The Fowler Fic War Series 4

[kodster]

The Fowler Fic War Series 4

Tactics and predictions!

Heat 1

Wedga Revo (1) V A Night At The Bar V Raging Knightmare

Go for the champ and keep flipping him. Team up with Martijn if he wants to.

Black Panther (17) V SUNCUST V Super Speed Bump€™s Baby

Black Panther is definitely going through here. Out of the two, I dunno.

Heat winner: Black Panther Queen, or Wedga Revo if I dont defeat him.

Heat 2

Whirligig 4.0 (3) V Hydra V Die Ceratops Re-Invertus

Attack whoever comes nearest to me. Specifically attack Die-Ceratops from the sides.

Tough As Nails (19) V Mortgage V Psyclonised

Mortgage out.

Heat winner: Psyclonized or Whirligig. Whoevers the better spinner.

Heat 3

The Disc 5 (5) V Super Gore TD V Back to Rock 2

Eep. :P I can just tell Im going to get teamed up on here. And if thats the case, then Ill attack The Disc. Go straight for his weapon. Hopefully my larger disc should do some sort of damage to his. Avoid Back to Rock if possible. If not, charge him with the rear wedge.

Killotine:Evo (21) V Orka Mk 4 V Malaria

Malaria is really an underestimated bot here. I think Orka is the one to go out here.

Heat winner: Killotine Evo

Heat 4

Barberous 2 n€™ a bit (7) V The Epidemic V Disco 5

If Martyn wants, we can team up. Whether or no, just smash Barberous wheels. An attack on the spinning drum doesnt sound too bad either considering what Hypno-Disc did to him, and that Epidemic is a more-powerful FBS. :wink:

Dantomkia (23) V Gravity V Calm Down Dear It€™s Only A Robot

Dave to go out.

Heat winner: I like my chances in this heat, but Disco is very powerful. Either him or me.

Heat 5

Leprosy Infection (9) V Bulldog Breed V Scorpion Bite

Scorpion Bite, another underestimated bot. Bulldog Breed to go out.

Flick of the Wrist (25) V Disco Inferno V Tornado

Flick is going through here. Possibly Disc-O Inferno will get shoved aside here.

Heat winner: Scorpion Bite or Flick.

Heat 6

Tengu (11) V NSBFR-X V Liar

Baaaaaaad match for Liar. Unless Frank and Alex attack each other the entire match. Liar to go out.

Wild Thing (27) V The Deer V Axeon

I like Wild Thing, but that wont save him. Wild Thing out.

Heat winner: Tengu

Heat 7

Typhoon 2 (13) V IDSFA V Sheer Heart Attack

Sheeeeeeeeer Heart Attack. The RW7 champ to bite the dust.

Hypnodisc (29) V Mega Hurts: LT V Crash Bandibot

Mega Hurts to feel the hurt.

Heat winner: Sheer Heart Attack

Heat 8

Axe to Fall (15) V The Crashing Bore V Flank Attack

Tough call. Anybodys game, Id say.

Slammer (31) V Rammy Mk 3 V Heart of Fire

Heart of Fire to go out.

Heat winner: Uh...pass.

Heat 9

Forcepower (16) V Archangel of the Abyss V Ivy II

Oh boy, this isnt going to be pretty. Team up with ForcePower, if Andy wants. Whether or no, attack ArchAngel off the bat with the spinning bar and then shove him against a wall and axe him to death.

Son of Wedgie (32) V Grim Reaper V Turbo Tails

Grim Reaper, goodbye.

Heat winner: ForcePower or Son of Wedgie

Heat 10

Voltronic (14) V Razer V Judge Shred

Despite Voltronics lowness, Razer should be able to get under him. Voltronic out.

X-Terminator (30) V Dominator 2 V Pussycat

All realie heat, eh Matt? Dominator 2 to go out, remembering what happened in Series 4.

Heat winner: Razer

Heat 11

Wedginator 5.0 (12) V A Large Red Bus Drove My Love Away V Salamander

OHHHH YEAH! Wedginator is a seed. Haha. Anyway, attack the bus and avoid Salamander. Or team up, if Alex wants. Just keep shoving Dave against the wall. Flip a few times for good measure.

Spawn Again (2 V Cacodemon V Wheely Big Cheese

Seed out.

Heat winner: Me or Salamander.

