Velociraptor's Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

[Guest]

Velociraptors Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

Ram into the sides of The Raven/Force Power/ El Persistance to cause pretty sparks and to rip away any skirts/side lumps/bolts to cause damage.

[parassyte]

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After that... Dont think I can do much to Flea, so Ill flip ABR around. Firestorms nippy and manoeverable so I should be able to toss it around a bit, unless Nick fancies teaming up and pitting Flea?

If I knew the stats for Flea, perhaps I wouldnt be swayed as easily. Excuse me whilst I render the ablative armor for the fight.

[knightrous]

Velociraptors Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

Its the old old flea with the hydraulic powered spinning bar. Nothing too fearsome, since most of the weight went into the hydraulic drive system and jumping system. Maybe its time we saw a return of the flea...

[andrewj]

Velociraptors Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

Oh, its OK, Aaron. Leave it as it is. :wink:

[velociraptor]

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Do you want the stats for Flea then, Nick?

Flea 2.0
Motivation: Wheels
Weight: 99.31kg
Height: 290mm
Length: 800mm
Width: 600mm
Speed: 0-25MPH
Clearance: 3mm
Weapon: Flea has a new type of weapon that hasnt been used in Robotic Combat. Flea has two 100mm pneumatic rams powered by pneumatics at 145psi. These rams make Flea jump 5ft into the air due to the 795kg of force from the rams. This can be used to evade flippers, flywheels and House robots. This can be put together with good driving to make a crash tackle on an opponent. The pneumatics is powered by a compressor that takes the exhaust via a catalytic converter from the 160cc Chainsaw motor and pumps it into a 1kg CO2 canister. This gives Flea unlimited amounts of pneumatics.
Flea now has a 10kg spinning bar powered by a hydraulic motor at 4000rpm.
Drive: 160cc Chainsaw (6hp, Electric start) powering a Hydraulic pump which then feeds it to the 4 drive motors. To speed control, the drive pressure dumps back to the reservoir is used with stepper valves.
Armour: Flea has a 25mm hard compound rubber that surround the whole shape of the robot. On the top there is 4mm Hardox (Terrorhurtz was unable to put more than a dint in 4mm Hardox).
Batteries: 20 5000mah NiCad cells put together to form 12v 10A for the electric start)
Notes: Flea is Invertible.

[kodster]

Velociraptors Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

Winner of the Heat: ForcePower because it is just too fast and too good armour. Sorry Steve, but it looks like your Raven is shredded chicken

[velociraptor]

Velociraptors Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

Nick? Are you finished rendering yet? Or can I use ABR as it is?

Sorry if I seem impatient, but I havent been making quick progress lately and I want to make some over half term (or at least until Friday when Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas comes out).

[kodster]

Velociraptors Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

Aw come on Richard continue with the heats! :sad:

Team Gore

[parassyte]

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sdone. The axles dont really hang out like that. Im just too lazy to cut them at the moment. The 2nd image shows how the plow unfolds to self-right.

[velociraptor]

Velociraptors Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

Thanks, Nick! I hope this is satisfactory, Kody!

Welcome to VFT6 - 10 heats are complete, and theres just 6 more to go, beginning with Heat K!

12th seed Annoying Box Rush reached the semifinals of VFT5, its ramming power eliminating Chaos 2 and Whirligig 3.0! But once in the semis, it met the faster and more powerful Monsoons Back, who showed it the way to the pit! The new Annoying Box Rush is shaped a bit like a car, with eight outer wheels protected by wheel guards, and a scoop/lifter at the front, which moves through almost 180 degrees for flipping and selfrighting! It also has a lead anti spinner contraption at the front, and copper ablative armour plates for use in melees! The front spatula claims to be the lowest wedge in the competition, and at 17mph ABR can run quickly, but with a high ground clearance at the sides, it could be annoyed by flippers and wedges!

28th seed Forcepower Turbo was a VFT4 semifinalist, but went out in Round 2 of VFT5, another victim of Monsoons Back and the pit! Forcepower is now a higher box wedge with a rounded back and steeper wedge. Again, it has no weapons, except a 64hp drive which will hurt anything Forcepower Turbo meets! Its well controlled, with skid steering and a speed lowered to 15mph, and its Hardox wedge should resist spinners, but its not that effective when inverted!

Disconstructor has never been in VFT before, but made a brief appearance in RW7, tearing at Iron Awe 2.1, Hammerhead 2 and Xenomorph before...driving itself into the pit! This is basically an invertable box robot, with a tilted spinning disc at the front that looks capable of dealing the damage - how many robots will be disconstructed here today?

