All terrain combat rules

[craig_colliass]

All terrain combat rules
If there were to be an all terrain robot fighting tournament.
What would it be like?
What would the rules be?
Safety considerations?

If the war games for fighting robots were outside what hazards would be allowed?
If it were outside there would be rain perhaps snow!
would water be considered as an option for a hazard?
could you make amphibian robots, if so could they have a weight advantage?
how about a vertical drop (cliff) you could push your opponent off!
How about a destruction race anything goes as long as you Finnish in front.
Night fighting with night vision glasses.
Or remote control the robot has a camera on board you see only from the robots perspective!

What do others think?

[archie2000]

i personally like the mine hazards in the Serbian army base on robot wars arenas of destruction
or how about getting run over by a tank hazard

[archie2000]

featherweight paintball!!!
how cool would that be
if we hire out an outdoor paintball place and get the robots to carry smoke and paint grenades
we could use henry1 6s outdoor mobile paintball service (then i could ask.for my robot back :|)

[craig_anto]

must resist temptation to build off road robot

[craig_anto]

OK I'm in

[Anttazz]

Good way to get shot of all the ground-scrapping flippers, and at the moment Seraph/Saint would probably win it, so can see why you're pushing for it Craig

Just kidding, I remember discussing this with you at the FW Champs last year actually, would be pretty fun to try it with robots that already exist. Could maybe try it with Saint/Chimera if we're at the same event sometime that happens to be near some flipper-proof terrain

[blazerbotics]

i already have one....

... ature=plcp

[Anttazz]

i already have one....

... ature=plcp

Ohhh yeah, forgot all about that

[craig_colliass]

The idea is to try to think outside the cardboard container. To see if there is other types of robot combat other than just robot wars type shows. Not that there is anything wrong with them. But to see if there is a crossover type of contest that may grow organically into another type of event.

Environment dictates the design of the robots. Change the environment the robots change or adapt to make them successful in the new environment.

Saint would work in the new environment but I'm scrapping that after this year (If funds permit) anyway.
But the idea of having robots running round a wooded area or able to cross small streams run like an ATV have obstacle courses for the machines to go over all adds new dimensions to robot combat.

This thread is just to ask the questions if we did something what would be the rules people might think necessary?
Keep commenting I love to read them.

[RogueTwoRobots]

It would be quite cool to have missions, kind of like Rescue Robots that was on Citv or Channel 4 a few years back (never actually saw it, just remember reading about it in the Real Robots mags).

So you could set a mission where the machines have to go and retrieve a toxic waste container that's been accidentally dumped in a built-up area and place it in a safe zone (so you'd have to incorporate some sort of lifting arm to pick up/carry the container) but to keep the combat aspect in it, you could have two teams competing against each other to reach the same container. If your machines cross paths with the opposition, you have to fight it out and hinder your opponent in order to be the first team to retrieve the container and succeed with the mission.

Just a random out-loud thought, but it would make for enjoyable viewing