Just looking at the list and had never realised before that the zondcats are only with certain weapon profiles (planning to use multi rifle engineer) so wondered if they can bring along a normal zondbot instead. I assume so as it doesn't seem limited, but Im also assuming the Tomcat then wouldn't be able to use parachutist to deploy?
Correct, Servant and controller must deploy at the same time, so if you give a Tomcat a Zondbot they both have to deploy normally, the Tomcat can't use Parachutist.