nicky's tournament gave me something to do and i wanted to prove the nerds in discord wrong about me not contributing to sh** anymore so i built a thing.
i kinda took inspiration from mess maker, who i loved watching in gtmcs2, and insectoid because insectoid is badass. it's decent but not great. mediocre wedges and it isn't amazing at gutripping, but it's serviceable enough to beat a good chunk of the ai.
but i wasn't satisfied, so i went back to the drawing board:
it's a lot messier-looking, but i think i like this one more. giving it irons instead of blades freed up a large chunk of weight, so i was able to give it some proper wheel protection. irons also do a much better job of killing things in one hit. using sickles as trappers works a lot better, since the sickle's weird-ass mesh lets wedges slide between them and the rest of the bot so it can dig into chassis more easily. it gets under just about every wedge in both reforged and reier's pack so i have some high hopes for it.
it weighs 498kg with 2 ballasts. if i were to do this again (and i may still try that) i think i might try a u-shaped chassis so i can spread the wedges out further and chassis-mount the drive.
