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Stock Showcases / Calmarius' stock showcase
« on: March 04, 2016, 05:11:55 PM »
My first robot that can have some chance against Starcore V3 when I'm driving it is FWOD (Fast Wedge of Death).
This is a garden variety popup bot. Although it took me quite some time to research so I get the numbers right. Fairly simple design and straightforward (I guess I'm not alone who already built very much like this). The construction doesn't use any glitches.
If I counted correctly the 4 black batteries should be enough to strike all the DDTs on full power during the entire course of the match. The armor is DSA.
Pros:
- Fast. Always capable to flank two wheeled HW bots.
- High pushing power.
- The emergency wedge tend to peel off many other opponents from the ground with ease.
- The 4 DDTs with the razor cause massive amounts of damage (1000-2000 per hit when all razors hit).
- Fastest win: 5 seconds.
Cons:
- Problems with self righting, if it lands on it's side, it will be counted out.
- Weak against full body horizontal spinners. Vortex CE regularly beats me. Tough it's performs better against the Borg Queen, and other HSes with large chassis.
- Cannot KO Mome Rath and Alien Queen (nevertheless he can win against them by score ).
- Low ground clearance makes it stuck on ramps an detached bot components, very careful driving needed.
- Requires lot of skill to drive it (hard to aim, easy to lose the razors if you hit a weapon with them)
I was too lazy to apply proper paintwork. So I just painted the entire chassis to lime green.
I upload a video to Youtube every day where play at least 5 rounds against a Starcore robot on weekdays.
Then I upload a longer vid of me playing a whole season of events on Sundays:
The playlist is here:
Future plans with this:
- Improving the self righting ability.
- Adding armor to the wedge without losing the wedging ability. (So far I have no good ideas how could I place them).
- Building a middleweight and lightweight versions.
This is a garden variety popup bot. Although it took me quite some time to research so I get the numbers right. Fairly simple design and straightforward (I guess I'm not alone who already built very much like this). The construction doesn't use any glitches.
If I counted correctly the 4 black batteries should be enough to strike all the DDTs on full power during the entire course of the match. The armor is DSA.
Pros:
- Fast. Always capable to flank two wheeled HW bots.
- High pushing power.
- The emergency wedge tend to peel off many other opponents from the ground with ease.
- The 4 DDTs with the razor cause massive amounts of damage (1000-2000 per hit when all razors hit).
- Fastest win: 5 seconds.
Cons:
- Problems with self righting, if it lands on it's side, it will be counted out.
- Weak against full body horizontal spinners. Vortex CE regularly beats me. Tough it's performs better against the Borg Queen, and other HSes with large chassis.
- Cannot KO Mome Rath and Alien Queen (nevertheless he can win against them by score ).
- Low ground clearance makes it stuck on ramps an detached bot components, very careful driving needed.
- Requires lot of skill to drive it (hard to aim, easy to lose the razors if you hit a weapon with them)
I was too lazy to apply proper paintwork. So I just painted the entire chassis to lime green.
I upload a video to Youtube every day where play at least 5 rounds against a Starcore robot on weekdays.
Then I upload a longer vid of me playing a whole season of events on Sundays:
The playlist is here:
Future plans with this:
- Improving the self righting ability.
- Adding armor to the wedge without losing the wedging ability. (So far I have no good ideas how could I place them).
- Building a middleweight and lightweight versions.