El Persistance is a Storm-2 like robot - invertable, with skirts, and a 20hp drive! Its armed with a Wedge Of Doom-like pronged lifting arm which will lift opponents off the ground, so they can be slammed about at leisure! El Persistance is well armoured (although technically its 3mm Hardox armour shouldnt exist), but its arm doesnt work as a srimech, so when inverted, it stays that way!

Firestorm V is a star of RW, having come 3rd three times, and also has one of the best real robot records of VFT, having made the quarter finals of VFT2, and heat finals of VFT3 and VFT4, beaten by the inpenetrable Super Flipping Mad Mk3 last time! This fast, manouverable wedge robot is nice and low to get under most opponents, and its front hinged flipper usually works to overturn its victims so they can be shoved around! Unfortunately, if Graham and Hazel are married now, they wont get any prize money to help pay for the wedding if they win here, but at least theyll have some pride!

Flea 2.0, a last minute replacement for Rip Cage, returns from the garage after VFT3, where it made the heat final, and found The Robot That Wasnt There serving as a launch pad to flip it into the pit! This invertable robots main weapon is a 10kg spinning bar, but its main feature are two pneumatic rams that let it jump 5ft into the air, used for dodging and crash tackling! With Hardox and rubber armour, Flea 2.0 will be hard to penetrate, and with top speeds of 25mph, hard to keep up with, unless someone has a flea collar handy!

Mr Nasty is a RW entrant who went out early in RW6 when Crushtacean snapped its aerial off, but did a bit better in the New Blood until Mute flipped it around and won a judges decision (I think). It goes for a simple design - an invertable box with a static spike at the front! Mr Nasty hopes to use its speed and power to win over any other robots, but will it turn out to be less of a man in the arena?

And The Raven is an Ally Gator like robot with sloped sides and back, a wedge at the front and spikes along the top. Its weapon is a snipping jaw, with the bottom part inside the wedge - the idea is a robot will get snagged on the spikes so it can be snapped! Its srimech, a flap on top, can also serve as a flipper if a robot gets on top! The Raven has good pushing power and manouverability, but if a flipper gets to the sides, it could be sent out of VFT6, to return nevermore!

The first melee has two Vapours - Annoying Box Rush and Flea 2.0 - and two realies - Firestorm V and Mr Nasty!

3, 2, 1 - ACTIVATE!
Annoying Box Rush, Flea 2.0 and Firestorm V all turned on Mr Nasty, who rammed towards ABR! ABR quickly turned into it as it came and lifted, causing Mr Nasty to tumble! ABR advanced on Mr Nasty again, while Firestorm V tried to push past, and Flea 2.0 just struck ABR in its copper armour! ABR wouldnt have this, and turned towards Flea 2.0, who fired its rams and jumped over it! The path was now clear for Firestorm V to attack Mr Nasty, chasing it away but failing to catch up! Mr Nasty came back towards ABR, who was still being frustrated by Flea 2.0. The spike met ABRs side with full force, shoving it until Mr Nasty slid off, right into the bar of Flea 2.0! Firestorm V took the oppotunity to catch Mr Nasty after this blow, drove it into the wall and flipped it against it! Backing off to admire its stranded victim, Firestorm V returned to ABR, who had taken a couple more slices from Flea 2.0 in its absence! The real robot went straight for ABRs side, only to be hit itself by Flea 2.0! But this didnt matter, as ABR was turning, and Firestorm V could flick round to get underneath it and flip, just before being hit in the side again by the Flea! As ABR began selfrighting, Firestorm V came straight underneath, and a direct trip to the arena disc followed for the 12th seed!
Annoying Box Rush flew off Firestorm Vs wedge, and as Firestorm V went in again, it was again intercepted by the bar of Flea 2.0! Flea catapulted out of danger as ABR hit the side of the distracted Firestorm V and lifted it against the wall! When Flea 2.0 cheekily hit its rear copper, the 12th seed decided to move, giving Firestorm V a taste of the disc! Skimming away, Firestorm V found itself close to the trapped Mr Nasty, who would soon have to be freed! So before the other two could attack, Firestorm came underneath Mr Nasty, sending it toppling off the wall, ran with it to the pit release and gave it a toss downward into the hole! Turning back toward its advancing opponents, Firestorm V came towards ABR, and managed to reach its side, inadvertently shoving it into Flea 2.0s bar! Still having a grip on Annoying Box Rush, Firestorm V ran it to the still open pit, and flipped it in just as it was closing!
CEASE!

