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Tengu VII (12)

Mobility: 4 small inner wheels on a simple skid steer

Colour: Green

Weight: 100kg

Shape: A short cylinder, with very slightly tapering top, tengu is not much shorter: around 60% of its previous height but around 15% larger radius.

Speed: 18mph

Turning circle: 0m

Power: 2x 750 watt Bosch wiper motors at 24v.

Armour: The armour is 4mm titanium, however, tengu has its unique anti spinner ring to give invulnerability for it against the dangers of the rest of the horizontal spinner community. grade As you can now see tengu has a setup two smaller blades per side rather than the single larger ones at the base, this is for reasons that will be explained later. Anyway, basically the result in this is that the spinner ring is mounted between the blades, therefore it goes from about 7% of the height from the ground up to about 85% height in this case, or in a normal setup from 7% to 95%, meaning it has very good coverage whichever way. With the blades above and below the rest is protected very well anyway.

For the ring itself you know the drill: a ring of toughened polypropylene (a very tough industrial synthetic rubber) mounted on a metal frame mounted free on castors, this means that it spins completely independently and is not restricted in horizontal movement in any way. The effect: any hit from a horizontal spinning weapon will cause the spinner ring to spin by transferring the energy into that, which as it slows down will dissipate the energy harmlessly as heat and sound. It also means that should a robot with horizontal gripping weapon get a purchase tengu can still spin up while it is being held assuming it doesn’t crush too badly. This is all over a toughened stainless steel chassis which has triangular bars making the whole chassis appear to be made up of triangles, this design leads to extra strength against crushers. Read also skirts, as they are defensive too. The robot is very heavily shock proofed.

Ground clearance: Under new skirts 6mm, however these skirts are a lot different to usual, basically they are a ring of aluminium foam with all the gap filled in with rubber beneath the robot, there are castors set into them to keep manoeuvrability, basically they not only protect from flippers but from low discs like spin dash. It also enables a slight bit of bounce so it can go to one side slightly without leaving a clearance. Its an inch thick form the outside (as in in plan view). How this has changed for Tengu 7 is there are now two set-ups for these skirts to suit opponents. The skirts when facing flippers lifting forks or anything which needs to get under the machine to turn tengu over are at the outside, as in level with the rest of the machine. However when facing robots which get under an opponent to make an attack easier, or attack underneath, ie. SD IV type saws, wedge crushers, front hinged flippers, robots with flywheels mounted up a wedge, they are now mounted 15cm in from the outside so the robot CAN get under, this however means that they will drive straight under with little resistance but get hit by the blades up their wedge damaging them in places which were previously inaccessible.

Weapons: The robot is a full body spinner powered by a 4" magmotor at a gearing ratio of 6:1, although much wider than previous it still gives out somewhere in the region of 70-80Kj as t is much shorter, the spin up time is also still quite rapid. It hits using one of 4 sets of blades chosen depending on the opponent:

Two 7.5-kilo blades with go into the robot to prevent them being ripped off, each is about 15cm long. Used against most opponents except ones mentioned below. Used in melee even if only one opponent doesn't fit the required groups below.
Triangular wedges, they skim along the ground at low clearances of about 1.5mm, and sharply curve upwards, they can be used to turn over bots with high clearances. They are made of high grade aluminium approximately 2cm thick.
The dual hit weapons, basically there is a large titanium/tungsten alloy bar, which protrudes 30cm backwards from the spinning direction (ie anticlockwise), there is a large blade which is slightly curved at the end where it attacked (its the same bar so won't snap off in impact), at the far end of the bar there is a smaller blade which is more pointed and is barbed backwards. Therefore on hit the large blade will hit first, and almost instantaneously the second blade will stab in as well, causing two lots of damage, this is only to be used against robots which have long flat sides and light armour as it is primarily a weapon that looks impressive when it hits. It can also be used for removing skirts.
The new ones: basically they are two standard blades mounted at the top and bottom of the side of the robot, making 4 blades in total (the blades shown in the picture) Basically they are used against robots with shells too tough for the blades to pierce, but are instead designed to knock an opponent away but also deliver as much force through the smallest area possible without off balancing the machine. This basically means that it’s far more likely to do severe shock damage inside to machines which aren’t likely to be damaged properly.
Srimech: Bar srimech on top powered by linear actuators: the actuators are on the inside and the arm is aluminium boron carbide which means that its incredibly resistant to damage. The srimech actions now takes about 0.9 second. The bar is inset into the top of the machine so it is difficult to damage.

