Battlebots 2019
Discussion
It was a good one again this week, the main event was brilliant.
I don't see the point of Tantrum's 'punching spinner', they would have something more effective with a bigger static spinner in the front position where the punch moves it to now. Keep the wedge plates and it would work a bit like Cobalt, driving under robots and feeding them into the weapon.
Duck and Blacksmith aren't going to win judges decisions with the robots they've got. Without a decent weapon (Blacksmith's hammer looks cool but doesn't really do much) they lose out on damage every time.
A little bit off topic, there's a robot fighting PC game on Steam called Robot Champions, its a free demo at the moment because it's an alpha version. It has a few different design robots (spinner, flipper, hammer, pusher) and some different arenas with different hazards. As it develops its supposed to be getting a robot builder, and the damage models etc will be getting better. Its arcade, a bit of a Rocket League thing going on, it looks fun though, and it's free for now.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1016830/Robot_C...
FourWheelDrift said:
There's good and bad in that defeat, the good that he can be defeated, the bad you know he will find out what caused it, fix it and not lose that way again.
He also has multiple replacements for all the parts, so killing that one just means the next fight will effectively be a new robot, not a repaired one like some of the others would have to do.I don't see the point of Tantrum's 'punching spinner', they would have something more effective with a bigger static spinner in the front position where the punch moves it to now. Keep the wedge plates and it would work a bit like Cobalt, driving under robots and feeding them into the weapon.
Duck and Blacksmith aren't going to win judges decisions with the robots they've got. Without a decent weapon (Blacksmith's hammer looks cool but doesn't really do much) they lose out on damage every time.
A little bit off topic, there's a robot fighting PC game on Steam called Robot Champions, its a free demo at the moment because it's an alpha version. It has a few different design robots (spinner, flipper, hammer, pusher) and some different arenas with different hazards. As it develops its supposed to be getting a robot builder, and the damage models etc will be getting better. Its arcade, a bit of a Rocket League thing going on, it looks fun though, and it's free for now.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1016830/Robot_C...
ajprice said:
It was a good one again this week, the main event was brilliant.
I don't see the point of Tantrum's 'punching spinner', they would have something more effective with a bigger static spinner in the front position where the punch moves it to now. Keep the wedge plates and it would work a bit like Cobalt, driving under robots and feeding them into the weapon.
Watched it last nightI don't see the point of Tantrum's 'punching spinner', they would have something more effective with a bigger static spinner in the front position where the punch moves it to now. Keep the wedge plates and it would work a bit like Cobalt, driving under robots and feeding them into the weapon.
Agreed, for the extra complexity involved Tantrum didn't have any real benefits over a standard one.
I thought it might help launch the other bot in the air more but really didn't, as you say, needs a re-think!
ajprice said:
Duck and Blacksmith aren't going to win judges decisions with the robots they've got. Without a decent weapon (Blacksmith's hammer looks cool but doesn't really do much) they lose out on damage every time.
I love Duck, fantastic design, but as you say, no real offensive weapon so can usually only win if the other bot breaks/fails Regarding axe bots, yeah, they look cool (flaming ones!) but, has there ever been a sucessful ax-bot ? I don't think so!
However, it would be quite boring having all the same type, but in reality they'll always struggle to win if it goes to a judges decision
What I find surprising is that so far, there hasn't been any design emulating 'Chaos 2' from Robotwars of yore.
I think it would still be a sucessfull style of bot
This series has been fantastic so far, lots of very comptetitive bots - kicks 'Robotwars' for 6 !
ajprice said:
He also has multiple replacements for all the parts, so killing that one just means the next fight will effectively be a new robot, not a repaired one like some of the others would have to do.
Some of the teams have taken this to extremes. Duck, Bronco, Lockjaw, Biteforce and probably some of the others had complete second robots ready to go. Good job too - apparently Cobalt managed to twist the entire chassis of Duck during their crazy match. Given that Ducks chassis is machined from a single 6061 aluminium billet and it's thinnest section is 2 inches that's fairly impressive...ajprice said:
MikeyC said:
What I find surprising is that so far, there hasn't been any design emulating 'Chaos 2' from Robotwars of yore.
I think it would still be a sucessfull style of bot
Maybe the next series?...I think it would still be a sucessfull style of bot
Desperado tournament this week, should be great. I'm half hoping that Minataur get their weapon working as intended and it's just a episode of them laying waste to the whole field.
ajprice said:
I don't see the point of Tantrum's 'punching spinner', they would have something more effective with a bigger static spinner in the front position where the punch moves it to now. Keep the wedge plates and it would work a bit like Cobalt, driving under robots and feeding them into the weapon.
I kind of though the same but it was nibbling away at the competition, and it certainly had a hand in flipping it's opponent. The beauty of it is it can retract out of the way of horizontal spinners, protecting itself, then deploy at the right time. The actual "punching" element seemed irrelivent. More "retracting"
hairykrishna said:
ajprice said:
MikeyC said:
What I find surprising is that so far, there hasn't been any design emulating 'Chaos 2' from Robotwars of yore.
I think it would still be a sucessfull style of bot
Maybe the next series?...I think it would still be a sucessfull style of bot
How well it would do, who can say - certainly things have moved on a bit since then
Would easily deal with most ax-bot types tho'
ajprice said:
Desperado
Minotaur - Ouch !Will they be lucky against 'Lucky' ?
In reality, would expect it to be between Minotaur & End Game, except they're in the same half!
Can't really remember much about Black Dragon or War Hawk ....
hairykrishna said:
I'm surprised they let Ragnarok in. It's done bugger all so far. I reckon Minotaur if it works. End game if it doesn't. Capt Shred might be a dark horse though - they did really well in one of the Chinese competitions but just seem to break down randomly in BattleBots.
That's why they've entered the Desperado Tournament.The Tournament is now available.
AlexS said:
I meant let them into the desparado - they had to turn some teams down last year. I'd be well pissed off if I was the Lucky team. Ragnarok should have been 8th seed and fed to Minotaur.Top quality episode. The final was an amazing fight.
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