While in the middle of building my first robot, i decided i wanted to beat a house robot good an' proper. Do any of you guys have any suggestions of weapons and things I should use to try and beat Gripper and/or Battleaxe?
Good luck man, you wont want a pneumatic flipper because battleaxe weighs over 1000kg I repeat 1000kg+
and house robots aren't really good for beating up because your likely to have your robot destroyed...
i thought that was roaming robot's house robot major damage? battleaxe i think was actualy quite lightweight and could only fight with feathers iirc?
Major Damage is claimed to be well over a metric tonne, having seen all the hardox and batteries in that thing I wouldn't be surprised if it was :P The only way to really 'beat' it would be to try and disable the tracks, which would probably entail jamming your own robot in them, and then you have an annoyed Jonno and a robot slightly parallelogrammed from the tracks and potentially rather broken.
Battle Axe is lighter but faster, has a rather large hammer which can quite easily damage featherweights through shock to the drive, and the claws are probably capable of doing damage to a poorly put together robot as well.
My advice...don't go after them :P
Reckon a big bar spinner (like, oh I dunno, Berzerker) could wreck those tracks in no time at all, but there's the little problem of only the robochallenge arena being rated for them...
from my experience its a case of the house robots bust you lol,
the first ever fight i had with my fw robot pinsor after i did it all up, major damage completly wrecked it lol
im just waiting on my chance to get it back when my heavies up and running
major damage weighs in at 960kg and will kill any feather weight and alot of hws my advice leave them alone....or have a go and see who wins/??? :twisted:
To be honest, while taking on a house robot can be a fun thing, concentrate all of your energy and focus on getting a robot built that can beat other featherweights first. The chances are that to do any damage to a house robot on the scale you are thinking of, your robot would have to be built like a brick structurally and that would leave you no weight for a weapon.
The only robot I've seen (through the medium of video) that successfully took on a house robot was Little Flipper lifting up BattleAxe (120kg, not 1000kg+). Now, all the Nipper machines are extremely well built but all Little Flipper could do once it lifted BattleAxe up was, err, put it back down again, because they couldn't drive anywhere with 120kg on top of their robot.
It was a lot easier on Robot Wars to take on the house robots as the size/weight ratio between competitors and house robots wasn't as great as that between feathers and house robots. So focus on getting your robot running and getting enjoyment out of fighting other fw machines first.
(P.S. Major Damage is a sissy)
Ok, maybe i will try to take on house robots when i have a heavy weight...
How about a carjack on wheels?
It could certainly lift the house robots but I doubt the drive train could take the weight.
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