1985: ROMULAN SHIP RECOGNITION MANUAL from STAR TREK: THE ROLE PLAYING GAME (FASA)

From 1985: the ROMULAN SHIP RECOGNITION MANUAL supplement for the FASA-published STAR TREK: THE ROLE PLAYING GAME.

I'm not that much of an expert in Trek lore but I do know, in 1985, their screen appearances had been limited to a few episodes of the original series... where they were sometimes seen to be using Klingon warships because the cash-strapped production couldn't bankroll the new miniatures and effects work. That NuStar have made the job of writing this both easier (because they had something of a blank slate to work from) and harder (because they had to conceive a whole fleeting vessels based on scant screen time).

The end result is an enjoyable flight of fancy which sits nicely alongside the Federation and Klingon editions thet I've posted previously.