your Craziest robot combat stories

[G.K.]

Robot Combat is electric, as rules say. Now, I really wantedto stop posting, but it seems your inbox is full, so, here's my PM to you: 'I would really like a valid answer[I have spoken to him on hamachi, asking him. He has just told me to F*** offf]. I have apparently lost your respect because an 11 year old thinks his boxes are real robots.'

[SKBT]

*Goes to find his post of why boxbots are not real robots*

*Returns to edit this post*

ro·bot   
ro·bot [rṓ bòt, rṓbət]
(plural ro·bots)
n
1.  programmable machine for performing tasks: a mechanical device that can be programmed to carry out instructions and perform complicated tasks usually done by people 
2.  imaginary machine: a machine that resembles a human in appearance and can function like a human, especially in science fiction 
3.  person like machine: somebody who works or behaves mechanically and emotionlessly 
4.  South Africa traffic light: a set of automatic traffic lights (informal) 
[Early 20th century. Via German < Czech , < robota "forced labor"; coined by Karel Čapek in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) (1920)]
Encarta ® World English Dictionary © & (P) 1998-2005 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Boxbots are not Battlebots

[Sparkey98]

technically NOT robots, but modern ones are mechanical, so machines. Come on, we're just kids bein kids.

[G.K.]

And I am a pedant justifying my title.

[Avalanche]

Just let him do it...*refrains from swearing*

[G.K.]

We were never stopping him. We (Or at least I) just want to clarify his classification.

[SKBT]

I had this arguement in his robotics team thread so don't start this again G.K. and Av.

Please stop derailing this.

[JoeBlo]

Back on topic

"Boxbots" are perfectly fine as a means of amusing yourself

they however dont fit within the combat robot catagory, please start another topic for discussing your "Boxbots"

[Avalanche]

Well,They make them fight each other,Sparky,Do it if you want.

[russian roulette]

@Av A robot is a robot, a "box bot" is a "box bot", get it?
On topic: I agree with JoeBlo, it is SLIGHTLY in topic, but just not the same. Please start a tread for your "box bots"

[Clickbeetle]

Back on topic...


I was at Mechwars 3 in Minnesota several years ago.  Son of Whyachi was there, the original shuffler version that actually worked.  It fought some flail VS (don't remember what it was called, something innocent like Snuggles or Sugarpie, but it was the prequel to another flail VS called Thresher).  SoW was dominating until one of its hammers broke off and flew right through the arena wall, punching a giant hole in the lexan.  It was a miracle that nobody got hurt; that hammer could have easily killed somebody.  Somebody like me 


Needless to say, SoW fought with its weapon at low speed for the rest of the tournament, and not just because it was unbalanced.

[russian roulette]

Wow! And I thought a entire robot getting flung into 3 of the walls was scary, but a hammer going at a lethal velocity AFTER it penetrated a lexan wall! Your's takes the cake.

[JoeBlo]

a hammer going at a Team Whyachi velocity AFTER it penetrated a lexan wall!.

Team Whyachi > Lethal :P

but yes that takes the cake for sure