Strengths: Very good weaponry, manoeuvrable, gyroscopic force makes it very difficult to flip. Variables make it suitable for any opponent.

Weaknesses: Low traction.

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Black Panther Queen (2)

Colour: black

Weight: 100kg

Shape: Pyramidical, however the poitn has been sliced of relativly low to create a broad flat top for better balance and self righting.

Wheels: 4 very small (2.5 inch diamater) cast aluminium internal wheels on a simple skid steer, The whole wheel mechanism is now sprung at the rear of the robot to give it more traction, the robot appears to be slightly weighted towards the back now.

Motors: 2x 750 watt bosch motors at 36v.

Speed: 24mph

Turning circle: 0m

Armour: 5mm alumium boron carbide. The front of the robot has 2 inches of titanium foam behind it to absorb shocks wel from head long attacks.l.

Ground clearance: The sides now have skirts which are fixed on a pivot near the front and can slide up and down at the side at the back so even if the robot goes up in the air a little the skirts still descend, they are 5mm aluminium boron carbide.
There is an under skirt, basically a short skirt beneath the robot that prevents things trying to attack the wheels by provideing another layer of protection. The rear skirt is a normal hinged one, sprung of course at 5 points down its length to prevent it from being got up. The armour no longer runs down to the ground and as such beneath the skirts at the side, the clearnace benath them being around 3mm

Weapons: at the top there is a high-pressure pneumatic ax, on a similar mechanism to Terrorhurtz with one large and canister at maximum permitted pressure which fuels both weapons. The blade is a diamond edged folded steel blade modelled on a Japanese tanto to maximise piercing. The head is double sided to damage both those infront and behind. The axe shaft is considerably shorter than before, but it is pivoted mroe forward so it has a shrot reach on the backstroke, but a logner oen forward.


The flipper is similar to that of bigger brother but split down the middle to accomodate the axe, it has too very low spatulas to get underneath, and the weapon is made from titanium to ensure it won't be damaged too easily. As it is set further back the pivot means that it is far mroe pwoerful, and can throw robots relativly high rather than chuck them over, it also has spikes on it simialr to bigger brother to allow improved damage on softer shelled opponents. It is also an effective srimech when the ax is forward, and the axe self rights from either position.


Strengths: Effective attack combination, very fast, difficult to counter, very manouverable.
Weaknesses: Comparativly weak pushing power.

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Achilles (7)

Weight: 100kg
Shape: box, slightly thicker than tornado, not double sided, sides skirted like PA, back curved for more efficient srimech (like the original hydra), front is sloped at 45 degrees

Wheels: Four inner wheels like tornados but the wheels are only half the width covered in highly treaded rubber grip to maximise traction, runs on a similar drive system to tornado as well.

Motors: 2x Eteks at 48v.

Speed: 18mph,

Turning circle: 0m

Armour: 5mm titanium and on top 10mm of vulcanised rubber to stop axes and crushers

Ground clearance: 0mm at front and sides, 1mm at the back but difficult to get too due to overhanging curve.

Weapons: Uses a single really powerful hydraulic lifting arm to life opponents of up to 200kg into the air and tip over up to 500kg. To get under the opponent it has a Bigger Brother style lifting plate which runs parallel to the ground resting upon it which give the machine a really low ground clearance. So it can get under virtually anything.

On top of the lifter is a hook mechanism which looks like a tiny claw but performs the same gripping effect as the top mounted behemoth axe. It is not particularly sharp as it is not designed to cause damage, just to grip the opponent.