Heat 12

Shovearound 2 (10) V Quocunque Jeceris Stabit V FBSDS

Stabit to get trashed by FBSDS.

GeForce (26) V Spring-BOK V Chaos 2

Chaos 2 to get flipped OOTA again.

Heat winner: Shovearound or GeForce.

Heat 13

Wedge Devolution ( V Hell Brand V Enter the May Tracks

Hellbrand out.

Biohazard (24) V Mute V 13 Black

13 Black out due to lack of srimech. Seriously, can MUTE get under Biohazard?

Heat winner: Wedge Devo.

Heat 14

Tempest Evil-er-Oution (6) V Cosmic Thunder 2 V Macduff the 2nd

YES. Rammer vs. FBS. Ill be using the normal set-up here. Ram Tempest to hell. He shouldnt be too much of a problem, thanks to my thick armour. Cosmic Thunder? Dont care too much about him at the moment. Just attack Tempest completely.

SoR (22) V Star 69 V Atomic

Atomic out.

Heat winner: Me, SoR, or Cosmic Thunder.

Heat 15

Storm 2 (4) V Firestorm V Panicking

Ooh. Panickings chances dont look too good in this fight...Panicking out.

Clawdius Decimus Murderous (20) V Killerhurtz V The Great Cornholio

The Great Hornholio out.

Heat winner: Clawdius or Storm II.

Heat 16

Achilles (2) V Jack Kennedy V Van Tango

Achilles through for sure. Dunno wholl join him...

Metal Sonic Spin Dash (1 V Axe-O-Lotl V Shadow Zone

If Chris wants to attack me, by all means. Ram him. Keep ramming him. Take him to the wall. If things get desperate, use the rear flipper.

Heat winner: Achilles. I aint beating that thing.

This is going to be so awesome. Cant wait!

[majinb]

The Fowler Fic War Series 4

yeah, tactics...

Wedga Revo (1) V A Night At The Bar V Raging Knightmare

Raging Knightmare wants to team up on the champ, and oddly I aint stopping him, just be my destructive self in this match really

[davids]

The Fowler Fic War Series 4

You know I only entered this because Matt asked me to fill up the numbers.

Therefore my tactics are to attack, attack & attack.

[matty_haka]

The Fowler Fic War Series 4

Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the first 2 fights of what is the Fowler Fic War series 4. it all started over 3 years ago now, and since then we€™ve had 1 completed tournament, 1 cancelled tournament and 2 hypothetical tournaments, and it€™s all come down to this.

Let€™s meet the robots that are going to be taking part in this, the first battle.

Please meet, the bnumber 1 seedb, with 60 points on the Fowler Performance Index€¦ Wedga€™s Revenge!!!!!

Well, the reigning champion€™s undergone a fair amount of change since the last series, changing the shape, the design of the weapon, and almost everything about him. Taking on more of a Steg 2 appearance, his weapon has change from an all out flipper, to a flipping arm, mounted inside the natural wedge and scoop shape of the machine. The wheels are well designed to be both lightweight and grip the surface, while the drive train is impressive, making for a neat package. The armour is reasonable, and the ground clearance is low, meaning that chances to beat the machine outright will be few and far between. Weaknesses? I dunno, I€™m sure we€™ll find them out somewhere along the line though

In FFW1 - Did Not Enter
In FFW2 - Got through the gauntlet and sumo rounds to book its place in round 2, where it beat The Big Push on a judges decision. In his heat final he cam up against the number 23 seed for this series, Dantomkia, flipping them out of the arena. Fought his way through the annihilator to come a respectable 3rd, but not enough to book them a place in the heat final. FPI points - 10. FPI calculator - 5
In FFW3 - Beat Bloody Tears, RotRotB, and Flick of The Wrist to book his place in his second consecutive series semi-final. Impressed in the semi-finals with 2 easy victories, first over Bigger Brother, and then over Agro 3.5, to book their place in the grand final. Beat Manic Monsoon on a judges decision to get into the final 2, before an excellent display against the unfancied star of the tournament, Whirligig 4.0 got them into the FFW winners list. FPI points - 50. FPI calculator - 50

Next into the arena, with my usual really long intros is, and with 1 point on the Fowler Performance Index€¦. A Night At The Bar!!!!!