Annoying Box Rush and Mr Nasty are eliminated!
FIRESTORM V AND FLEA 2.0 GO THROUGH TO ROUND 2!

Now expect ramming, slicing, lifting and snapping from Forcepower Turbo, Disconstructor, El Persistance and The Raven!

3, 2, 1 - ACTIVATE!
Forcepower Turbo made a move towards El Persistance, who was running towards Disconstructor, as was The Raven! Before El Persistance could reach Disconstructor, it was rammed in the side by the 28th seed, and taken into the wall, knocking The Raven aside in the process! As Forcepower pinned El Persistance and shoved against the skirts, Disconstructor attacked, slicing Forcepowers side! The Raven went round the back towards Disconstructor, who turned into it and gave it a nice mark in the front! The Raven was not repelled, and brought its claw down on the disc, but the spinner hit the front before it was all the way down and knocked Disconstructor back, so it could hit the Hardox claw and scratch it, before running around to the side! Unfortunately, The Raven followed quickly and attacked Disconstructors side, and crunched! Meanwhile, Forcepower Turbo was underneath El Persistance, and turned it around for a hard slam into the west wall, that made El Persistance bounce onto its top! A reverse into the east wall made El Persistance spin into the wall and onto Forcepowers rear, so it could be taken down into the south wall! This impact freed El Persistance from Forcepower, but it wasnt facing the right way to attack, so it went after The Raven and Disconstructor!
At this point, The Raven had taken Disconstructor into the arena disc, leaving a scar, and was going for a second hit when El Persistance attacked the side! Against the wall, The Raven was lifted, and it and Disconstructor were carried away, causing the advancing Forcepower Turbo to run into the wall! El Persistances victims were slammed into the north wall themselves, then the threesome turned around to face Forcepower, and El Persistance charged, knocking the 28th seed backwards! Forcepower responded by turning into the side of El Persistance and pushing it down the arena again! All four robots were now locked together, with Forcepower under El Persistance and The Raven and Disconstructor still gripped! A trip to the arena disc came quickly, but it only caused El Persistance and its prey to fly off Forcepower Turbo again! As it was carrying them towards the pit release, The Raven was told to release the trapped Disconstructor, and it did! As the real robot dropped to the floor, The Raven was carried onward, into the pit release, and then it was dangled over the pit, dropping in before its pinning time limit could run out! El Persistance reversed quickly as Forcepower Turbo and Disconstructor attacked, but it wasnt enough to stop Forcepower slamming it against the wall, manouvering under the skirts, and making El Persistance follow The Raven down, both robots taking more scars from Disconstructor in the process!
CEASE!

El Persistance and The Raven are eliminated!
FORCEPOWER TURBO AND DISCONSTRUCTOR GO THROUGH TO ROUND 2!

Heat K, Round 2:
Forcepower Turbo (2 vs Flea 2.0
Disconstructor vs Firestorm V

[pcbore]

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Wooty

Gainst Disconstructer, Firestorms got a nice rounded shape and as seen against its second fight with Hypnodisc it can take hits from spinners when the links in right. Ill slide under the sides of Disconstructor and flip it into the arena disc a few times to soften it up and hopefully break the weapon, then try and pit it.

[andrewj]

Velociraptors Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

Forcepower Turbo (2 vs Flea 2.0

Flea doesnt bother me too much. Im going to use the lethal tactics of moving out of the way when it jumps in the air so it comes down and crashes into the floor, not onto ForcePower. Ive just got to try and bash it as it lands and get a few attacks in before it jumps.

[velociraptor]

Velociraptors Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

With a vapour-realie heat final guaranteed, who will be the vapour - Forcepower Turbo or Flea 2.0?

