Hi5er's Stock Showcase

[Hi5er]

So I decided to create a showcase for my stock robots as suggested and I thought I'd start up with 'Teeth', a rammer robot that I built to take on my brothers 3x FS (Face spinner is that right here? The one where a Z Tek is in the position where it would normally be used as a drive motor but a disc is placed on instead of a tyre? Sorry am new  )

Anyway this bot won only losing one iron spike. It was also the first robot which I experimented with the custom texture thing and I think it turned out nicely, anyway I know your not going to approve of the allignment of all the inards as it isnt pixel perfect, but it works and I think its ok for a first, it has never been used competitively either so whatever, below are inside and outside shots.

Features:

- 9x Iron Spikes mounted on the front for main attacking purposes
- Invertible, so being flipped is not a problem
- 4x Spike strips mounted along side the tyres to offer some protection to the exposed tyres
- 4x HP Ztek motors that offer a strong enough ram power but it could easily be stronger

Problems:

- Limited weaponry
- Vulnerable back and top
- If a flipper balances him on his side there is nothing he can do about it
(although this has never happened and the iron spike pointing at angle would make this incredibly challenge to balance it)
- Lots of unused space inside
- Probably more but they're all I can come up with

Anyway here are the snapshots:


Inside the robot teeth, note the un-alligned Zteks and base anchors :D


An outside shot of the robot teeth, note the custom texture on the top, im happy with him overall :)

Comments appreciated and please dont be too harsh... Cheers.

[Jonzu95]

That looks sweet... Build always to the weightlimit and don't use Pinks.

[Squirrel_Monkey]

Yeah, black batts are best on a HW, try stacking some.
For the spikes, maybe use a setup like this:
https://gametechmods.com/RA2wiki/index.php?title=Dark_July
but with less weapons.
What armour is this?

[Hi5er]

Howcome pinks are so bad? I couldnt fit any other battery in so surely 1 pink inside is better than less weight?

Its DSA armor, I suppose I could switch to Steel to increase weight if need be

and thats some pretty insane spike layout going on there o.O

Thanks for the comments :)

[Squirrel_Monkey]

Howcome pinks are so bad? I couldnt fit any other battery in so surely 1 pink inside is better than less weight?

Its DSA armor, I suppose I could switch to Steel to increase weight if need be

and thats some pretty insane spike layout going on there o.O

Thanks for the comments :)

DON'T switch to Steel, it's worse than DSA
Pinks are inefficient, also 2 stacked blacks isn't too big. Just rebuild the chassis until everything fits.

[Gazea2]

Not bad for a newcomer. At least you know some of the terms and what weapons to use. :)

Follow S_M's advice for this one. Remove the pink and the nifty and add a lot more weapons.

Oh, and nice bot skin.

[Scorpion]

Howcome pinks are so bad? I couldnt fit any other battery in so surely 1 pink inside is better than less weight?

Its DSA armor, I suppose I could switch to Steel to increase weight if need be

and thats some pretty insane spike layout going on there o.O

Thanks for the comments :)

DON'T switch to Steel, it's worse than DSA
Pinks are inefficient, also 2 stacked blacks isn't too big. Just rebuild the chassis until everything fits.

QFT
Besides i think you only really need 1 blackvolt for that, although you may aswell stack them as some more experienced person will probably tell me i've got it wrong there.

Still nice skin mate, i really need to learn to do that 

[Squirrel_Monkey]

Howcome pinks are so bad? I couldnt fit any other battery in so surely 1 pink inside is better than less weight?

Its DSA armor, I suppose I could switch to Steel to increase weight if need be

and thats some pretty insane spike layout going on there o.O

Thanks for the comments :)

DON'T switch to Steel, it's worse than DSA
Pinks are inefficient, also 2 stacked blacks isn't too big. Just rebuild the chassis until everything fits.

QFT
Besides i think you only really need 1 blackvolt for that, although you may aswell stack them as some more experienced person will probably tell me i've got it wrong there.

Still nice skin mate, i really need to learn to do that 

Actually, one black is fine for 4 HP-Z's

[Hi5er]

I just assumed the more batteries you had the longer you would last in a game, is that not the case?

And ok sticking with DSA... :)

I might leave this as it is acting as a prototype and then perfecting something based on this as a more competitive bot in which il be a lil more 'careful'.

[Squirrel_Monkey]

I just assumed the more batteries you had the longer you would last in a game, is that not the case?

Yes but minimum for a 3 min battle is usually used to save weight.

[Hi5er]

ah makes sense, me and my brother usually have a 5 min time limit or even no limit we both have particular damaging weapons.

[Scorpion]

ah makes sense, me and my brother usually have a 5 min time limit or even no limit we both have particular damaging weapons.

Yeah i often do that to get a bit more destruction 

[GoldenFox93]

Nice paintwork for a first showcased bot, I must say.

[J]

The bot in the OP is pretty good
Methinks if you made the chassis smaller, which is possible, you could make that thing invertible. It would be interesting.

Still nice skin mate, i really need to learn to do that 

Photoshop.

[Scorpion]

The bot in the OP is pretty good
Methinks if you made the chassis smaller, which is possible, you could make that thing invertible. It would be interesting.

Still nice skin mate, i really need to learn to do that 

Photoshop.

I thought that one already was invertible? thats why it had the grannies.

Oh and yeah i know you use photoshop but i suck with it, and infact i don't think i even have it on my laptop anyway 

[Hi5er]

Yeah it is invertible, and yeah I'd say its fairly interesting lol.

And I dont use photoshop, couldnt use it if I tried, I use Adobe Fireworks, I find it more user friendly and easier to understand.

[Scorpion]

Still don't have it.

Besides, I suck at art.

[Hi5er]

Dont say you suck at art...

Just call whetever you produce your 'style' and then no1 can say its crap because you 'meant' it to look that way

[Scorpion]

Dont say you suck at art...

Just call whetever you produce your 'style' and then no1 can say its crap because you 'meant' it to look that way

Nope, still wouldn't work. I am THAT bad.
Besides i don't care, unsteady right hand=bad for art but great for guitar 

[Hi5er]

Ha and I suck at guitar so took up drums which requires no precision at all