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...all others go to hell.
Anyway, what is your favorite basic design? Vote and then post further comments.
Also, which individual battlebot do you like the best? Personally, I like Dissector- good solid disign, combo wedge, clampbot and hammerbot.
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TN, USA
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Posted: 3/20/2002 11:01:15 AM EDT
[Last Edit: 3/20/2002 11:02:32 AM EDT by lurker]
actually, i like wedge/spinners (cones?). spikes are good to poke holes, but a good spinner/blade just hacks the other bots to little bits, spraying them all over the arena.
it's a good thing they dont allow projectile weapons, or i'd figure out how to mount a 1911 on a bot. spectators, beware!
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USA
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Posted: 3/20/2002 11:04:16 AM EDT
Forget that...I'd mount a Remington 870 with Dragons Breath shells...magnesium would melt right through their armor.
Pressure Drop was a pretty decent spike... enough power to penetrate armor, long enough spike to do real damage... slow as hell, though.
Overkill is worthless...
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IN, USA
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Posted: 3/20/2002 11:25:17 AM EDT
I'm actually working on a battlebot design, I am still waiting to get a ruling on weither a plasma cutter is considered an open flame [:D]
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TX, USA
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Posted: 3/20/2002 11:29:24 AM EDT
I think they do allow projectiles but they have to be retractable. I downloaded the rules one time but haven't looked in awhile. I was thinking something like a huge Lead boxing glove powered by compressed air and a reel in device of some sort.
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USA
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Posted: 3/20/2002 11:52:48 AM EDT
I've floated the idea of building one, but I lack time and funding. My idea would be a spike/clamp bot. Have two steel, sawtooth arms lock around another bot horizontally. And the spike would be reflexive/automatic. When something strikes a forward mounted plate on the bot, it automatically actuactes a CO2 or nitrogen-powered spike on the front... would shoot forward about six inches with enough speed and power to peirce lexan.
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MO, USA
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Posted: 3/20/2002 11:55:30 AM EDT
Ziggo! Spinning death...
However my two other faves are Complete Control and Toro. I love it when Complete Control dominates a fight, and Toro gets the nod for the annihilation of all comers in the melee a season (or two) ago.
Viper Out
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NY, USA
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Posted: 3/20/2002 12:01:29 PM EDT
Jay Leno's ChinChilla
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SC, USA
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Posted: 3/20/2002 12:03:12 PM EDT
[Last Edit: 3/20/2002 12:05:17 PM EDT by NOVA5]
spinners are cool. my plan (that will never be built because i dont have the green or time or desire) would be a spinner/jumper jump it ontop of another bot, penetrate its armor with angled spikes and lock them in the out position.now the bots are one. sure the underbot can drive. but the offbalancing this will cause will make it difficult. plus start the spinner and add even more... interesting effects to the pair. as an added bonus if the other one is a spinner and tries to spin to toss him off. the spikes will rip his internals to shreads. once declared winner he will unlock and jump up and down on the corpse.. ;)
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USA
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Posted: 3/20/2002 12:13:15 PM EDT
No one voted for the wedge yet, & I wanted to stick up for it. But they don't WIN.
The best fight I've ever seen was a whatzit get shredded to little pieces by a spinning blade (Wish I could remember the name of it).
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USA
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Posted: 3/20/2002 12:14:20 PM EDT
I would submit that Leno's bot shouldn't count. He neither designed nor built it himself... rather, he hired professionals to do it for him.
Same with that little puffball who entered a bot that he purchased on ebay... If he made some significant changes in design, I would say cut him some slack, but he basically entered the thing "as is". The point of the game is destructive creativity... not supply/demand. [:(!]
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Posted: 3/20/2002 12:15:55 PM EDT
I was watching battlebots last night. In the middle weight class (I believe) one of the robots had a lift arm that was actuated by a CO2 powered ram. If another robot flipped it over they ooperated the lift arm and it throws the robot about 5 feet in the air and does a back 1 1/2 flip. It was quite impressive, the strongest offensive weapon I have seen yet.
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USA
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Posted: 3/20/2002 12:19:12 PM EDT
Originally Posted By 1:
No one voted for the wedge yet, & I wanted to stick up for it. But they don't WIN.
