Quote Originally Posted by HereticBlue View Post
I was thinking the same thing Haz. I don't think they'd be as successful here tbh, in a 1v1 situation it's fine but not in a melee. Same with the dustpan concept, easy to do but no-one here does it.
In a competition you only really get 1 on 1 so there is no point in designing a machine to deal with melee combat when its very rare in HW combat, and in a Melee things are so chaotic you just have to roll with the punched... or the flips, you just have to deal with things as they happen.

Something like SOB from the US or Complete control would be amazing, and I am sure you could make a compact 4 Bar with a bit of thought. I had wondered about mounting any gas and buffer tanks across the width of the bot rather than its length so you get a really wide lifter that can to is short, sharp bursts.