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[neontetra23]

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And Slam!3 is 4KG too heavy

Anyway here is the draw:
1. Ziggy VS Slam!3
2. Revolver VS Tax Cutter
3. Drive VS Back With You
4. Red Knight VS Puzzel

Tactics please

or maybe TicTacs, Whatever

[Guest]

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I did say, remove the skirts

I dont know enough about Ziggy to give detailed tactics, but from what Aaron as provided it looks good. I dont know the front ground clearance (help, anyone?), if it is above zero Ill be fine to attack the front, lift it and slam it into the corners. SLAM! is well capable of OOTAs, as it has more than 8 times the power of Storm II. Good luck Aaron

[majinb]

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My tactic is to simply annoy Drive to hell with my 2 robots. Make sure that pusher never has a clear shot at BOTH robots, ever. Both halves of my clusterbot can get under that GC, but Back to Rock can actually lift it so it will lose control. With You can then hit the pit release button, and the duo can pit it

gluck mr Joey

and gluck to you too Ben

[joey_picus]

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I thought Liam said to take off the skirts, which would reduce the weight to 150?

Anyway, tactics, predictions, that type of thing:

Ziggy vs. SLAM! 3 - Ziggy will exploit SLAMs inability to run inverted and get it out of the arena.

Revolver vs. Tax Cutter - Tax Cutter will bash Revolvers exposed wheels in before Steve can get him down the pit.

DRIVE vs. Back With You - This depends on what rule is being used for clusterbots:

IF you only have to immobilise one to get the whole robot out: Go for With You. I have three times its weight and four extra motors, which translates to a lot more power and traction. Get it down the pit, and then perhaps mess around with the defeated BTR a bit, shove that in there too.

IF you have to get both out: Go for BTR first, With You shouldnt be of much threat while I take on BTR. Push it into House Robots or pit, and then erase and rewind, recording over by doing the same to With You.

In either case, dont go near the CPZs or the pit unless it is for the purpose of shoving something in.

Red Knight vs. Puzzel: Puzzel to outwit Red Knight and get it over the fence.

Good luck people

[leorcc]

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Tic-Tocs: Puzzel to charge in, flip the weapon extension of red knight over and flip the whole robot OOTA before the slow linear actators can do their job.

[kodster]

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Hopefully Ive bolted on my panels well enough. The armour itself should keep Revolver busy for a while.

Tactics: Wheels. Kill em.

[alex_holt]

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Shave 2kg off the disc and 3kg off the plate.

Hopefully it should be very tough to get beneath the front plate as the bristles pushed by the weight of the plate should form a decent anti-flipper seal by my reckoning.

Drive after it and let the weapon do its stuff. I have some ideas for an update to Red Knight actually.

[kodster]

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Hey Martijn!

With You has 3mm Hardox armour! That doesnt exist!

[joey_picus]

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Kody has kindly pointed out to me that 3mm Hardox doesnt exist

My tactics for Drive now also include going straight for the unprotected sides, maybe try and knock off a chain or a tyre with the front spikes.

[alex_holt]

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It does exist - you take thicker hardox and file it down, just because it doesnt exist conveniantly doesnt mean it doesnt exist.

[kodster]

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Well I havent seen anybody use 1mm or 2mm Hardox :P, and I believe I heard from Jonno that you cant have less than 3.25mm Hardox...

[neontetra23]

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Here is the first fight:}
Ziggy VS Slam!3

Our house robots are Growler and Sir Killalot

3-2-1-Activate

Slam!3 charges towards Ziggy and,
CRASH!
both robots hit each other hard, but both are still mobile and undamaged, Slam!3 rushes in for another hit
CRASH!
This time he catches Ziggy by suprise, but no damage ha been, wait look the corner of Ziggys wedge has been buckled, Ziggy heads towards the pit release and opens the pit, meanwhile Slam!3 is preparing for another hit, and has started picking up speed, Ziggy turns round and,
Smash!
Slam!3 get underneath the buckleed corner of Ziggys wedge and lifts him onto his back against the wall but Ziggy fires his flipper and is back on his wheels, both robots now in a stale mate., both trying to get under the other, Slam!3 breaks free and drives off to try and get some momentum, but Ziggy has followed him and has got underneath him at the side and
FLIP!
Slam!3 ends up on his back near the pit and tries to self-right using the arm but he is too near the pit and decides to stay upside down, so Ziggy comes along and finishes him off
Boom!
The pyrotechnics in the pit go off which signals the end for Slam!3

Cease!

A win for Ziggy with just 12 seconds left before the end of the match!

Ziggy goes through to the semi-finals
Slam!3 Doesnt

Next fight: Revolver vs Tax Cutter

[leorcc]

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Its 3.2mm actually.

[neontetra23]

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How was the fight??

[leorcc]

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Its not bad, good first attempt. But I let the judgement on the writing up to the other writers.