Battlebots: Beyond The Battlebox

[dinowarrior]

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Hey, its not MY fault AJ isnt considerate enough to put his lightweight BEFORE his Middleweight, or at least make it clearer.

Anyway, now that thats COMPLETELY thrown the line-up...

LIGHTWEIGHTS
Against vs Radioactive
Anti Virus 2.0 vs Spin Cycle
Claw vs Spinny
Little Stingray vs Titanium Titan

MIDDLEWEIGHTS
Bonz vs Purer
Killoteeny vs ROID
Life vs Solstice 2.0
Media Diablo vs With You

[joey_picus]

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REWORKED TACTICS FOR LIFE:
Box rush. Try and get over there before it can spin up, ram it, and try and stack it on the spikes. Failing that, flip it around until it dies, or something else of note happens.

[kodster]

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Argh, my middleweight battle is switched. Stupid assumptions of mine.

Life vs. Solstice 2.0

AVOID THE FRONT! Hit anywhere else, maybe try to get him to miss a flip and then attack the inside of it.

[majinb]

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Little Stingray vs Titanium Titan

gonna enter this battle with my wedges arranged like Rammstein (one regular, one inverted), and ram his FRONT. My thick titanium wedge vs his flimsy skirts, I think that clash will be in my favour. Liams stats fail to give both speed and locomotion so I dont have enough info to give more detailed tactics.

Media Diablo vs With You
Be like Tornado was on Chaos II, ram its sides and its rear. With You has a very thick scoop at 0 mm GC, so I know Ill have some fun.


Back To Rock 3 vs Sir Spinalot
Lift up, cut tires, pit.

Flick Of The Wrist/With You vs. SEKHMET
Head in with Flick ASAP to stop it from twacking ASAP, head in with With You afterwards to pit it with the combined power of Flick and With you, his GC is big so Im happy there, also its 10 wheels vs 2

[Guest]

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ARRGGH!
Im dead already...

Little Stingray v Titanium Titan

Hes not going to be very maneouvrable with that low clearance, so Ill just try and get round the side to attack.Avoid his plan!!Just lift him up and feed him to the kill saws!MWAHAHAHAHA!

Media Diablo v With You

Martijn again!
Im probably toast, but Ill give it my best to flip him to kingdom come!Flip him all around the arena and knock out his link!This being a middleweight bout I might get some sky-high flips!

E Clawdius Unum v Static Shock

Can this get any worse?
Try to get around his rear end and push him into arena hazards.

Mauler v SLAM!

No problem!Maulers an unstable bot so Ill just crash into it at top speed and let it fly!

Looking good Chris!

[Guest]

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Also Martijn, theres no pit in Battlebots so you cant dump Sir Spinalot in the pit.
And I do have locomotion on my stats, and the speed should be pretty quick, about 23mph

And as for my SHW tactics, I thought it was the realie Mauler.
However, this bot seems VERY unrealistic to me, and its stats are very uninformative.

(Message edited by Robot_Warrior on April 05, 200

[dinowarrior]

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BATTLEBOTS: BEYOND THE BATTLEBOX

Welcome to Dinowarrior Battlebots, the mechanical mother of all fighting tournaments. Or, at least, thats what it says on the script. Over the next few weeks, youll see robots from four different weight catergories battle it out in the Battlebox, a nightmare-ish torture zone, with kill-saws, ram-rods, pulverisers, pistons and hell-raisers. It aint a pretty sight, but hey...someones got to do it.

Our first fight features two lightweight machines, Against and Radioactive. Do we know anything about these creatures? Heck, we know EVERYTHING about the robots on this show...possibly.

Against is built by long-time fanfic veteran Steven McGregor. This basic box has a hindged wedge as his main weapon, allowing him to easily get under other robots. Once up there, the spikes on top should keep them down.

Radioactive is an invertible wedge that can run any way up he is thrown, but just like Against, its also his main weapon. Its creator is Joey McConnell.

