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Re: A brief history and showcase of Team Amphib and the Newt series
« Reply #80 on: July 27, 2016, 01:09:03 PM »
I toned down the armour a tad (now the second lowest kind of steel I think) and added a small anti flipper wedge to the front of The Fire The Flood V3.
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Re: A brief history and showcase of Team Amphib and the Newt series
« Reply #81 on: July 27, 2016, 03:58:08 PM »
if you want to use a wedge, only use the center point of the skirt hinge, otherwise it's gonna be fail... use the weight to either make it longer or sturdier
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Re: A brief history and showcase of Team Amphib and the Newt series
« Reply #82 on: August 03, 2016, 08:03:12 AM »
IRL thwackbot Chernobyl Stingray.

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Re: A brief history and showcase of Team Amphib and the Newt series
« Reply #83 on: August 05, 2016, 07:48:53 AM »
Most thwack bots don't have a secondary rammer on the front, is it supposed to drive like an SnS or do you ram into them and spin at them?

Can you not just use normal extenders instead of the T-connectors for the iron spikes and save weight?
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Re: A brief history and showcase of Team Amphib and the Newt series
« Reply #84 on: August 05, 2016, 10:11:37 AM »
Most thwack bots don't have a secondary rammer on the front, is it supposed to drive like an SnS or do you ram into them and spin at them?

Can you not just use normal extenders instead of the T-connectors for the iron spikes and save weight?
The stock connectors in DSL 2.2 are only 1KG as opposed to 4 or 5KGs. Still, tita or steel extenders are going to be a better bet - They have more HP and better mounting points to boot.

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Re: A brief history and showcase of Team Amphib and the Newt series
« Reply #85 on: August 12, 2016, 06:24:55 AM »
I don't even try anymore lol it has steel 10 and everything.
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Re: A brief history and showcase of Team Amphib and the Newt series
« Reply #86 on: August 12, 2016, 09:23:31 AM »
I don't even try anymore lol it has steel 10 and everything.
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I think the Perm is a bit too long, make that shorter, maybe pick the armored version and upgrade the drive(think TWM's could fit well into that design?). Ant batteries aren't the best unless you're using 2.1, better to upgrade to the long batteries or battlepacks.

Otherwise looks good, might want to go a bit irl style and add the supports for the disc.
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Re: A brief history and showcase of Team Amphib and the Newt series
« Reply #87 on: August 13, 2016, 09:04:44 PM »
I don't even try anymore lol it has steel 10 and everything.
If you didn't even try why bother posting it to your showcase...

obviously get rid of the steel10. Try to find as much weight as possible (probably by downgrading the weapon motor to a shorter perm80 for a start, and removing those useless wedges) to get a 2nd disc on a 2nd motor. Then add as much protection as you can. It will still get rekt by pretty much everything with a wedge tho, but that's a HS for you.
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Re: A brief history and showcase of Team Amphib and the Newt series
« Reply #88 on: August 18, 2016, 04:27:04 PM »
Sooo... I have been re-watching a bit of the first Steel Conflict and I decided "hey I have bugger all to do and I could replicate a few of those". so yeah I gone and done two so far there not the best but there alright for replications in my opinion they could have been worse.
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Re: A brief history and showcase of Team Amphib and the Newt series
« Reply #89 on: August 23, 2016, 11:19:31 AM »
"the question is not how fast his spinner is its how fast you can run! straight from the deepest of caves and with an instinct to slaughter and feed here is Salamandra!" I was a little hesitant of showing him off until the tournament started but nah I may as well show it quite a few other people have shown theres.


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Re: A brief history and showcase of Team Amphib and the Newt series
« Reply #90 on: August 23, 2016, 11:34:05 AM »
hey thats actually not bad

the front motor needs more protection tho
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Re: A brief history and showcase of Team Amphib and the Newt series
« Reply #91 on: August 23, 2016, 11:34:35 AM »
Salamandra looks bloody good. I think the 'bot does have some weak support and the weapon motor could be concealed better, though.

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Re: A brief history and showcase of Team Amphib and the Newt series
« Reply #92 on: August 23, 2016, 11:44:31 AM »
one of the prototype versions had the motor a LOT further back but the blade was measly and couldn't reach out more than a few CM. its worth noting its the spiritual successor to my old robot Pissed Off Salamander.
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Re: A brief history and showcase of Team Amphib and the Newt series
« Reply #93 on: August 26, 2016, 06:16:19 AM »
I tried a bit with this one its called Mr Mackerel
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Re: A brief history and showcase of Team Amphib and the Newt series
« Reply #94 on: August 26, 2016, 07:48:01 AM »
You still have in insane amount of empty space there. Try making the chassis small enough to only fit the control board and batteries, and put everything else on extenders outside of the bot. Also, those wedges aren't really long enough to do much, although I guess they're OK to stop you from getting outwedged by a gutripper or something. I think the drive is overkill as well for a MW HS.

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Re: A brief history and showcase of Team Amphib and the Newt series
« Reply #95 on: August 26, 2016, 06:17:42 PM »
Hey, not too bad, chassis space needs to be a bit small and spinners generally don't have that strong drive, so I'd downgrade to the TWM Drive 1's.
Unless you're playing DSL 2.1 you shouldn't use ant batteries, use battlepacks or the long batteries instead(big ones work as well but don't really give more power per kg)
Would upgrade the perm as well as use the single wedge connectors(so you don't have those black bits sticking out to the sides)
You still have in insane amount of empty space there. Try making the chassis small enough to only fit the control board and batteries, and put everything else on extenders outside of the bot. Also, those wedges aren't really long enough to do much, although I guess they're OK to stop you from getting outwedged by a gutripper or something. I think the drive is overkill as well for a MW HS.

It's a lot better than your "joke" bots, put some more time into it and it'll actually be good!
It depends on how you want to build it, if you want to go for a stock like efficiency guide then you will want a small chassis, however it can be of advantage to take a hit to the chassis instead of losing the drive.
Wedges are most likely there to act as a popup killer, it will drive up to the point where the wedge will be hit by the spinner.
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Re: A brief history and showcase of Team Amphib and the Newt series
« Reply #96 on: August 26, 2016, 09:34:49 PM »
oh, and don't use ant batteries, batteries don't work like DSL2.1. Use the long dark battery, that's good for 3 motors I think. It tells you in the description how long the battery will serve 3 motors.
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Re: A brief history and showcase of Team Amphib and the Newt series
« Reply #97 on: September 06, 2016, 11:13:00 AM »
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Re: A brief history and showcase of Team Amphib and the Newt series
« Reply #98 on: September 06, 2016, 11:19:02 AM »
With so much leftover weight, why not add some visuals or upgrade your drive motors?
Beaters would also be more realistic if horizontal instead of vertical, bot otherwise it's a fairly generic IRL drum.
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Re: A brief history and showcase of Team Amphib and the Newt series
« Reply #99 on: October 14, 2016, 02:27:05 PM »
Here's a "IRL" design I made using a M.O.E motor it's atrocious XD
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