3, 2, 1 - ACTIVATE!
Forcepower Turbo came straight out, but Flea 2.0 came a little forwards and jumped, aiming to crashtackle Forcepower! But Forcepower did a cool swerve out of the way and Flea 2.0 landed on the floor - the 28th seed moved quickly to ram it into the wall, and Flea 2.0 hit the polycarbonate before it could jump away again! It landed just short of Forcepower Turbos grasp, and quickly zipped to the side to attack the titanium! It landed a blow before Forcepower spun around to ram it, but didnt get very far before Flea 2.0 disappeared into the air! So Forcepower reversed after Flea 2.0, and shoved with its rounded back, but Flea jumped again before it met the wall! Forcepower Turbo followed it again, and its Hardox wedge hit Flea 2.0s blade, before Flea skyrocketed out of danger! Landing on the floor, Flea came towards the oncoming Forcepower and took it along the right side, only to be shoved a short distance on the wedge until the rams fired again! When it landed, Forcepower Turbo was ready to slam it hard into the wall and turn it on its side, so Flea 2.0 jumped sideways when it fired its rams, and went into another wall and back into Forcepower, who sent it straight back into the north wall! Resisting the punishment, Flea 2.0 got itself sorted and jumped again!
When both robots clashed again, Forcepower Turbos wedge again had to resist Flea 2.0s bar, and then Flea moved to the side, only landing a glancing blow before Forcepower came round, deflected the bar and then rammed! Again Flea 2.0 rocketed away, but as it landed, its bar hit the floor and it went rather wonky, allowing Forcepower to give it a good hard ram into the pit corner! Bouncing away from the impact, Fleas bar hit the floor again and it went off again, so the 28th seed took advantage by quickly ramming it in the rear, although they failed to reach the pit release before Flea 2.0s rams took it away again! Reversing towards Flea as it landed, Forcepower Turbo failed to catch it and got a rearful of bar for its troubles! Again Flea 2.0 jumped before Forcepowers wedge could touch it, then it met the wedge head on with its bar in the next collision! It leapt again to escape Forcepowers anger, but was caught as it landed, and run towards the pit! Flea 2.0 fired its rams, which caused it to hit the wall above the pit and bounce off and away on the floor! Avoiding driving into the pit itself, Forcepower Turbo reversed after the unseeded robot again, and caught it, then took it back towards the pit release as the pit closed! Flea 2.0 fired again, but only brought itself towards the pit release, and was rammed against it! Turning and pinning Flea 2.0 against the wall on its side, Forcepower Turbo began the fatal ram, but Flea 2.0 fell back onto its wheels and jumped - unfortunately, this took it very close to the pit, and Forcepower Turbo was quickly there to give it a nudge all the way!
CEASE!

FORCEPOWER TURBO GOES THROUGH TO THE HEAT FINAL!

And who will be the realie - Disconstructor or Firestorm V?

3, 2, 1 - ACTIVATE!
As Disconstructor and Firestorm V entered the arena centre, Firestorm V turned into Disconstructors side, only to be hit by the angled disc in the process! But this knocked it around, and it was able to get underneath before it could be hit again, then it ran Disconstructor to the arena disc and flipped it into the vortex! The top of the disc and armour was hit, and Disconstructor landed on its back! It turned into Firestorm V as it came in, but couldnt do much with the inverted disc, and was shoved into the arena disc rear first again, causing it to fly over Firestorm V and give its top a little nick! Reversing and then swerving, Firestorm V captured Disconstructor once again, and in a moment, its disc met the arenas one, taking a cut but still running! Firestorm V followed Disconstructor again as it flew off, and took a blow in the side as it attacked, but that didnt put it off as it brought Disconstructor right around for a fourth dose of punishment, which hit the disc again, as well as slashing the side armour! Bouncing on the floor due to its disc, Disconstructor could not escape Firestorm Vs next advance - the RW veteran had now got bored, and rammed Disconstructor into the pit release, then towards the pit, flipped it in for some flourish, then drove in itself to please the crowd (waiting before doing this, so as not to end up in a similar situation as in its fight with The Morgue)!
CEASE!

FIRESTORM V GOES THROUGH TO THE HEAT FINAL!

Heat K Final:
Forcepower Turbo (2 vs Firestorm V

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Velociraptors Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

Fast and furious. Wooty

Despite being beaten by Storm and Tornado, Firestorm CAN hold its own against rammers with the right tactics. I intend to only use the flipper twice in this match. Once to invert Forcepower so the wedge isnt effective, and once more to stack it.

[andrewj]

Velociraptors Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

Forcepower Turbo (2 vs Firestorm V

Franks tactics can only work if he catches me and I sit there and let him slide under and push me. Firestorm hasnt got the best traction and pushing power in the world so Im going to use that to my advantage. Get to the side or back and push slam it against the walls over and over again. Then, try and get it into the pit. If Firestorm somehow gets under, pushes me to the wall and stacks me against it, Ill spin the wheels and simply shake ForcePower off.

Fantastic fights Richard!