Iguana, Loudmouth
Overview and History

Vehicle Specifications   General Stats
Name: Iguana, Loudmouth   Threat Value: 872
Vehicle Type: Walker   Offensive Value: 127
Production Type: Limited Production   Defensive Value: 462
Cost: 2,906,666.67 dinars   Miscellaneous Value: 2,025
Manufacturer: Skavara Heavy Industries   Size: 6
Use: Recon   Original Default Size: 10
Height: 4.1 meters   Indv. Lemon Dice: 2
Length: 2.9 meters   Crew: 1
Width: 3.4 meters   Bonus Actions: 0
Avg. Armor Thickness: 40mm
Armor Material: Armoplast   Armor
Standard Op. Weight: 5100 kg   Light Damage: 14
Primary Move Mode: Walker (52 kph)   Heavy Damage: 28
Secondary Move Mode: Ground (83 kph)   Overkill: 42
Deployment Range: 680 km
Sensor Range: 4 km   Vehicle Availability
Communication Range: 50 km   Availability Threshhold: 6
Powerplant: V-Engine   Max Number on Field: 1
Engine Output: 360hp  
    Movement
Electronics   Primary Move Mode: Walker
Sensors: +1   Combat Speed: 5
Communications: +3   Top Speed: 9
Fire Control: 0   Secondary Move Mode: Ground
    Combat Speed: 7
    Top Speed: 14
    Maneuver: +1

Weapons
Quantity Name Code Arc ACC Damage Range ROF Ammo Special
 1
 Deployable Pack Gun
 DPG
 F
 -1
 x8
 2/4/8/16
 +2
 30
 Dis
 1
 Anti-Personnel Grenade Launcher
 APGL
 F
 -1
 x3
 1/2/4/8
 
 6
 AE0, AI, IF
 1
 Vibroblade
 VB
 F
 0
 x8
 0/0/0/0
 
 0
 

Perks
Name Rating Game Effects AUX
 Backup Communications
 
 Absorbs first "Communications" hit
 
 Backup Sensors
 
 Absorbs first "Sensors" hit
 
 ECM
 2
 Offensive Electronic Warfare equipment
 AUX
 ECCM
 3
 Defensive Electronic Warfare equipment
 AUX
 HEP: Desert
 
 -
 
 High Capacity Computer
 
 Advanced and powerful data processing system
 
 Laboratories.c
 
 Cryptography (adds to skill)
 
 Manipulator Arm x2
 6
 Can punch
 
Flaws
Name Rating Game Effects
 Vulnerable to Haywire Effects
 
 Haywire gets 3 rolls on damage tables.
 Annoyance
 
 Cramped cockpit; max pilot BLD 0
Defects
Name Rating Game Effects

Variants
There are no variants.

Designer Notes
The advanced MERIT sensor and communications system designed by Obelisk Electronics for use in the Chatterbox electronic support variant of the Iguana opened up new possibilities for Gear-based communications and electronic warfare platforms. While the Chatterbox is considered an excellent design for ensuring battlefield communications and performing electronic warfare operations, further refinements became necessary as more specialized operational roles were envisioned. The Loudmouth was born to meet the demands of the propoganda/psychological warfare specialists of the Republican Army who saw a highly mobile and powerful communications platform as the perfet instrument for delivering prepared broadcasts into enemy territory. With this mission in mind, the Loudmouth was designed using the Chatterbox as a base, but with a specially designed MERIT 3200 electronics package. This system features reduced sensor and ECM capabilities in exchange for increased ECCM and communications power, ensuring clear long-range broadcasts in almost all conditions. The military insisted that the Loudmouth have a military role as well and the powerful communications suite was supplemented by a dedicated cryptography computer system designed by Aardman Electronics, making the Gear a powerful communications, observation, and intelligence-gathering platform. The inclusion of supplemental medium- and long-range antennae did require the removal of the Chatterbox's satellite communications dish, however.