The Fight against House Robots Revisited

[kodster]

The Fight against House Robots Revisited

All right! Maybe teaming up with my arch-nemesis isnt so bad after all!

*high-fives Steve*

[corsair_lightning]

The Fight against House Robots Revisited

Holy Sh**! That was awesome!

[paulc]

The Fight against House Robots Revisited

Mark - if youre going to make a comment like that, Id be on vacation if I were you.

[kodster]

The Fight against House Robots Revisited

Paul, did you not read all the posts on the thread on the Zlayerz/VED board? (it was called Okay...)

[davids]

The Fight against House Robots Revisited

The Fight Against the House Robots Revisited, Round 1, Fight 2:

Nitro-Gene 4.0314159265358979323846€¦ & Alpha-Rex vs. Magnavox & Fin

The first robot into the arena to fight today is Nitro-Gene 4.0314159265358979323846€¦, Nitro-Gene 4.0314159265358979323846€¦ is a low invertible box with a nasty wedge at the front, powering the weapon of Nitro-Gene 4.0314159265358979323846€¦ is nitrogen, giving quite a bit of kick to the first few flips which should throw things far. The drive is provided by 4 wheels each with their own motor, giving quite a bit of punch and speed. Nitro-Gene 4.0314159265358979323846€¦ is pretty much bullet-proof, but for strong armour panels has Paul made cut-backs in the strength of the chassis to make the robot in weight?

The second robot into the arena teaming up with Nitro-Gene 4.0314159265358979323846€¦, ah sod it teaming up with Nitro-Gene 4.0 (happy now Paul?) is Alpha-Rex, another flipper powered by nitrogen, this time it is a more standard shaped box with I guess some type of tongue to get underneath robots with, Alpha-Rex has 2 wheel drive at the rear and titanium armour. It looks like a neat little robot, however with such a powerful flipper it might have problems self-righting as it might do fancy 360s, also with only 2 wheel drive, the front might lift up during acceleration and without a wedge to speak off, it might have problems putting that powerful flipper into use.

The 3rd item into the arena today is a mysterious man carrying a mysterious object covered by a mysterious blue cloth as he places it into the mysterious 5th corner, it is revealed to be today€™s required element of a broken toaster, to help bring toast to the world, and the mysterious man disappears though a mysterious hole which appeared mysteriously and as suddenly as it appears the hole disappears sending the broken toaster into a random part of the arena though the closure of the 5th corner in the cube.

The 4th robot to enter the arena is Magnavox; this Sir Killalot look-a-like even has tracks, but as it drives towards its starting square, something inside of the robot starts to make an awful noise which suddenly ends as Magnavox drives to its starting square. This house robot has a nasty spinning flywheel attached to the left arm, but due to the high level engineering which has gone into making Mark€™s machine, the flywheel motor is attached to the main body with some sort of exposed belt drive system driving the flywheel on the under-belly of the arm. On the 2nd arm is a claw, again powerful but it has exposed hydraulic pipes to allow the arm to move freely. It can€™t self-right, but those skirts might protect it against some flippers.

The 5th and final robot to enter the arena today is Fin, this multi-weapon machine has a front trapping wedge in which to trap robots, 2 side drums which are too protect the sides from robots from diving underneath the 1cm ground clearance and flipping the machine over onto it€™s back where it has no self-righter, at the rear is an axe mounted on the rear of the machine to act like a tail. Fin packs a punch from its drive system, but in a battle against 2 powerful flippers will its lack of a self-righter add against it?

Dan and Paul are in control booth number 1, and Paul & Liam are in control booth number 2.

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Fin is away, punching a punch from its motors as it aims for a fast attack, as Mark puts Magnavox into forward drive, as starts moving the tracked machine forward, meanwhile Nitro-Gene and Alpha Rex are thinking whom to attack first, as they dodge an attack from Fin as Nitro-Gene sets off towards Magnavox which is moving on its tracks as it meets Nitro-Gene head-on, the front wedge of Nitro-Gene beating the front wedge of Magnavox as the flipper fires sending Magnavox onto the broken toaster, landing on it€™s back. Meanwhile at the other side of the arena, Alpha Rex has got caught by Fin, Dan trapping Liam€™s machine towards a rock and a hard-place.

Danny seeing what has happened to his partners robot quickly puts on full power with Alpha-Rex still on the front wedge, straight into the arena wall, Alpha-Rex spins out of the front as Nitro-gene comes out to play, as Fin powers it€™s way out of a sticky situation, smashing into Magnavox trying to right it, but spins Magnavox onto it€™s side rather than onto it€™s tracks, as Nitro-gene and Alpha-Rex give chase to Fin, as Dan spins his machine around and drives towards both vapourbots again, as Nitro-Gene and Alpha-Rex dives around the sides of Fin, Dan spins around to counter-act Nitro-Gene as it has the more dangerous wedge, but Alpha-Rex gives chase and when Nitro-Gene is slammed into the arena wall, Alpha-Rex gets underneath the rear end, the rear axe giving no problems as the flipper fires, sending Fin onto it€™s top, next to Nitro-Gene, which steams away from the scene of the crime.

