Fight the fourth

Supreme Glory Omega vs. Knyfe

Right then it€™s time for the 4th fight, between Danny and Paul, so let€™s begin with the thirteen gliding principles

The first robot into the arena today is the cleaning robot, as it quickly runs around the arena making sure the surface is free of any loose stuff, as the cleaning robot exits the arena, Supreme Glory Omega enters. Supreme Glory Omega is a box on wheels with skirts on all 4 sides to protect its sides from attack, no-body really knows what the ground clearance is underneath the skirts, but shall we assume it€™s a reasonable 5mm. The main weapon is a powerful axe on a rack and piston system, with an axe head which I€™m told looks like Excalibur from series 3, however owing to a lack of a picture found after 15 minutes of searching on Google, I shall have to try and describe it from the description given, it€™s an axe with the head with a singular sharp point designed to focus all the energy down that point, in addition it has another point on the reverse so that it can attack from the front or from the rear. To help the robot stay on the ground during fighting, there is a vacuum system underneath Supreme Glory Omega to suck it to the floor, also useful when fighting against rammers and flippers, up until the point where a wedge breaks the vacuum seal. With 2 wheels, Supreme Glory Omega is manoeuvrable, and with a top speed of 18 mph, its fast, however the main armour is plastic, so against a high powerful spinner, it could end up spread across the arena, so let€™s see what robot Supreme Glory Omega is up against?

The 2nd robot into the arena today is Knyfe, this multiple-choice weapon machine has decided to pick for some static front forks, starting off at 8mm thick at base, and running rather thin at the ends, designed to slide underneath other robots skirts so that the, in theory, 50 horsepower can slam the other robot around the arena, using it€™s Lem 200 motors and 6 wheels, the sides and rear are protected by skirts, and also with triangular sections running to a point. However with so much power on tap, will it just spin its wheels when attempting to put all that power down at once? Also there isn€™t much of a gap between the top €˜n€™ bottom plates with the Lem 200 motors which are rather thick at 20cm tall, so a lucky hit with an axe could cause problems with overheating of the motors if they can€™t get enough air though. Hopefully the Hardox armour will be enough to protect the robot, but the titanium base plate could be a weakness if Knyfe comes up against an axe €˜n€™ flipper combo.

And now, as Remy enters the arena, the fences go up, as the countdown begins

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Knyfe hasn€™t spun its wheels out trying to pull away as it puts down the power punching it€™s way up-to 20mph, as Supreme Glory Omega dodges the first attack with ease as Knyfe comes at Daniel€™s robot like a train on a fixed track, as Supreme Glory Omega spins around, and so does Knyfe, as it takes a long arc to return at speed, but all the speed in the world doesn€™t mean a thing as Supreme Glory Omega dodges the 2nd running attack, with the front forks trying to get underneath the skirts. Another long arc and yet another running attack from Paul, as he hopes Dan will make a mistake, but being around for ages, Dan has managed to master his controls and dodges Knyfe€™s attack.

However, Knyfe is away, so that Supreme Glory Omega can€™t turn around and try to put a hole or two in the top armour, or at least cause some damage, as Knyfe has another running attack as Supreme Glory Omega who simply dodges the attack. And this would happen for a 5th time if only for Paul to pull away suddenly as Knyfe was heading towards the pit, this gives Dan a chance at an attack, but before Supreme Glory Omega comes within axe-fighting range, Knyfe has dodged away, before spinning around and comes in for a side attack. Supreme Glory Omega spins around, but holds its position, Dan flicking the switch to turn on the vacuums as Supreme Glory Omega is sucked to the ground.

Crash

Both robots have met each other, and with 2 axe blows, blowing into the top of Knyfe, making a rather ugly looking dent in the top of Knyfe, Paul spins away, unable to get his front forks underneath the skirts of Supreme Glory Omega from that attack. Supreme Glory Omega gives chase, as Knyfe spins around and comes back towards Supreme Glory Omega with speed and manages to get underneath the front skirt, but not before Supreme Glory Omega lands a blow, as the spike of the axe finds the front wheel of Knyfe, slicing the vulkanised wheel like it was made out of wood, the axe comes back and Supreme Glory Omega manages to make an escape, with Knyfe€™s damaged wheel spinning away, throwing itself apart as Knyfe pulls to the right, as 3 driven wheels against 2 driven wheels, as Paul is looking worried.

Supreme Glory Omega spins around and comes back towards Knyfe, Paul manages to dodge, but Dan spinning around on the wheels comes back as Knyfe narrowly dodges the attack, but Supreme Glory Omega spins around once more and attacks Knyfe from the rear end, the axe firing backwards, the spike narrowly avoiding another wheel, but slicing down into the gap between wheel and chassis, as Knyfe pulls forward managing to pull Supreme Glory Omega backwards a bit, but a loud snapping noise is heard as the axe arm drops a bit further into the wheel gap. Supreme Glory Omega€™s wheels are spinning as it tries to pull Knyfe, but Paul puts on the power manages to escape the axe grip and pulls away, pulling madly to the right, as only the centre wheel is working on the right hand side, as the rear wheel is hanging limp, the snapping noise coming from the drive system as the chain snapped, as Supreme Glory Omega pulls around and moves back towards Knyfe. Knyfe has to be careful not to put too much power down as the 3 wheels on the left hand side against the 1 wheel on the right hand side gives the robot very bad handling, as Supreme Glory Omega slams into the rear end, riding the rear skirt as the axe fires.

Supreme Glory Omega hops around as the axe hits, the rear skirt of Knyfe breaking the vacuum seal, as Knyfe slams into reverse a snapping noise is heard as Knyfe tries to push Supreme Glory Omega backwards, Supreme Glory Omega€™s wheels are spinning on the arena surface trying to get grip before suddenly they get grip, sending Supreme Glory Omega backwards away from Knyfe and straight down the pit.

Cease

Knyfe manages to pull some sort of victory out of the hat when facing the jaws of defeat as Supreme Glory Omega ends up 4 feet underground. However the judge isn€™t happy and asks Knyfe to move to prove that it€™s still moving, as Knyfe goes around in a rather lovely circular arc, the right hand side dead, the snapping noise coming from the drive system, on closer inspection the broken chain from the front wheel which got destroyed early on snapped backwards within the robot and managed to pull something out to knock out the right hand side.

However as Supreme Glory Omega€™s mistake pitting itself when trying to get away from Knyfe in vain happened within 30 seconds of the right hand side of Knyfe dying, the judge awards the battle to Knyfe as a chorus of boos echo thought-out the arena.

The next battle will be the big one, not Slammer vs. The 6isc, nor May Tracks vs. Nitro-Gene, but Tira IV & Fling & Knyfe vs. Trojan/Virus/Worm & Fairground Killride & Woody.

However a quick visit to the pits sees Paul repairing Knyfe€™s drive and hammering out the debts, but where€™s Woody, as the cameras zoom to the test arena to see the compact base of Woody on its side, power cut as the team are trying to repair something without much luck, and gives in the white flag before the fight :sad:

Therefore fight 5 will be Tira IV & Fling & Knyfe vs. Trojan/Virus/Worm & Fairground Killride, a 3 on 2 fight, seems fair to everybody apart from Timmy and Mark who raised nothing in reply to the question, as Kody looks on sad, knowing that he can€™t destroy the soft wood cover of Woody, and goes off with a file to make the blades of Tira 4 even more sharper.

*gets ready for the backlash*