Gah - the return of the last-to-be-chosen one

[team_orr]

Gah,

So im still alive! Good to see this place is too. I've been hit really hard recently with revision so took a bit of a break from everything. Now college wants me to get more writing experience so i can go on the advanced writing course so here i am.

I'm not entirely sure how many people are still active here, so i guess i should make this sort of small. I need 5 people to enter 2 robots each, heavyweights preferably. Im not promising much but hopefully if i get entries relatively soon i can finish this in a few months?

Cheers,
Elvis

...No my name isn't actually Elvis. God have i been gone that long?

[archie2000]

Re: Gah - the return of the last-to-be-chosen one

Combat robots are on the increase of popularity.
You will have no problem finding heavyweight roboteers

[kodster]

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I think he means vapourbots.

Haze of Dread
Seung Mina VII

Hope those are okay, Jack. Good to see you around these parts, it's getting rather lonely here!

[team_orr]

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Yeah,

i meant vapourbots. Hence the FanFic sub forum :P Good to hear the Real sport is still on the rise anyway, might need to dust mine off soon.

Cheers for that Kody. I got the feeling this place wasn't going to be as lively a while ago. Good to hear theres still a few old hands kicking around!

[NWOWWE]

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From the land of ARC, here's N-Wow-We!

Much thanks to Kody for helping with FRA stats.

Truth or Consequences:

Shape: A box with an extruded top. The CAD explains it better.
Colour: Blue body with some grey siding and a silver flipping arm.
Weight: 100kg
Drive: 2 LEM130 motors run at 48 volts
Locomotion: 6WD semi-inner; go-kart wheels with aluminum hubs.
Speed: 14mph
Armour: 8mm Grade 5 titanium
Ground Clearance: 0mm at front. 10mm elsewhere.
Turning Circle: 0m
Length: 100cm
Width: 85cm
Height: 40cm
Weapon: A powerful flipping arm run off two 2kg CO2 tanks and a 100mm bore 180mm stroke ram. It can flip around 25 times. It also has a 5mm hardox ram plate at the back of the robot for protection against spinners.
Srimech: Flipper



Revolver Ocelot:

Shape: A low box with a tapered front and an angled rear piece
Colour: Black
Weight: 100kg
Drive: 2 A28-400 Ampflows running on 24v
Locomotion: 4WD outer
Speed: 12mph
Armour: 7mm Grade 5 titanium
Ground Clearance: 10mm
Turning Circle: 0m
Length: 130cm
Width: 75cm
Height: 15cm
Weapon: 15kg Hardox spinning bar, 2000rpm, should put out around 50kJ
Weapon motor: LEM130 running on 36v
Srimech: Invertible

[joey_picus]

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Gabriel V and Flirty Skirty please for Gabriel 5 the stats are in the usual place. For Flirty Skirty it should take some creative writing not to use the words 'stripy' and 'box' when describing it...

[swimm3r]

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Robot Name: Apocalypse II
Weight: 100kg
Shape: Box wedge with sloped sides, ala Storm II. The front wedge is angled at 30* to get under opponents, and the sides are sloped at 42* to deflect spinners. The rear is rounded for easier self-righting.
Length: 85cm
Width: 75
Height: 20cm
Motivation: 2 x internal HDPE wheels, each are 175mm in diameter and they have vulcanised tyres for extra grip, plus they are mounted like Tazbot€™s for more manouevrability. They are in the front of the robot so that the front turns rather than the rear, ala Merlin.
Drive: 2 x S28-400 magmotors run @ 24v from 2 x 3600mAh NiCad battlepacks; this should provide about 9 horsepower.
Armour: 3.2mm hardox monocoque for the most part, strengthened in certain key areas with extra 5mm titanium/vanadium alloy sheeting.
Weaponry: The robot is a decent pusher, but on top there are three sets of Mute-style barbs, one on each side and one running down the flipper arm. They run all the way along the top of the robot and slope down the wedge, and are tungsten tipped to allow it to trap robots on top, and once their stuck on top they can€™t get free.
The second weapon is what I use to get rid of the robot stuck on the barbs. It is a Bio-Hazard style 4-bar flipping arm, but unlike Bio-Hazard it is run off full pressure pneumatics, meaning it will easily throw robots out of the arena. It is 30cm wide and runs down the centre of the robot, made of 4mm hardox and powered by a 120mm x 100mm bore stroke ram @ 750psi from a 1.5kg gas bottle, giving it about 10 flips per round, which should be enough. On the front of the flipper arm there is a strip of 8mm grade 2 titanium, which should aid in getting under the other robots. The two barb-strips on the outer sides are themselves electrically actuated via an A28-150 magmotor @ 24v, hinged at the rear. to be used to conserve gas when self-righting and also to tip robots into the pit/used as lifting arms should the flipper fail.
Speed: 20mph
Ground Clearance: 0 at front, 8mm at sides and rear, but this is protected by 5mm titanium skirts made of grade 2 titanium.
Turning Circle: Using the skid steer system ala Razer gives Apocalypse II a 0 turning circle
Srimech: The 4-bar flipper can right it in less than a second, but to conserve gas the lifting barbs on either side of the machine are generally used, righting the robot in 1 second.
Colour: Apocalypse II keeps the colour scheme of the old one, with dark blue bodywork and a red weapon. The barbs are black.
Strengths: Powerful weaponry, unique strategy
Weaknesses: Limited gas for the flipper

