Ironbot SBV

[Wolfsbane]

starcore, you are a legend to me. it would be an honour to have you give me your thoughts about my bot.

[Badnik96]

Well thats good.

OO4 was made mostly to take out wedges,however I ran out of options for Ironbot

[NFX]

I was wondering about the odd weapon placement.

It took me quite a while to get the amount of weapons on Revolutions Per Minute that I wanted.

[Trovaner]

BlackVein doesn't stand a chance against a halfway decent wedge. The custom AI.py tries to compensate for this shotcoming by not spinning the weapon motors unless necessary. Bound to be a major upset.

The bot to look out for IMO is Big Dog. It may not have a wedge but having only 30 seconds to deal damage could give this well-defended fortress enough time make a gimp out of its opponent.

[Badnik96]

true.

Vertigo's got the best matchup though, he's up against Garvin and will lose like nothing unless Garv gets lucky.

[G.K.]

I'll be interested to watch DSC vs NFX, Conraaa vs FB, VB vs Pwn and Sage vs MAS

[Starcore]

starcore, you are a legend to me. it would be an honour to have you give me your thoughts about my bot.

30 Second Rounds with recovery between rounds of parts that are not broken off changes the rules of what makes a good bot. In 2 minute combat, protecting your shell is paramount since that is the final armor for your control board.


In 2 minute round combat, bots that are similar to yours like speedy DX, Stratocaster and Trollestia 2 are often better off by having their wheels protect the sides of their bots. In 30 second rounds your choice to hide your wheels inside your rammer may prove more effective.


I would think that compact rammers like Big Dog and Bullet Train balance a small chassis to hit with amount of wheel exposure and are likely to be more successful. (My other entry that I did not use, a quickly updated Warmachine was a compact Rammer)


I would comment that having weapons that stick out sideways like Big Dog, Blood Shed and Bullet Train help block bots and weapons getting to your vulnerable sides. You could have had Irons sticking straight out sideways instead of the half pick axes pointing straight forward.


Good luck in the matches and hope you do well.


Comments by others that T-888 Terminator does not have enought Maces and Armor to fend off the other 36HS Mace designs (Like BoomBox and Overloaded Orbinaut 4 which he is unfortunately facing in the first round), are likely to be true and it is time for T-888 Terminator to undergo a rebuild. He is 2 years old and doesn't use any Snapper Loading (which could reduce the amount of extenders needed and better hide the wheels). Just a ton of Effe Glitch in the construction. So I too have things I could improve.


Starcore

[Somebody]

Well you can only hope that too many maces will not be removed. That the bots will bounce off or have trouble getting to each other, just for less time for them to hit.

[Badnik96]

Bots most likely to do well
Big Dog
Bullet Train
D.O.G.
Grinding Noise
Plutonium
ReFlection
Supernovae 2.1 (serious here, best setup out of the 36HS)
The Beast
Unexpected Nightmare (most weapons out of the 4WD rammers)
Your Best Frenemy

[Vertigo]

Okay, epic draw is epic

I won't do well, I can build pretty awesome HW popups, but since Click ruled them out, I'm not really much good at anything else in the HW class XD

[G.K.]

Slight bump.

I'm suprised by the lack of casters on many bots. I think only 7 out of 32 use 'em.

[NFX]

I counted 8. That's still a quarter of the entries, though, so not too bad.

[G.K.]

ahahahaha

Just reading back posts and found this:

I got it! I'll enter D.O.G. into Iron bot!

Sure, enter that.

Yes! There's a chance I might get drawn against it

[Enigm@]

If D.O.G. does a razor guy run, I think I'm going to have to kill myself.

[NFX]

ahahahaha

Just reading back posts and found this:

I got it! I'll enter D.O.G. into Iron bot!

Sure, enter that.

Yes! There's a chance I might get drawn against it

That's an excellent piece of foresight. XD Well done, Vertigo.

[infiniteinertia]

This is a dumb tourney because 36HSes were allowed. So obviously people were going to exploit that. And with 30 second matches, I have a hard time believing bots will be able to derail the 36HSes. Which =/= parody, and = boring

[G.K.]

Did you see the test tourney inf?

It was a rammer that won, if I remember right.

Edit: Here it is: https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php/topic,6411.msg335031.html#msg335031

A rammer/poker, it was.

[freeziez]

Did you see the test tourney inf?

It was a rammer that won, if I remember right.

Correct.

[infiniteinertia]

Test shmest. Still dumb...i'll be here to tell you so when it's all over.

[Enigm@]

This is a dumb tourney because 36HSes were allowed. So obviously people were going to exploit that. And with 30 second matches, I have a hard time believing bots will be able to derail the 36HSes. Which =/= parody, and = boring

This was actually the reason I didn't want to enter.. I figured it'd just be rammers 'n 36 hs's, and I didn't want to enter my bots because I'm severely under-par in my stock skills. XD (is trying to improve tho)
I'm not gonna lie, the only bot I can spot out is Nary's everything else is to similar..