Name: Iguan
Alignment: Zenebas and Guylos Empires
Family: Iguanodon
Registration Number: EZ-017
Crew: 1
Height: 8.2 Meters
Length: 10.4 Meters
Weight: 23.6 Tons
Top Speed: 200 kph
Weapons: Quad 20mm Beam Cannons, Dual 20mm Anti-Aircraft Cannons, Quad Proto-Impact Cannon, Hardened Alloy Crusher Claw.
Special Abilities: None.
Level: 1
The Iguan, little brother of the Heldigunner, was the standard infantry type Zoid of the Zenebas Empire, back in the day. Easy to use and even easier to produce, Iguans were once churned out by the bucketful and put on the frontlines as cannon fodder. They once operated alongside other Imperial small-scale Zoids like the Molga and Malder in a bid to wipe the Godos from the field of battle. Of course, the Iguan’s creation and introduction was just one step in an extremely long chain of new Zoids and new technology that made up the Republican-Imperial War.
The Iguan is lightly armored, hovering somewhere between the Guysack and the Rev Raptor in terms of toughness. However, it makes up for this with its personal firepower contribution, which actually fairly decent. The catch is that its most powerful weapon is the Quad Proto-Impact Cannon, usable only at short range. Despite this, the Iguan is reasonably powerful for a Zoid of its size.
Weapons:
Quad 20mm Beam Cannons:
The Iguan really doesn’t have a single primary ranged weapons, but has four of the same caliber spread around its body. There’s one on its head, one on its right arm, and one on either side of the tail. The head-mounted gun can pivot up to 30 degrees up or down. The tail-mounted guns must pivot together, but can pivot up to 45 degrees up or down. The one on the arm can’t pivot independently, but it’s essentially there instead of a hand, so it’s got a good range of motion. All of these four weapons are semiautomatic, and otherwise standard.
Dual 20mm Anti-Aircraft Cannons:
The Iguan has two 20mm Anti-Aircraft Cannons, curiously attached to the top of its tail. Although they rest on the tail, they can both pivot up to 90 degrees vertically, allowing them to fire at passing aircraft. Each shell explodes at a certain preset altitude (dialed in by the pilot from the cockpit) into a cloud of shrapnel, which can shred and tear wings. The fuses can be turned off, making them standard 20mm cannons, but they face only where the tail does.
Quad Proto-Impact Cannon:
Mounted and fixed to the Hardened Alloy Crusher Claw are a set of four prototype impact cannons. They’re extremely small, only AZ15mms, but otherwise operate in the exact same way you’d expect a normal semiautomatic Impact Cannon to. They’re powerful against other Zoids of the Iguan’s class, but are limited in range to 100 meters.
Hardened Alloy Crusher Claw:
The Iguan doesn’t have the standard melee equipment. Instead, it curiously has a single Crusher Claw on its left arm. This claw can’t pierce, tear, or rip, but instead simply applies pressure and crushes whatever it’s holding. However, the Crusher Claw can only hold an object 2 meters across or under, so it’s of limited and dubious usefulness. On the plus side, the pressure the claw applies is reasonable, and can even structurally damage Zoids significantly larger than the Iguan.
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