All terrain combat rules

[Eventorizon]

YAY, I am not the only one thinking about this!

How about just a gigantic out door area, say 20 ft square, in a field with drops ramps streams, big puddles... a bit like Wetropolis on Full Metal Challenge. The 4 robots have to try and disable one another.

You would have to ban spinners, well I would, so that you can build in things like lifting arms and hydraulics for claws and the like.

Or you could have king of the hill, capture the point (I know a way to do it ) so many possibilities! Eeeeep!

I would go for something like Ripsaw MS1 but invertible with 2 pivoting spikes on the front, but thats just me!

[archie2000]

Has anyone seen takeshis castle (with craig charles)
at the end the contestants had water pistols and had to shoot paper.discs
how about.a.rexes robo challange robot (cheap)

[psycho_fling]

sounds like a great idea, could the first steps be smaller? just to test the idea

a pltform could be made with all the obstacles you would find say in a field or wasteland however alot smaller. this way everyone knows what to expect and obstacles and features could easily be changed and swapped over- naturaly for this idea the robots would need to be smaller than the the saint

[blazerbotics]

I would go for bigger robots, dont think feather sized would work as well and it will limit the areas you could run in, for example a FW sized machine would be stuck with anything bigger that a puddle whereas a heavyweight sized will happily going through a stream/low river. One of the plans with mine was to put a paintball gun on a moving turret on top.

[craig_colliass]

This is it

How deep could any water be how steep the hills if there is grass or other foliage how high. to start with I will put down some ideas and then say what you think.

Water depth about 150mm (with a wheel 300mm diameter that would be up to the axle. there could be water much deeper if people like the idea of amphibian robots!

Incline about 1 in 4 to 1 in 3.

Grass and similar about 300mm high.

The area could be anywhere any size, you could have it like Sumo so each robot must get the opponent over their base line or similar or could be more like the usual battles with the barrier made from earth, wood, WHY.

What do you think

[psycho_fling]

so this wouldnt just be a field or outdoor area? it would deliberatly modified?

[Ellis]

I think what is being described here is Full Metal Challenge on a smaller scale?

[Anttazz]

I think i'd rather see it done at random locations, unaltered just depending on where the events are held as long as they fit within suitable characteristics, for example, a maximum incline, water depth, etc.. If anything i'd mean that different robots have a chance of winning depending on which obstacle the builder has focused on more doing well at.

[Bodge Job]

Off road fighting robots are an awsome idea, but they would have to pretty big, even with heavyweight size robots I'd think they would struggle. But the idea of fighting at random places would be cool, means that the most adaptable robots would be best!