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Might be interesting to see it in EdWars/the impending grade 1 arena, although presumably only against the less famous crushers (Snakebite and Viper - have I got that right? I should know better, sorry.)
Mind you, if they got the right height so the blades didnt touch it, it might be interesting against Typhoon2... (more so than the anti-spinner weapon would have been, at least).
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Fluppet
what was their anti spinner weapon that i have heard so much about and yet never been given a description of?
My understanding (and Ive never seen it either) was that its a static spike, presumably very well supported, with a convenient mount of a thick layer of rubber which covers the outside of Tornado.
But its been years since I read that, so it might have been completely corrupted in my memory. Team Tornado?
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Fluppet
I know what it was. It was a set of tyres set up on a rotating frame, so when the spinner hit the tyres, the fram revolved and Tornado took no damage. It had no offensive capability, so it was banned.
Nope, that wasnt what it was either Frank !
It was an outer Titanium ring around Tornado which was shock mounted onto the chassis using tyres. This not only held the spinner at bay, but also took the shock impacts out of their attacks.
Saying it had no offensive capacity was pointless, their scoop had no offensive capability either, but that was allowed ! They could ram people with the scoop, or the front section of the anti-spinner weapon.
Sadly this was another example of Mentorn making changes to the rules as they went along !
Still, they were going to use it against Hypnodisc in Series 6 and won with the non-offensive scoop anyway :)
Ed
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Well, the wedge had two spikes at the top corners, so thats probably why it got past the series 6 rules in terms of offensive capabilities.
BTW: in series 7, they mentioned a weapon no.4, which was no good against flippers and never got used - what was it?
On their site, Andrew mentions them converting the ACW disk/bar into a vertical spinner.
Frank: interesting, and roughly what some people (including me) have been suggesting as an anti-Typhoon device. :-)
Ed: Thank you; clearly Id picked up on the shock mounting (I should have clarified that by outside I meant horizontally...) without picking up on the hard outer surface. I always thought having an entirely rubber outer coating was a recipe for leaving chunks of rubber all over the arena anyway. And Mentorn, inconsistent? Surely not! :-)
Stephen: Im interested too!
Mike: That sounds weird - I really cant see the advantage (other than possibly making it harder to chew the weapon). Ill have to go and have a look in a quiet moment.
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Fluppet
I was close... The principle was the same.
And yes, Tornados scoop does have offensive capability as it allows them to get under robots and push them more efficiently.
back to the whole robot as a weapon debate- in that respect tornado in that setup is just the same as storm 2 verion 1, which was not allowed as it had no offensive weapon! Ah, they joys of mentorn thinking/or lack of...