The hydruallic mechanism can be exchanged for high pressure pnuematics against other rambots and things too fast to be allowed to be lifted. The pressure is 500psi in two canisters giving 1000psi in total, also with weight saved from the hyrdualics I remove the claw and add a t shaped bar at the back to self right whioch saves me using up C02.

Strengths: Very durable, no particular weaknesses for opponent to exploit.

Weaknesses: No damaging weapons.

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Archangel of the Abyss

Colour: silver and dark metallic purple

Weight: 150kg

Shape: a two layered full body spinner, the upper ring overlaps the lower so is only about 10cm of lower ring exposed now, meaning the upper ring can hit lower targets.

Mobility: cheeky boy walking system for stability powered by 4 x C40-500 Magmotors on 36v. 6HP each. The legs are shorter than before and further from the outside of the robot (which is wider but shorter) meaning its unlikely that a robot will be able to get in to damage the legs, the feet are also no longer blade like but instead have feet about an inch thick which are rounded like pendulems (as required for the design) and have textured rubber feet giving the robot some traction.

Speed: 12mph

Turning circle: 0m

Armour: 4mm aluminium boron carbide, the chassis is made up of triangular sections of aluminium boron carbide, the two outer rings chassis rings being 3mm hardox tubing.

Ground clearance: 40mm under skirt (which is attached to base) skirt is the same foam skirt as tengu

Weapons: a two layered full body spinner, the upper layer spins completly at 1000rpm with a practically instantanious spin up time, this defends the robot while the much more powerful lower flywheel gets up to a speed of between 1500 and 2500rpm depending on tourny rules. The lower wheel has two 5 kilo blades on each flywheel, each being 10cm long, the upper flywheel is slightly broader so that the blades will hit something before the lower as if the lower hit it would prevent it reaching speed. Accordign to Aarons power calculator the lower flywheel gives out 89Kj of pwoer at 1500rpm on the original although it is probably slightly higher this tim due to the increased diamter of the machine. The upper blades are smaller but due to the overhang reach about 2mm further than the lower, there are 4 x 2 kg blades on the upper, rounded so to knock away opponents. (Ignore the pic it needs updating)

Srimech: A tengu like bar is the replacement for the heavy prongs which self righted it before, powered by linear actuators and pivoted at one side. The bar is 7mm aluminium boron carbide.

Strengths: Very destructive, difficult to attack. 360 degree attacking.

Weaknesses: Not many, but large width can make it a little difficult to do precision steering with.


MODIFICATIONS FOR 200KG LIMIT

1) The lower flywheel is now powered by 2 magmotors workign in unison. its speed remains the same however.

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2) The lower flywheel has a tengu style anti spinner ring.




3) Armour is 60% thicker and everythign is more heavily shockproofed.

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Salamander III

Colour: black and yellow

Weight: 100kg

Shape: a semi axle bot, the drive being inside the wheels,

Wheels: two large wheels, made of 7mm aluminium boron carbide, the drive is like a sides only FBS, ie only the rubber bit is driven, not the sides.

Speed: 12mph,

Turning circle: 0m

Armour: 3mm hardox

Power: wheelchair motors

Ground clearance: 6mm: but the disc is quite low so its difficult to actaully do much, its an axle bot after all.

Weapons: A massive 22kg spinning disc made of hardox with holes drileld in to center the weight round the edge, it spins at 2000rpm and is aproximatly 80cm in diameter. It has two square hardox teeth to do the damage, the only problem being that its spin up time isnbt the fastest ever. Robot is heavily shock proofed to prevent damage fromown power.

Srimech: invertible.

Strengths: Very strong weaponry, manouverable, difficult to get a hold of

Weaknesses: High clearance and slow spin up speed of weapon

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Nodachi

Weight: 100kg

Shape: A low box with a raised section in the middle to house the weapon, the front is wedged.