A slightly bizarre axlebot, Martijn€™s creation is essentially a true exponent of the old adage, attack is the best form of defence. A cylinder on wheels, the main weapon is a spinning bar going underneath the cylinder. This does make out for explosions though when the robot is toppled however, so watch out for that. Flippers should have no luck with this robot though, as the centre of gravity allows an amazing srimech revolving around the machines centre of gravity. The armour is tough should it come into play, however the bar is not devastating, so armour as tough as it€™s own could halt him dead.

In FFW1 - Did Not Enter
In FFW2 - Did Not Enter
In FFW 3 - Disappointed fans and pundits alike with its first round display, crashing out at the first hurdle to Tough As Nails, who dominated him for the entire fight before pitting him late on. FPI Points - 1. FPI Calculator - 1

And finally into the arena, with just 1 point on the Fowler Performance Index€¦ Raging Knightmare

The first realies to appear in series 7, but to be blunt, not the one with the best chance by any stretch of the imagination. A powerful flipper, which acts as a srimech as well, means that flippers don€™t phase him, however his armour is not the strongest, and this has been shown by various machines over the years. His speed is good, as is his manouvreability, meaning that mounting the attacks should be a sinch, but he doesn€™t have the drive train to compare with many of the robots in this war. Could Raging Knightmare€™s dreams come true or be put into a permanent sleep?

In FFW1 - Did Not Enter
In FFW2 - Did Not Enter
In FFW3 - Was another first round departure, however was expected to lose, being totally and utterly obliterated by Tengu.

Let€™s head down to the Circle of Doom for the first fight of the series.

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Activate!

And we€™re off! A Night At The Bar starts by ambling across the arena and getting his bar up to speed, while Wedga€™s Revenge heads across the arena towards Raging Knightmare. Just as he€™s about to mount the first genuine attack of the fight, he€™s beaten to it however, as A Night At The Bar slams into his side skirt, sending up sparks but nothing more, as Wedga€™s Revenge escapes seemingly unscathed. Raging Knightmare tries to use the distraction to mount an attack on the side of Wedga€™s Revenge but realises he can€™t get underneath the ultra low ground clearance of Wedga€™s Revenge and concedes defeat.

A Night At The Bar goes at Wedga€™s Revenge again, this time hitting the front scoop, again more sparks and possibly a minute scratch, but AJ and his machine appear unimpressed by the fight being put up by his 2 opponents so far. He goes after A Night At The Bar, and fires the flipper, but Martijn€™s machine just teeters away, wobbling as it goes, trying to regain it€™s balance. Wedga€™s Revenge decides to go after Raging Knightmare instead, but can€™t get underneath him before he runs away, so backs off and decides to spend the time regaining his composure.

A Night At The Bar seems a little fed up with his unsuccessful attacks on Wedga€™s Revenge and so gets a sneaky attack on the side of the running Raging Knightmare. It merely clips him with the edge of the bar, but it shows how weak the UKRW7 semi-finalists armour is, perforating the side, and leaving a long slice in his side panel.

Wedga€™s Revenge uses this attack to mount his own, and advances on Raging Knightmare to try and mount an attack, while the realie appears disillusioned. He manages to slide underneath him for the first time in the match, and fires the flipper straight away, putting him straight onto his back. Raging Knightmare runs away on his inverted wheels for a brief moment just to escape, before firing his flipper and performing a neat dive onto his wheels.

Raging Knightmare knows he has to try and force one of his opponents into a mistake, and so, even though he knows it€™s 99.9% futile, charges again at the side of Wedga€™s Revenge trying to force a mistake. A Night At The Bar catches on, and attacks from the other side at the same time, but even with a flipper and a bar attacking him, still drives off nonchalantly, and completely steady.

Raging Knightmare appears infuriated and goes after A Night At The Bar, hoping for a better chance of success against him. This immediately backfires though, as flipper meets bar, and the bar is bent upwards on one side by the force, greatly reducing the area of the flipper that Raging Knightmare can keep on the floor. Raging Knightmare isn€™t about to give up though, and tries to manouvre to get himself under the wheel. He succeeds, and fires the flipper, and for the first time gets the axlebot over.

This all happens, just as the spikes descend around the pit to loud battle cries, but it gives A Night At The Bar a chance to show of it€™s highly technical self-righting mechanism. While Wedga€™s Revenge goes after Raging Knightmare, A Night At The Bar stops the weapon, which retracts to under the cylinder, the weight then rolls him slowly forwards, the bar comes out, and starts spinning once more. The Crowd are delighted by this display and hope to see it again at some point.

