AJWars: A New Era...

[andrewj]

OK then! I€™ve been chatting to people recently and €˜behind the scenes€™ I believe that we all really want to come down from these crazy uber-bots and get back down to basics. Basically, this tournament it sort of a launch pad to try and influence writers and designers to take a step down from the Hardox armoured, LEMCO drive train, walking full body spinners. Lets get back to the simple €œyou build it - I€™ll believe it€ mentality with some cool wedges, MagMotor drive trains, Titanium armoured with a nice pneumatic flipper etc.

It€™s apparent people are running out of ideas, and tournaments are stumbling a bit with the same thing being entered over and over again. Its time to get creative and see what we can produce again.

The rules of this tournament are the same as usual, however I€™m looking for realism, I€™m looking for some cool ideas, I€™m looking to step down from the €œlets build a tank to stop MDU€ days. If anything is too over the top, it won€™t be allowed to compete. That doesn€™t mean to say you have to get designing a brand new robot, I think it would be interesting to see a few people also possibly €˜de-evolutionising€™ their current bots to fit the bill.

All I€™m looking for is maybe 8 people to enter one vapour bot each, real robots are obviously not permitted as they kind of defeat the object.

This is a call for everyone to bring FanFic back to its glory days! Lets have some variation, some interesting designs, back to basics. Maybe then we can influence the big tournaments to follow along and we can have some fun again.

Hope this generates some interest!

[matty_haka]

Well weight classes, numbers and a format wopuld be nice...?

[knightrous]

Reserve me a spot!

[majinb]

*reserves*

[matty_haka]

yeah and me...

[matty_haka]

B2B (Back 2 Basics)

Weight- 100.6kg
Dimensions- L-75cm W-54cm H- 36.5cm
Speed- 8.5mph/ 3.8 m/s. This however still gives excellent acceleration and the speed of the hits will help us do the Tornado thing
Shape- Normal Wedge, with rollbars on the back panel made from welded 1cm titanium.
Locomotion- 2 x 270mm diameter wheels with custom cut treads from an old adapted Go-Kart
Ground Clearance- 0 at front, 0 underneath hinged skirts at sides, 4mm underneath skirts and at back.
Turning Circle-0
Power- 2 x 36V Dustin Motors running off 3 x 24V TMC batteries weighing a total of 9kg for the batteries plus 2.6kg for the motors (Lightweight or what). It gives a total (Presuming efficiency is at maximum) of 4.42BHp. Not the best shover, but with the wedge shaped, the idea will be that before pushing you scoop the wheels off the ground.
Armour- 7mm Titanium/Vanadium Alloy all around weighing a total of 28.4940747kg for the whole body. The titanium bars on the back weigh a total of about 8.4kg.
Chassis- The chassis is made of 1cm aluminium bars, and weighs around 12kg.
Weapon 1- The weapon is a Helium powered flipper, with 2 x 3kg helium rams, capable of firing about 40 times within the course of a fight, and despite running off just 400psi, is easily capable of flipping 250kg. The rams in total, plus gas, and bottles etc. weighs around 16kg and the actual flipper is made out of 4mm Titanium/Vanadium alloy and is around two-thirds the width of the body and goes up the whole wedge. It weighs 5.022kg.
Weapon 2- the bottom of the front wedge is an entirely detachable wedge made of 1cm aluminium. It€™s been designed to be heavy enough to prevent the front wheelying when driving, and therefore means that it should be simple to flip any robots over. It covers about 10cm of the wedge, and is more than capable of resisting attacks. It€™s been designed well and uses the force of gravity and balance to keep it down, whilst only weighing 3.288384kg in total.
Removable Link Position- In a hole with a swinging flap about 10cm into the back panel, but you have to get past the rollbars to get to it.
Srimech- The flipper acts as a self-righter, and will always land on his wheels thanks to the rollbars on the back, once we self-right. The only time this won€™t work is if we can€™t get enough pressure in the ram to fire us over.
Strengths- Powerful, long-lasting weaponry. Manouvreable. Flipper should never fail to slide underneath.
Weaknesses- Not the best pusher in a straight shoving battle.

Weight Distribution-

Chassis- 12kg
Armour- 37kg
Batteries- 9kg
Motors- 2.6kg
Locomotion- 9kg
Weapons- 7kg
Weapon Power-16kg
Electronics-8kg
TOTAL- 100.6kg

[dogbot4000]

Ummm can I enter this robot
http://frwforums.proboards84.com/index.cgi?board=bots&action=display&thread=1138368 491http://frwforums.proboards84.com/ind...ay&thread=1138 368491

[kodster]

Im not reserving a spot: Im taking one!

Dysfunction 2.0

http://strickenone.proboards99.com/index.cgi?board=heavies&action=display&thread=1145 676420http://strickenone.proboards99.com/i...display&thread =1145676420

Pretty original.

[alex_holt]

Ill try and throw something together... or I might go for one of my more obscure bots.

[dinowarrior]

Hows about I enter Die-Ceratops Re-Invertus? Check the C+B2 Tournament for stats.