Mobility: Eight thin wheels with 2 rows of titanium studs coming through the rubber on each, beneath is a band of hardox to make it difficult to damage with axes on a skid steer system, designed to give a high top speed. The robot has very strong breaks to prevent the speed working against it, if a really sudden break is needed rubber will actually be pushed onto the studs to slow it down.

Motors: 2x Lem 130s at 46volts

Speed: 30mph

Turning circle: 0m

Armour: 5mm Aluminium Boron Carbide, also a 3mm hardox plate on the front.

Ground clearance: 0mm at the front, at the sides its around 1mm

Weapons: The principle weapon of nodachi is the massive sword powered by high pressure pnuematics (2 canisters at 1000psi) feeding into the blade. The blade is NOT an actual samurai sword but is merely modelled on one, it is 5ft in length and weight around 5kg (around 3 times the weight of an actual samurai sword) the composition is about halfway between that used in traditional katanas and hardox making it heavier, stronger but also less flexible. The fact that its a sword gives an advanatge over conventional axes in that it has a longer cuttign surface so that the aim needs to be less precise. The sword is less powerful on return yet still powerful enough to self right the robot if the sword is out when flipped, it gets a hit about every 1.5seconds.

The robot also has a pair of toughened hardox spikes, each difficult to damage and actually part of the armour, as the entire front was cast as a single piece, they protrude far enough to break through armour when the robot hits at top speed and an be used for pinning opponents against the sides, they also prvent robots running up the front of the machine.

Srimech: The sword can self right the machine whether it is in or out, although if it is out the self righting is marginally slower.

Strengths: Very fast, perfect for hit and run tactics.

Weaknesses: Is vulnerable to razer like claws if they get hold of it as they can reach the wheels.

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Baldur Gamma

Weight: 100kg

Shape: A small invertible box, taller at the front and with a wedge front cut out to allow it to get under opponents. Basically look atthe picture

Dimensions: 65cm x 55cm base, 45cm high

Mobility: Drive on a skid steer, uses the same drive system as tornado however the front wheels are taller and the back are smaller and wider from more traction. The wheels have a 5mm hardox layer beneath the rubebr for traction. spikes can be added to improve tration on certain surfaces. There is a thick tungsten bar at the rear to give the wheels a little further protection.

Motors: 2x Lem 130s at 46volts

Speed: 17mph,

Turning circle: 0m

Armour: 5mm Titanium Kevlar composite over a thick hardox chassis, the chassis is broken up into triangles for more strength. Behind the front scoop-weapon of the robot there is an 4cm titanium foam to make it even tougher but lightweight due to the fact that it absorbs the hit as its foam. Over the front there is a 5mm hardox plate. All in all that means the front has 51mm of armour. This means that its essentially invulnerable to damage from the front. Everything inside is heavily shcokproofed to counter any kind of blow.

Ground clearance: The front both ways up has a spatula in the weapon givign it 0mm clearance to allow it to get beaneath opponents, the one at the top is hinged inwards so the robot can't rest on the spatulas as it will fold in and allow the robot to fall onto its wheels. The titanium domes at the side prevent it resting on its side while also acting as joints for the weapon.

Weapons: A lack of weapon was baldur beta was in my oppinion its downfall and as such Baldur Gamma has four options both based upon the same basic mechanism.

The weapon shown in the render is the basic default weapon used against everything from full body spinners to toher rammers, its essentially a scoop powered by bellow pnuematics, a compact and lgiht weight system used to lift lorry wheels off the road, they are exceedingly strong. The armouring of the wedge is mentioend in the armour section meaning that is perfect for countering high power spinners. Due to the toughness of the wedge its more or less impossible to remove the scoop by force, the thick side domes are attached through the chassis and hold the scoop on. The weapon works both ways up and lifts to about 70 degrees up from horizontal.

Alternativly for certain situations there is an alternative weapon, the weapon is inertd so it is convex instead of concave and covered in short hardox spines in 5 rows of ten. This means that the front has to be half as thick to allow for the weight, and although thisweapon is rarely used, against lighly armoured skirted opponents it can be very useful for turning an opponent over as it digs into their armour meaning gettign under them is not needed.