Wedga€™s Revenge however, has succeeded in his pursuit of Raging Knightmare, and has charged at him head on, and slammed him into one of the buzzsaws at the side. It€™s not done any real damage, but it€™s stunned him momentarily, and allowed Wedga€™s Revenge to flip him into the dome shaped roof. He lands on his roof, and repeats the same manouvre as earlier, running off, before firing his flipper and allowing himself a quick and elegant escape.

AJ chases after Martijn€™s machine instead, determined to score some points in the judges€™ eyes. He runs at A Night At The Bar, and tries to slide the scoop under the wheels, but he topples off and rolls down the side of Wedga€™s Revenge. It€™s the first noticeable damage cause to AJ€™s machine tonight though, as the bar catches the side on the way down, and buckles the hinge holding the skirt.

AJ is scathing that his precious machine has been damaged though, and charges after Martijn€™s machine in search of revenge. This time he gets fully under the bar, and flips. Sparks fly as bar meets scoop, but Martijn€™s machine is rolled over, and his self-righting process repeats itself again, all as graceful as it was before. Raging Knightmare has become somewhat of an afterthought, as all this has been happening and immediately re-emerges himself into the fight, flying towards Wedga€™s Revenge.

He looks to mount a serious attack, but once again, flies at the side of AJ€™s machine only to realise that there is no way of him getting under the skirt, which has proved his nemesis throughout the course of this fight. He does manage to push him away briefly though, before Wedga€™s Revenge merely drives forward and accelerates across the arena, looking to consume himself with more worthy opponents.

A Night At The Bar seems to be the very definition of such a worthier opponent and he immediately pursues him across the arena, to find him traveling dangerously close to the pit. He moves away however, and ends up back towards the side of the dome, where most of the action has taken place. He€™s just about to try another flip when Raging Knightmare flies in from nowhere, knocking him off course. This does however, leave him exposed to an attack from A Night At The Bar, who comes into play with the bar and tears another slice into the side, to accompany the one given to him earlier. As it turns out, this is the last play of the match however, and the klaxon sounds, taking it to a judges decision.

CEASE

Judges Scores

CONTROL - ANATB - 3, RK - 3, WR - 4
STYLE - ANATB - 5, RK - 2, WR - 3
DAMAGE CAUSED - ANATB - 7, RK - 1, WR - 2
DAMAGE RECEIVED - ANATB - 6, RK - 1, WR - 3
AGGRESSION - ANATB - 3, RK - 3, WR - 4
STRATEGY - ANATB - 2, RK - 2, WR - 6
OVERALL - ANATB - 4, RK - 2, WR - 4

TOTALS - ANATB - 30, RK - 14, WR - 26

Well it makes it look like a very different fight to what it was, but Wedga€™s Revenge (1) and A Night At The Bar go through to round 2.

[majinb]

The Fowler Fic War Series 4

woohoo, I outdid the champ in the JD!

[kodster]

The Fowler Fic War Series 4

Hahaha, I got owned. Badly. Good job Martijn for beating the champ there.

[kodster]

The Fowler Fic War Series 4

Uh...?

[matty_haka]

The Fowler Fic War Series 4

Ive been ill and work 6 days a week. Be effing patient.

[kodster]

The Fowler Fic War Series 4

Ive been effing patient for 3 weeks :wink:

[swiss_tony]

The Fowler Fic War Series 4

Be effing patient some more.

[kodster]

The Fowler Fic War Series 4

What, are you helping him with FFW4, Tony? Anyway, Im not worried, there seems to be a slight bit of delaying with every tournament, even mine. Ill fix that up immediately.

[paulc]

The Fowler Fic War Series 4

Bump!

[paulc]

The Fowler Fic War Series 4

Sorry about the last post. I though Id send in my predictions.

