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The Iguana is such a cool model that I want to get it, paint it and use it in games! But I'm struggling a bit with list design...
this is what I've come up with so far, but it's very light on specialists and they are mostly just FOs...

The idea is to bully the board with the HMGs, with the tsyklon for support and bringing the hellcat in for disruption/sniper assasination. Then the jaguars help cover the advance of the squishy specialists so they can do their thing. The second jaguar is for reserve when the first one dies and for providing smoke for intruder AROs.

Any input is appreciated!

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Group 1 10 0 0
IGUANA HMG, Heavy Flamethrower / . (2 | 71)
TSYKLON Spitfire, Marker / Electric Pulse. (1 | 33)
INTRUDER HMG, Grenades / Pistol, CCW. (1.5 | 42)
INTERVENTOR Hacker Lieutenant (Hacking Device Plus) Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 25)
ZERO (Forward Observer) Combi Rifle, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (19)
ZERO (Forward Observer) Combi Rifle, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (19)
ALGUACIL (Forward Observer, Deployable Repeater) Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (12)
ALGUACIL (Forward Observer, Deployable Repeater) Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (12)
JAGUAR Chain Rifle, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, DA CCW. (10)
HELLCAT Boarding Shotgun / Pistol, Knife. (21)

Group 2 2 0 0
REAKTION ZOND HMG / Electric Pulse. (1 | 26)
JAGUAR Chain Rifle, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, DA CCW. (10)

6 SWC | 300 Points

Open with Army 5

I think you've tried to put in too many killing models that want to use up orders.

Having the Iguana, Intruder, Tsyklon and Hellcat in the same combat group is too many, especially trying to run your specialists from there as well.

Given the Iguana is the basis for the list he's going to stay, and I'd take out two of the other 3. The Tsyklon could become a FO bot and an 8 pt sniffer bot for example, which would help expand both your Repeater net, add a specialist, and give you some anti-camo stuff if you drop the Intruder.

The Hellcat is interesting. While he's out, he's not giving you an order in a list that's not huge on orders. If you bring him on first turn, that's when opponents are normally the best prepared for him. You can often get a similar result from a Tomcat with specialist versatility as well. The Tomcat Engineer is my favourite, as it makes Sabotage almost automatic. OTOH, at least he gives you a different attack vector.

That's a fair point, I like the Hellcat because sometimes I get "stuck" when a corridor gets shut down because of some hard to remove threat and it's nice to have another vector as you say.

I could drop the Tsyklon for a clockmaker, he is a WIP15 specialist with D charges and I would have enough points to either add another alguacilFO or upgrade one of the Zeros to something else...I'll think about it

AD troops are excellent "vector openers", and Hellcats are potentially well-armed to do so and very reliable in their Superior Combat Jump drop.

A Tsyklon is a very mobile, offensive model with good firepower of the Spitfire. I would like to have something like that in my list (though I usually go with Lunokhod, which is geared for close-in combat and less effective for Hacker support - but also cheaper) because otherwise you would be relying only on your Iguana for mobile firepower, and Iguana is rather delicate for a TAG (and, being a TAG, it is going to attract a lot of firepower). Having two Camo Infiltrators (Zeros) is still good, though.