Quote Originally Posted by craig_colliass
That is right this is just an entertainment machine, not for the arena. I have Pilgrim as well, the idea is we can have a race, tug of war or some other competition between them.

I am looking at building a feather walker (this can be 26Kg double the normal limit.)

No walker combat machine has ever won any competition. I can only think of one fight a walker has won that was on Robot Wars a few years ago.

The reason is even with the weight advantage, they are by definition too complex and unreliable.

If you can fix this problem, they are too slow to make an effective combat platform.

you fix those two problems and you find the manoeuvrability is to unresponsive.

You fix that and you have a competitive walker that cost ten times as much as an equivalent wheeled machine.

That's what makes it interesting.
On the robot wars point, Jim Struts won the reserve rumble in series 2, Miss Struts won it's only battle in a fight with another walker in series 3, the other walker didn't move much bar spinning around. Clawed hopper won against Twister in series 5, the first robot to do so in the main competition. Drillzilla got to the final of the second world championship, and the German and Dutch robots Angsar and Scarab had limited success in other events, but i'm not sure if you count those because they are shufflebots. Then there was Anarchy in series 6 that got to the heat final, losing to Tornado. So there has been limited success. :P

Anyway, would Spiderbot satisfy the rules for walkers?