Now, lets go ringside...

Introducing, first, in the red square to my left...Hes a little bit toxic, a little bit wacky, and he intends to pollute all of his fellow competitors, until they cry for mercy! Introducing...RADIOACTIVE!!

And his oppodent, in the blue square to my right...Dont try holding arguments with him, as hell always oppose you, just as he opposes everyone else. The robot thatll never be for you, here is...AGAINST!!

THE BOX IS LOCKED, THE LIGHTS ARE ON, ITS ROBOT FIGHTING TIME!!

The two little lightweights come charging out of their squares. Theyll have to be careful of course, the hazards are much more dangerous to little lightweights than they are to the big boys. At the moment, Steve and Joey are just getting used to the arena. Now they charge...CRASH! Its a head on collision! The 0mm ground clearance of these two machines is just making things awkward. Now its a case of who has the more power and traction...and that would appear to be Against! He starts pushing Radioactive back, but the problem here is that Radioactive has four extra kilos in his favour, so when he pushes back, everything cancels out again. Someones got to give the other the slip sooner or later...and Radioactive breaks! But that allows Against to get underneath! Now he can drive, but can he get right under to pin him there with the barbs on top? He tries a charge...but no! Radioactive slips off! And now Radioactive gets underneath the side of Against! This doesnt look good. Radioactive now charges straight towards the Pulveriser...Hes picking up speed as he does so...BANG!! Straight into the area where the Pulverisers are! But the impact is so strong that Against bounces off the panel and goes flying right back away from the giant hammer, and now Radioactive is taking the pounding instead! Against tries to recover...but isnt that where one of the kill-saws are?....OH, YEAH BABY!! That WAS Kill Saw Territory, and Against goes flying! Radioactive manages to escape the Pulveriser, just about. Now hes heading for Against. Against is a little shaken. He just hasnt been able to get up to full speed. Radioactive crashes into him front on again...and this time theres damage clear. The kill-saw trip has done something to the titanium strip, perhaps buckling it slightly...and now Radioactive lures Against, more slowly this time, into the other Pulveriser. Get ready, because were serving up Robot pancakes! As the hammer bashes down on Against, Radioactive crawls out and sits back, as it appears that Against is done for. Steve is flicking the controls, but there is nothing he can do about it. And, Im afraid, the match is over, as the referee counts Against down. Radioactive a very good first winner.

*BUZZ!!*

And thats it.

OK, I wont bore you with the complete blah-de-blah of the post-mortum...youre probably bored stiff right now, so well skip to the important part...

THE WINNER, BY KNOCKOUT, IN THE RED SQUARE, RADIOACTIVE!!

I also wont bore you with the stats at the end. Does anyone ever watch them anyway?

Hope you tolerated this well enough.

NEXT TIME: We dive into the Middleweight class, when Bonz takes on Purer.

[kodster]

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Whoa! Mason returns to the writing queue with an uppercut of an fight!

Well done Chris.

[joey_picus]

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I cant imagine the stats for a wedge fight would be that interesting anyway...very good fight though, Chris, and not just because I won Good work by Steve as well.

[Guest]

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What a way to open the tournament! Great fight Chris
I cant wait for my battles- my only fights so far have been in ...Mark Elams tournaments, and they werent very detailed at all- surprise surprise!

[corsair_lightning]

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WTF!?

That was at least the 5th greatest vapour fight of all time!!!

[Guest]

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What on earth are you on about?

[paulc]

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A new robot, and youre calling at least the 5th greatest vapour of all time - and its been around for about 1 month. What the hell are you on Mark? If its Steroid then we will be in serious trouble when you come off them /

[joey_picus]

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...Radioactive? Correct me if Im wrong, but anybody who thinks that comes near the top five greatest machines ever...Im not saying theyre mad, but they are certainly a few fries short of a Happy Meal...

[andrewj]

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For what its worth, he said vapour fight rather than just vapour. But that makes it even more confusing. Nice start anyway, Chris!