Alignment: Imperial
Registration Number: EZ-017
Height: 8.2 Meters
Length: 10.4 Meters
Weight: 23.6 Tons
Top Speed: 200 Kilometers per Hour
Weapons: Robotic Gripper Claw, Six 20mm Cannons (one on each shoulder, two pivitable ones on the base of the tail, two more pivitable ones on the tip of the tail), quad mortar launcher (replacing other gripper claw)
Special Abilities: None
The Iguan was created to be a step up from the Godos. Guylos spies made off with the design schematics of the Godos, and Guylos engineers made it into a fairly impressive front-line Zoid. It obviously shares many characteristics with the Godos, from its upright stance to the majority of its weaponry.
However, the Empire also gave it a relatively powerful impact gun to replace one of the gripper claws, and attached a booster unit to the back, accounting for the speed difference between the Iguan and Godos. Thus, the Iguan has quite a bit of firepower and maneuverability for its size, as well as a lot of speed for its size. Not only that, but it has far better armor coverage than the Godos; only the chest is really uncovered, which helps to make up for the fact that the armor it has isn't quite as thick as that of the Godos.
Weapons:
Various 20mm Beam Cannons
The Iguan has four of these; one on the head, one on the right arm, and two on the tail. The one on the head is really the only one that can move, but it can move from front to back by angling upwards. The other three are capable of moving with the limb they're attached to. In any case, these are standard beam weapons, firing at semi-auto.
Dual AA 20mm Flak Gun
These are similar to those on the Godos, except they are of more utility, being mounted on the tail rather than the back. They're able to incline, for one thing, from upwards to the rear. Otherwise, they're identical to the ones on the Godos, firing flak ammunition that bursts into a cloud of shrapnel due to a timed detonator, and are quite good against aerial targets and other lightly-armored Zoids for that reason.
Quad Impact Gun
In many ways, this is the predecessor to the much more powerful impact cannons found on later Zoids. Mounted in place of the Iguan's left gripper claw, it fires shells that blast apart on impact, doing considerable (for the time, anyway) damage to a Zoid's armor or body structure. Of course, those on the Iguan are very small, and thus are limited in utility; also, the accuracy and power of the weapon drops significantly as the range passes 100 meters.
Gripper Claw
The Iguan's single remaining gripper claw is exactly like that on the Godos. It's capable of moving objects out of the way of the Iguan, but not too much more than that; even so, it's possible to find a use for it in battle.