what is a WS ? Oh it's one of them 1WD horizontal spinners... eh. it's fairly immobile and unable to being driven properly. Which is almost fine on the combat arena, but not so much in arenas with noticeable hazards or when you have a damaged motor/low battery and the AI can't get out of immobilization and you lose
Other members tell me that I have too many batts in WS. Now they know why WS need lots of batteries.
As I told everyone else- wandering spinners are bots designed to use Newton’s law of action and reaction to move around the arena. They sport a HS that serves as a steering system as well as a weapon. When a WS hots a wall, the excessive force causes the WS to bounce, sending it off in a different direction. Wandering spinners use very robust weapons to prevent weapon fractures, and typically run around on one wheel, though more complex WS use drums or disks on 2 or more motors to drive around. Wandering spinners use a single switch control to fully activate or deactivate, though AI WS also have a button wired the same way as the switch.
Wandering spinners have both a good and a bad side.
Bad- wandering spinners can only be activated or deactivated. They steer by themselves, and are tournament illegal. The easiest way to defeat a WS is to have the WS wander onto a flipper or into a pit.
Good. Wandering spinners can carry more weapons than any generic HS.
Whereas you have a HS 4-spinner HS with 36 maces, a wandering spinner HW can have up to 39, maybe 42 irons. This makes them VERY difficult to outweapon, and victories with any other standard HS are rare.
There are 2 types of WS.
Basic- basic WS have a single central motor, with 1 wheel (or 2 if it’s a DSL WS. The wheels can be attached to each other to create fatter wheels.) Basic WS have anywhere from from 1-4 spinners, and are mainly found in the forms of full-body spinners.
Complex- complex WS are direct opposites of basic WS. They use disks or dums on 2 or more motors, primarily for stability. Complex WS, although they don’t have much traction, are more reliable than basic WS because the low traction allows for easy deflection off walls, and makes them capable of getting out of corners.
Complex WS are found in forms like the famous bots Tombstone and Carbide, with all the spinners at the front, or sometimes, spaced out so one is on each side of the WS, like a drone. Complex WS have 1 or more spinners, and typically more armor.
However, the current strength-to-weight ratio proves that basic WS are better because they can have more weapons than complex WS.
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