least according to CT's 'Fighting Ships', the class is no
 > longer in production.

Tigress and her classmates are bit multirole 'do everything' vessels,
and are thus really expensive compared to a smaller ship that only does
the 'shooty' and doesn't have its own fighter complement. Thus Tigress
is a very powerful ship, and great for showing the flag and frontier
patrols in areas that might get hot of a sudden, but she's not the sort
of ship you want many of - better to buy a few and then spend the rest
of the budget on less glamorous ships. Then there's that shift in
doctrine to battle riders and tenders, and to hell with the frontier
systems (it's not like they pay much in the way of taxes anyway).