The job for both Nitro-Gene and Alpha-Rex is done, both house robots are stuck in a moment they can€™t get out off, as the ref is counting Fin down.

Cease

2 flips is all that was needed to put Magnavox and Fin onto their backs, Nitro-Gene 4.0 and Alpha-Rex go forward to round 2.

The next fight is Mega Masher 2 & Armory vs. Apocalyptinator and Custard Cream. But hold your horses, I€™m hearing from the pits that Mega Masher 2 has been involved into a rather nasty accident, when Chris was in the safety area testing the rear vertical disc of Mega Masher, the robot when out of control, driving rear end first into the solid harden concrete wall, after making a nasty mess of the wall, the entire disc unit got pushed into the machine still spinning, and causing quite a lot of internal damage to the electronics, of which Chris hasn€™t been able to repair, so he has had to redraw Mega Master 2 from the competition.

Mark, not wanting to be at a disadvantage has cloned himself and Armoury.

So the next fight is Armoury & Clone of Armoury vs. Apocalyptinator and Custard Cream.

Tactics, predictions etc?

[Guest]

The Fight against House Robots Revisited

Yay! Although Paul happens to be in 2 cotnrol booths () that was a really good fight and funny as well.

[paulc]

The Fight against House Robots Revisited

Yes, very good fight - pleased at putting Dan and Mark in their place, but annoyed at Nitro-Genes chassis being called weak when its a monocoque, and has the edges designed not to be torn off, and also you calling it Nitro-Gene 4.0314159265358979323846...

And the reason WHY I was in 2 booths at once is why Mark was in hospital and in a booth - it makes for funny stuff

[davids]

The Fight against House Robots Revisited

Oops, got Mark and Paul mixed up :blush:

And meh, Nitro-Gene 4.0314159265358979323846... is a better name than Nitro-Gene 4.0 (although it was a joke)

[davids]

The Fight against House Robots Revisited

Can someone help me find Armourys stats, its in how can I improve thread according to Marky

[andrewj]

The Fight against House Robots Revisited

Armory
Weight: 100kg
Shape: Big rectangular prism with a wedge at the front.
Colour: Yellow, with blue on the top and bottom.
Dimensions: 90cm x 50cm x 30cm
Drive: 2x S28-400 Magmotors, powered by 5x NiCad Battlepacks.
Locomotion: 2 externally mounted fully Vulkanized rubber wheels.
Speed: 20mph
Ground Clearance: 0mm at front due to wedge, 0mm at sides and back with skirts, 5mm without skirts.
Turning Circle: 0m
Armour: 7mm Titanium/Vanadium alloy
Weapon: a 20kg Supernova shaped titanium disc with 2 2kg Hardox Hammerheads, powered by an LEM-200.
Srimech: Invertible

[davids]

The Fight against House Robots Revisited

Ta

[joey_picus]

The Fight against House Robots Revisited

...if theyre fully Vulkanised, does that include the wheel bearings and the sprockets?

[tacoman]

The Fight against House Robots Revisited

Yes. Obviously.

Also, I like the fact its a rectangular prism as opposed to a cuboid.

[davids]

The Fight against House Robots Revisited

And i wonder what dear old Mark meant about externally mounted, does he mean that everything is mounted on the outside motors and all?

[joey_picus]

The Fight against House Robots Revisited

PREDICTIONS:

The universe will at some point realise that having two Mark Elams is a Very Bad Thing (r) and will automatically seek to correct itself through the opening of a plot hole.

However, the plot hole will inadvertedly end up being a portal to Hell, and demons will emerge and kill all the humans before beginning to transform the arena into an extension of Hellish corruption.
Liam, having been away from the arena at the time of the incident, must enter the building and try and stop the demonic invasion himself, through a process which involves chainsaws, gore, blood, more gore, more blood, moral outrage, large guns that shoot big balls of plasma, bad movies starring ex wrestlers, and a thing that looks like a brain on legs.

When he sucessfully travels through the arena, the pit area, and Hell itself, shooting anything in his path, he will come across a giant iconic image of Frank Goacher on a wall, which he must shoot repeatedly until he damages a small appartition of Joeys head on a stick inside the wall enough for the hellish threat to finally dissapate, and rest in the knowledge that he saved the human species.

Also, both Armorys will be pitted very quickly.