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Robot Name: System Shock 4.0
Shape: Box wedge with sloped sides, the front wedge is angled at 60* to flip opponents and the sides are angled at 42* to deflect spinners, the front wedge has a 3cm long extension with a Firestorm-style blade, this extension is angled at 30* to get right in underneath opponents, then ram them so they get flipped by the main 60* wedge, it also has a Tornado style angled rear
Weight: 110kg
Length: 80cm (83cm with wedge extension)
Width: 80cm
Height: 20cm
Motivation: 4 x CNC Alumnium internal, but invertible wheels, they have a v-belt groove in the treads and a v-belt between the wheels so they count as tracks, but if they break the robot is not affected at all and the robot simply becomes a wheeled robot, leaving the tracks behind
Drive: 2 x LEM-200s @ 60v
Batteries: 250 C-Cell NiCad batteries
Armour: 4mm hardox monocoque with up to 7mm in key areas
Weaponry:
1) Drive power
2) At the rear there are two (static) diamond tipped ramming spikes, they are placed either side of the angled rear
3) The front wedge (and the extension) can lift up and down via an S28-150 at 24v. The wedge is hinged in the middle so it can work both ways up. This front wedge is interchangeable for a vertical tornado style 5kg disc with 2 x tungsten blades like Hypno-Disc's, the disc is spun by an S28-150 at 3000rpm, which it can reach in 1.5 seconds and when at that speed it can deliver a 17.8Kj hit. It is 150mm in diameter, 3cm thick and there is 1.5cm distance of rotattion to the centre of the disc, it is made of titanium/vanadium alloy
Speed: Can be pushed to 28mph, but mostly kept lower for more control (about 17mph)
Turning Circle: 0
Ground Clearance: 0 at the front, 10mm the rest of the way around, but that is protected by 5mm titanium hinged skirts at the sides and rear that flop over when the robot is inverted
Srimech: Invertible
Colour: Light blue with the name written in yellow on top
Strengths: Speed and Power
Weaknesses: Some people will be cheesed off by this clear exploitation of the weight advantage given to tracks
Notes: This one was my favourite because it did so well in VFT lol so bringing it back

[andrewj]

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Good to see you, Jack.

Exertion II and Fissure for me, please.

[death robotics]

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I'm in if there's still a space, I'll put my entries up later tonight

[kodster]

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So, uh... any news on this? :sad:

[team_orr]

Re: Gah - the return of the last-to-be-chosen one

Hey,
Sorry about the delay, just had a massive science exam so I spent most of the last week revising like a loon. Cheers for all the entrys, didn't expect it to fill up that quick.

So, the entry's:

A Jar of pickled eggs: Exertion II and Fissure
Mr Aquatic man: Apocalypse 2 and System Shock 4.0
El Presidente: Gabriel and Flirty Skirty
Unpronounceable List of wrestling franchises: Truth or Consequences and Revolver Ocelot
Lord Kody of Scunthorpe: Haze of dread and Seung Mina VII

Ben there aren't any spaces left but I herby appoint you chancellor of Spanish Shenanigans. Take that as you will. Remember, with great power comes great responsibility.

A draw of sorts:

1: Haze of dread vs truth or consequences
2: Revolver Ocelot vs Gabriel
3: System Shock 4.0 vs Flirty Skirty
4: Apocolypse 2 vs Exertion II
5: Seung Mina vII vs Fissure

If that's all good then tactics and the like are welcome... Or are they?!?
Jack

Yes I am taking this seriously! Avast ye vile heven!

[NWOWWE]

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Haze of Dread vs. Truth or Consequences

-It's been awhile since ToC has fought a spinner but let's try this: Start in reverse and use the ramplate to stop the weapon.

-Ideally make a quick follow-up with the flipper and start flipping. The ideal goal would be to flip him completely out of the arena, but getting in lots of flips keeps him on the ropes.

-Anytime he's coming at me with his weapon I want to attack with the ram plate. As much as possible only give him that to attack.