Heat 1

Wedga Revo (1) V A Night At The Bar V Raging Knightmare - Know that
Black Panther (17) V SUNCUST V Super Speed Bump€™s Baby - SuNCUST will qualify with BPQ

Heat Winner: Black Panther Queen / Wedga Revo

Heat 2

Whirligig 4.0 (3) V Hydra V Die Ceratops Re-Invertus - Hydra will go, due to its thin armour.
Tough As Nails (19) V Mortgage V Psyclonised - TAN and Psyclonised will go through

Heat Winner: Ill give a shock prediction, and go for Die-Ceratops, beating Psyclonised in the HT

Heat 3

The Disc 5 (5) V Super Gore TD V Back to Rock 2 - Super Gore TD to remove The Discs wheels
Killotine:Evo (21) V Orka Mk 4 V Malaria - Killotine and Orka to go through

Heat Winner: Killotine

Heat 4

Barberous 2 n€™ a bit (7) V The Epidemic V Disco 5 - The seed will go out in a shock
Dantomkia (23) V Gravity V Calm Down Dear It€™s Only A Robot - Gravity will go.

Heat Winner: Dantomkia

Heat 5

Leprosy Infection (9) V Bulldog Breed V Scorpion Bite - LP and Scorpion Bite to qualify. BB has thin side armour

Flick of the Wrist (25) V Disco Inferno V Tornado - Disc-O-Inferno to go out

Heat Winner: Leprosy Infection

Heat 6

Tengu (11) V NSBFR-X V Liar - Liar will be on fire
Wild Thing (27) V The Deer V Axeon - out goes The Deer

Heat Winner: Tengu, no-noes beating it!

Heat 7

Typhoon 2 (13) V IDSFA V Sheer Heart Attack - Typhoon 2 to get flipped
Hypnodisc (29) V Mega Hurts: LT V Crash Bandibot - Hypnodisc to get pitted.

Heat Winner: IDSFA

Heat 8

Axe to Fall (15) V The Crashing Bore V Flank Attack - The Crashing Bores top armour will be crushed.
Slammer (31) V Cleopatra V Heart of Fire - Heart Of Fire to be pitted

Heat Winner: Axe To Fall

Heat 9

Forcepower (16) V Archangel of the Abyss V Ivy II - Ivy is going. It aint surviving with ForcePower and Archangel!

Son of Wedgie (32) V Grim Reaper V Turbo Tails - Grim Reaper to go OOTA

Heat Winner: Turbo Tails/ForcePower

Heat 10

Voltronic (14) V Razer V Judge Shred - Judge Shred is going out here
X-Terminator (30) V Dominator 2 V Pussycat - Pussycat is going to get its wheels removed.

Heat Winner: X-Terminator

Heat 11

Wedginator 5.0 (12) V A Large Red Bus Drove My Love Away V Salamander - Wedginator and Salamander go through.

Spawn Again (2 V Cacodemon V Wheely Big Cheese - Cacodemon will be thrown OOTA

Heat Winner: Salamander

Heat 12

Shovearound 2 (10) V Quocunque Jeceris Stabit V FBSDS - QJS to outclassed here.

GeForce (26) V Spring-BOK V Chaos 2 - Chaos 2 is going out.

Heat Winner: Shovearound 2/GeForce

Heat 13

Wedge Devolution ( V Hell Brand V Enter the May Tracks - Hellbrand out.
Biohazard (24) V Mute V 13 Black - 13 Black out.

Heat Winner: Wedge Devolution

Heat 14

Tempest Evil-er-Oution (6) V Cosmic Thunder 2 V Macduff the 2nd - The seed will go out, in a shock

SoR (22) V Star 69 V Atomic - SoR to go.

Heat Winner: Star 69

Heat 15

Storm 2 (4) V Firestorm V Panicking - Panicking out

Clawdius Decimus Murderous (20) V Killerhurtz V The Great Cornholio - Killerhurtz out.

Heat Winner: Storm 2

Heat 16

Achilles (2) V Jack Kennedy V Van Tango - Jack Kennedy out.

Metal Sonic Spin Dash (1 V Axe-O-Lotl V Shadow Zone - Axe-O-Lotl out.

Heat Winner: Achilles/Shadow Zone

Those are my preditions

[kodster]

The Fowler Fic War Series 4

Super Gore TD to remove The Discs wheels

!!! That will never happen. As good as my flywheel is, The Discs hubs will get in the way. And they are TOUGH.

As for the bump, its Mattys tourney, and he can update it when he wants to. Not that we dont want him to (PLEASE Matty! :sad but its his decision.

[paulc]

The Fowler Fic War Series 4

It could happen Kody. Actually, you might wish to gang-up on The Disc, because its so wide. Then you can Back To Rock could pit it:new: