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Click's Ironforge
Clickbeetle:
Just got Ironforge and built a pile of bots. Nothing super serious yet, just trying out different designs to see what works and what doesn't.
Here's Tumbleweed, the first bot I built. It's inspired by Pro-AM / Kumite.
I like this design and want it to work... but it doesn't. It can beat none of the MWs. The weapon doesn't have enough reach and doesn't do enough damage anyway.
Next I tried making Slambot Iron Edition.
Looks pretty cool... but is really bad in combat. It gets stuck on its side far too often. I could make it better, except that it seems everything I do turns it into a Havok bomb. Wider chassis? Havok. Remove those side skirts? Havok. I'm lucky I got one stable enough to not explode.
Finally I got something that works. Here's Falling Star.
It can't beat either of the VS for obvious reasons, or the shell spinner or SnS because fast melty brain bots are stupidly annoying, but it destroys anything else. I suspect it would be considerably less good if there were more bots with wedges, though.
Altas Undas was an attempt at upgrading Tumbleweed.
Still doesn't work. The weapon packs a lot of momentum, but damage is low. I'm beginning to suspect that these steel blades don't work well on VS. Also, it's highly unstable. It self-rights easily, but one gyro dance is often all it takes to give the opponent the advantage. It can beat one HW... if you count Damage Tester.
I got tired of losing to every bot, so lastly I built Poot Slap, a generic HS that abuses the weapon array.
This thing is too powerful for its own good. It can score over 12,000 damage in a single hit, but often throws itself to the ceiling in the process and then has trouble self righting. But even with questionable stability, it's powerful enough to win some fights.
Badnik96:
I built a duspan bot like Falling Star but it sucks. Slambot Iron looks pretty sweet.
helloface:
I'm really liking that VS.
RedAce:
Slambot Iron Edition and Tumbleweed look the best to me.
123savethewhales:
Yeah, don't expect most IRL bots to fair well against the current sample bots. You need to build things closer to standard if you want a fair chance against those. Of course, they will be replaced once I receive some IRL teams.
Also, it's not the blades, it's the angle and how you block most of the collision with those disc.
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