-Otherwise it's all about aggression, don't give him a chance to breath.

-Don't go near the pit under any circumstances whatsoever. I'd rather be slow cooked by the flames... I'd rather be demolished by Housebots... I'd even rather have a proctologist named Dr. Hook then end up near the pit.


Revolver Ocelot vs. Gabriel V

-A flipper with some speed on me. All right this calls for a more defensive approach. He has a very narrow attack point so I know exactly where he's attacking from.

-Just wait him out and focus on keeping my weapon facing him.

-Stay in open space and be wary if he's trying to maneuver me towards hazards. Drive back to safe areas if I notice I'm getting too close to something dangerous.

-He can flip me over, but I can still work reasonably effectively oriented either way so don't sweat it too much if it happens.

-Again, I don't even want to know the pit exists. If I somehow actually managed to KO him then I will attack the pit button and try to irreparably destroy it before security throws me out of the building bodily.

Good Luck guys!

[joey_picus]

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System Shock 4.0 vs. Flirty Skirty

erm...go over to it and attempt to lift it with the skirts. Fail. Survive. Fail at that too. Reconsider life choices.

Gabriel V vs. Revolver Ocelot

I shall take the ears off of Gabriel, largely as I suspect bad language may be involved but also so the bar can't get them. I shall also take the skirts off as I think the wheels will be safe from damage as long as I keep hitting RO with the front - my 2WD and extra speed should (in theory) ensure that's all that happens and he never gets around the sides, just keep hitting him with the front and stopping the weapon and getting underneath - and the skirts, if hit, are liable to buckle and impede my own movement with the floor.

I don't know if using the flipper will help much - if I can get well underneath and stop the bar, I will take the opportunity to flip Revolver Ocelot over once, but only once, so the bar is higher off the floor and will hit the armour rather than the edges of the robot, but otherwise flipping is not my main tactic (if the flipper's open, RO can grab an edge, which would be a bad thing (tm). With how angled the body is, I don't think he can do much except paintwork scratching, so the basic tactic will be to use his own bouncing off the angled armour against him and try and get him into/shove him down the pit. Or something resembling that...

Best of luck everyone

[kodster]

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Haze of Dread vs. Truth or Consequences

Typical. Josh's first opponent is myself. Time to send out the welcome wagon.

Well, for one, I don't fancy myself sitting on top of that massive flipper so I'm gonna duck off to the front surrounding it. I can probably leave some nice damage in that Titanium armour and I could quite possibly get under him with one of my side arms, in which case I will flip him over and attack. Keep the fight near the middle of the arena and don't let him get me near the wall.

Revolver Ocelot vs. Gabriel V

Actually, I do see Ocelot winning this, but then that would mean Joey wouldn't get a robot through. :P Uhm...both of them implode and get replaced by Fairground Killride?

System Shock 4.0 vs Flirty Skirty

Yeah like I said, Joey wouldn't get a bot through. Unless Liam pulls a Rex Garrod and drives down the pit. :P

Apocalypse II vs Exertion II

The IIs! Let's see...tough to call, but I think Exertion can hang tough with the flipper and possibly earn a JD. Maybe a pitting too.

Seung Mina VII vs Fissure

Ungh. Mina hasn't done well since Liam's ETC08 shindig. Five years! :shock: Let's change that...

Mina works well either way up, so Fissure will be very hard pressed to control Mina. Let's go for an aggressive approach. I will try and get Fissure out of the arena as fast as possible, but otherwise conserve my flips, even if I wedge him. Carry him to the wall and flip. Mina is a pretty powerful flipperbot so I'm sure she can achieve such a thing.

Good luck everybody.

[andrewj]

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Tactics and predictions from A Jar of pickled eggs...

Apocalypse II vs. Exertion II

Firstly, I will try to open the pit as soon as possible. Once the pit has been opened, I will try to use my lifting wedge to get under Apocalypse II's skirts and lift its wheels off the ground. Then I will carry it to the arena hazards (ala Panic Attack), preferably dumping it into the pit at the first opportunity. Generally try to stay as close to the centre of the arena as possible – Apocalypse II can flip me over as much as it likes there.

Seung Mina VII vs. Fissure

I want to focus all my attention towards the rear end of Seung Mina VII – if I can stay round the back I think I can control this battle. The most obvious weakness is Seung Mina VII's rear 50mm ground clearance, which I can easily exploit using the lifting arm. Again, lift its wheels off the ground and then feed it to the arena hazards. I could also try to use the lifting arm to joust at those exposed tyres.

I'll pick Truth or Consequences, Gabriel V and System Shock 4.0 to win the other battles. Good luck everyone!