The best fight I've ever seen was a whatzit get shredded to little pieces by a spinning blade (Wish I could remember the name of it). |
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MO, USA
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Posted: 3/20/2002 12:19:46 PM EDT
Originally Posted By SNIPERm88:
I was watching battlebots last night. In the middle weight class (I believe) one of the robots had a lift arm that was actuated by a CO2 powered ram. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 3/20/2002 12:28:38 PM EDT
Are Diamond grinding wheels legal for weaponry? I'd assume one spinning at a fairly high rate would be sufficient to cut through most of the other bot's armor. of course, spinning it that fast would be the problem, I suppose.
I'm taking machine shop and we occasionally are visited by a guy who's building parts for his bot (he's already fought once, with Sallad). It's cool to see the part's he's making. His is a middle or lightweight, forget which.
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MO, USA
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Posted: 3/20/2002 12:35:58 PM EDT
Originally Posted By Timber_Wolf:
World_Wolf/Dire_Wolf/Daishi: 3 accounts locked and still going strong!
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Posted: 3/20/2002 12:39:41 PM EDT
Originally Posted By Steelviper:
That would be T-minus. Brought to you by the same people who made Toro.
Viper Out |
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USA
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Posted: 3/20/2002 12:40:29 PM EDT
Originally Posted By Steelviper:
Originally Posted By Timber_Wolf:
World_Wolf/Dire_Wolf/Daishi: 3 accounts locked and still going strong!
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TN, USA
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Posted: 3/20/2002 12:55:15 PM EDT
[Last Edit: 3/20/2002 1:08:47 PM EDT by lurker]
Originally Posted By 1:
No one voted for the wedge yet, & I wanted to stick up for it. But they don't WIN.
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MO, USA
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Posted: 3/20/2002 1:07:12 PM EDT
Originally Posted By Timber_Wolf:
Are you a Battletech lover, or do you just play the computer games (Mechwarrior)? |
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Posted: 3/20/2002 1:20:16 PM EDT
I like Ziggo alot, but I think my all time favorite is BioHazard. I haven't watched every show (I hear that BioHazard HAS been beat) but he's still a tough one.
-Gloftoe
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USA
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Posted: 3/20/2002 1:34:35 PM EDT
Originally Posted By Steelviper:
Originally Posted By Timber_Wolf:
Are you a Battletech lover, or do you just play the computer games (Mechwarrior)? |
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SC, USA
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Posted: 3/20/2002 1:53:11 PM EDT
I'd like to see a spinning cone, with retractable spikes all round. Wedge/spinner combo. If flipped, pop the spikes to flip back over.
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Posted: 3/20/2002 2:01:34 PM EDT
Originally Posted By Steelviper:
Ziggo! Spinning death...
Viper Out |
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VGB
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Posted: 3/20/2002 2:07:45 PM EDT
[Last Edit: 3/20/2002 2:09:41 PM EDT by CLP]
Originally Posted By Timber_Wolf:
I remember when heavyweight Vlad the Impaler got shredded by a horizontal spinning blade... can't rember the name of it. |
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USA
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Posted: 3/20/2002 2:24:39 PM EDT
Mechavore... that's right. Thanx, CLP.
Imagine if they made an all terrian version of him with the brains of a Predator drone... Not much tactical value to the military, but imagine the damage to morale if you had a bunch of legless viet congs or talibanners... Maybe even smear the blade with feces... [(:)]
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Posted: 3/20/2002 7:22:45 PM EDT
I prefer the shover robot, cause shoving will protect me.
Actually, spinners are where it is at, unless it sucks enout to let a flipper get under it. Which one had the spinning hammers. That thing kicked ass.
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USA
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Posted: 3/22/2002 6:05:21 PM EDT
Wonder how many of us could have one of these bad boys ready in time for the BRC.
Pretty much no rules, except maybe a 100-LB weight limit to stop anyone from building one on a car frame (Like Wilson's monster "Pro-forator" [:D]).?
Or, maybe just RC-10s to keep the cost manageable?
Any interest, or thoughts?
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