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[bartmanhomer]

Wow all that stuff for a fantasy robot battle entry? This forum aint playing around.

thing is, us guys would LOVE to build our own robots, buying the fanciest parts and best armours one can find, but because we dont have the resources to do so, we make fantasy robots, describing what we WOULD BUILT if we had the money, as detailed as we can, giving the person whos tournament we enter no questions about how the robot would look, or perform, were it real

[bartmanhomer]

Ok. What about the Sir Spinalot weight of 30mm titanium armor and the whole thing?

30 mm is too much. Usually when you have an active weapon, you need to thin down the armour to cpmensate for the weight of the moving parts. The only robots that can have really thick armour are rambots with passive wedges.

Lets use Storm 2 as an example. The front armour was thicker as they were using this to deflect spinners. This was 1.2 CMs I believe. Everywhere else, the armour was something like 6 mms.

Most people just say something like 8 mms because its easier than saying 5 mms at the sides, 6 mms at the back, 7 mms at the front, but reinforced to 1 CM at critical areas.

For Sir Spinnalot, Id recommend something like 5-6 mms, but thats guesswork. Ive never been good at estimating weight, so if anyone better than me wants to chip in, feel free.

Can you check my new design.

TRI-TAINIUM

€ WEIGHT: 100kg

€ ARMOUR: 4mm Hardox for the back/scoop. The top and bottom panels are 5mm Titanium and the sloped sides are 6mm Hardox to sheild the wheels.

€ SHAPE: Low invertible box with a front scoop( the scoop has a slight dip in it to help get under other robots better) and sloped sides.

€ MOTORS: 2 x LEM 130€™s at 36V = 18HP

€ LOCOMOTION: 4 Vulkanised Wheels.

€ DIMENSIONS: (L) 60CM (H) 20CM (W) 60CM

€ COLOUR: Unpainted, with the exception of the name on top written in black paint.

€ WEAPONRY: The weaponry consists of 3 x 9kg discs, made out of 1cm of Titanium with 3 Hardox bludgening teeth. The discs are set on the same axle, and amounted deep into the scoop, with the teeth just reaching towards the lip of the scoop, so the uppercut movement of the discs can attack base-panels and the like. The discs are powered by 2 x LEM130s at 36V. Set on a ratio of 5:1, it gives off 3500rpm. The discs, combined together make 27kg, so the force given out is 165kj per hit! Large amounts of Rubber amounted behind the scoop stops the risk of self-destruction.

€ SPEED: 18mph

€ GROUND CLEARANCE: 0MM-1CM. At the front, it is completely 0mm. On the sides/rear, its 1cm.

€ STRENGTH: Weaponry.

€ WEAKNESS: Completely new design.

Ok Ill make Sir Spinalot armor 6mm.

Paul, Ive briefly scanned Tri-Taniums stats and I can only see two major flaws:

1) The armour is too thick to be realistic combined with your weapon system.

2) Youre being optimistic with your KJ count. It wont give 165 KJs, it will give 55 KJs in three seperate places. This isnt just being pedantic, because you cant guarantee that all three discs will hit.

Be as pedantic as you wish. I needed to have metioned that to make sure they ALL hit home, the discs are amounted at the front on the same axle, and are only seperated by a 5mm gap. So technically, it should hit roughly the same spot, and generate all that energy into the same area.

As for the armour:

ARMOUR: 3.25mm Hardox for the scoop. The top/rear and bottom panels are 5mm Titanium and the sloped sides are 5mm Hardox to sheild the wheels.

How does it look now?

I think the armour is about right now

your weapon is basically a single drum with 2 vertical gaps in it, of course when you hit something at an angle, your opponent does NOT feel the wrath of your entire weapon, so Franks kinda right there

also, did you calculate the power of a single disc (55 kJ, as Frank said), and multiply it by 3? If so, you made a mistake. Energy=0,5*mass*speed^2, so if your mass is multiplied by 3, your energy is multiplied by 0,5*3=1,5, meaning your output is 55*1,5=82,5 kJ (which isnt bad).

[bartmanhomer]

What about my robot whole stats?