How Could I Improve...

[craig_anto]

well then be stricter on ur definition of what a walker is

[team_britespark]

**Revamp**

Name: Supreme Glory Omega
Weight: 100kg
Armour: 20mm Lexan and LexiGuard compound and 4mm Grade 5 Titanium skirts.
Speed: 18mph, running of 2 x S28-400 MagMotors running at 24v.
Batteries: 4 x 24v 3600mAh NiCD Battlepacks.
Shape: Box shaped with Ti skirts on each side.
Weapon 1: An 11kg Aluminium alloy axe powered by liquid Nitrogen running at 1000psi. The axe mechanism is a rack and pinion system, using a 100mm stroke, 80mm bore pneumatic cylinder.
Strengths: Strong armour and very manoeuvrable.
Weaknesses: Axe only works if something is in front or behind the robot.
Ground Clearance: 0mm all around due to skirts.
Srimech: The axe self rights the robot.
Notes: The 2 wheels are made from Ti/V alloy and coated in Vulcalore to aid in traction. The robot is covered in 20mm Lexan and LexiGuard compound. The axe weighs a total of 11kg and is shaped like Excaliburs axe from series 3 of Robot Wars. This shape is designed to focus all the force on a single point, meaning it can pierce through armour easily. To stop the robot hopping around when the axe is fired, the robot incorporates a vacuum system. This system basically sucks SG0 to the ground and is mainly used when fighting pushers or robots with superior pushing power. This mechanism can be knocked on and off during the match. The robot carries 4kg of liquid Nitrogen on board and has roughly 35 hits per fight. The axe can come down with roughly 2 tonnes of force at the tip, meaning that the axe could knock certain opponents out in one hit.

What do you guys think of my machine?
Name: Cyrilium
Weight:100kg
Armour: A fictional material called cyrilium. Hence, the name. 1.5cm of cyrilium.
Speed: 20mph
Batteries: 1 USA Interstate Batteries 24V 54 amp R34 car battery.
Shape: Sort of a capital T, with a wedge on the top, and a wedge on the bottom.
Weapon: None, unless the wedges on the front an back count.
Strengths: Almost Invincible, Pretty Fast.
Weakness: Not Invertable
Ground Clearence: 1mm everywhere except for the wedges which are 0mm.
Srimech: none
Notes: Cyrilium is very hard to damage, since the fictional metal cyrilium is very tough and light. The robots internal components are very simple, since there is no active weapon. Since it is so hard, 5mm cyrilium metal can stand up to anything but spinners. Therefore, if I want to add more motors, I will trim the armour down to 1cm.

(Message edited by Corsair_Lightning on March 17, 200

Big problem with Cyrilium - Its almost a direct rip-off of the first Kustom.

Sum1 plz look at my vapourbots and check they r OK.U can find them on my profile.I know its NIcad overkill but I couldn think of anythin else!

[joey_picus]

I think youre kind of underestimating the damage vapourbots do on the armour of some of them, 12mm lexan and 9mm aluminum wont stand up to that much, youre looking at at least 4mm Hardox or 6mm titanium to withstand damage adequately. The details could be improved - a rough estimate of dimensions would help, we need to know what gas powers the weapons (CO2 has max 750psi but gives more flips, Nitrogen goes up to 1000psi but loses power quickly) and for drive motors state more clearly what they are: http://www.robotcombat.com/products/motors_main.htmlhttp://www.robotcombat.com/products/motors_main.html will help here.
Basically, the main motors used here are either the various types of Magmotors or Lynch motors (LEM130/170/200). For most of your robots, S28-400 Mags should be sufficient to move them around, and for System Shock Id go for the LEM130s, which are what Storm II uses. You wont get more than 4 of them in 100kg though, at most. It would also help if you put them in a clear layout, like most people use.

The concept of all of them is very good though, theyre not horrifically overweight like some and you seem to be quite good in certain areas like batteries and body shapes. Not a bad start.

[corsair_lightning]

I understand, but I have worked very hard to get Cyrilium just the way I want it. Since the cyrilium is super strong, are their any mechanical problems that need to be addressed with Cyrilium?

Its the super strong cyrilium thats the problem - it gives you an unfair advantage, and nobody knows how dense or how strong exactly it is so it could be massively overweight.

[corsair_lightning]

It is super-light, and super-strong. 1 square metre that is 2mm thick weighs 1/2kg. But, if you insist, I will trim the armour down to 1cm, thereby decreasing the weight to 95kg.