This last option is certainly the most sneaky and is the most original, basically The front of the scoop is made much thinner, removing the titanium foam layer and halving the hardox, and all the weight is added onto either the left or the right hand side of the machine. Corresponding to which way a full body spinner spins all the armour will be placed on that side allowing the robot to ram into the spinning ring and hte toughened side take the hit allowing the robot to still get under on the same charge. This has to be used carefully as a larger machine such as MDU would be too dangerous, and as such it would be more sensible to put all the armour in one place, but against tempest for example this setup would be ideal.

Srimech: Invertible

Strengths: built like a tank everything is heavily enough to resist more or less any attack, small and nimble makes it more difficult to hit with things like axes or crushers. Generally just a bugger to dispose of.

Weaknesses: No active damaging weapons weaponry.

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Slammer V

Colour: orange

Weight: 100kg

Shape: Look at the picture, a thin invertible axlebot, with flippers both on top and underneath to turn the robot over and also a weapon at the front which is interchangable. The four bars give structural rigidity and are hardox 3mm rim thickness tubes about 3cm in diamter with an aluminium boron carbide prism runnign down the center.

Wheels: Large axlebot style wheels with motors and gearing inside, they have 8mm aluminium boron carbide hubs over a hardox ringwith a layer of rubber on top for traction.

Motors: 2x 750 watts Bosch motors at 24v.

Speed: 14mph

Turning circle: 0m

Armour: 6mm of aluminium boron carbide over a titanium chassis.

Ground clearance: Varies on weapon, but its not too hard to get under.

Weapons: Has large flipping plates pivoted at the back of the bot, powered by strong and fast linear actuators, these enable the bot to turn itself over which makes it very manouverable and also allows it to slam opponents, each flipping plate has approximatly 300kg of lift.

The weapon at the top (where the saw is on pussycat) is interchangeable depending on the opponent, the weapons are as follows, I’ve tried to make it easy to tell which weapon I will use so you don’t have to wait for me to say, although if it is not obvious I will probably post to tell, in a fight which goes several ways (3 or more) I will optimise for the most highly rated opponent :


1) Hydraulic claw - long claws which are powered by light hydraulics, capable of damaging armour of up to 3mm in materials like steel and titanium and more in softer materials. The two positions below are used against different opponents.

Set-up a) Vertical: the classic set up as shown on my profile, its used for bots with high clearance, especially invertible ones, its also used for horizontal (not full body) spinners and finally robots with external tracks

Examples of opponents:- Tornado, 101, King Buxton, Hypnodisc, Supernova, 3 Stegs 2 Heaven, 13 Black, Fluffy, Invertibrat, Suicidal Tendencies, Warhead, Wild thing (s6)

2) Axe blades: These blades are 20cm long each, about 7cm thick and are mounted above and below the robot turning the machine into a full body axe, at the bottom the blades return on themselves in a hook so when they pierce any armour the slightest movement will cause them to become snagged, then with a flip it can hurl the opponent across the arena, used on robots with light to medium armour on top.

Examples:- chaos 2, cassius 2, firestorm, roadblock, beast of Bodmin, spawn robots

3) Disc: two toothed flywheel made from carbon-steel and has two hardox teeth. The disc itself weights ten kilos, is 40cm in diameter and travels at 1000 rpm.

Set-up A) Mounted vertically. Used for attacking robots with nothing than can be grabbed onto or easily damaged. Also used against robots with heavy armour on top and skirts.

Examples:- Panic attack, biohazard, pussycat, razer

4) Wedge. Wedge mounted at the front which a thick 5mm titanium plate on the front, runs both ways up and allows slammer to have a WBC like throwing motion. Used against less powerful full body spinners and robots with a ground clearance above zero, which can’t self right or have difficulty doing so

Examples of opponents: Mortis, typhoon

5) Lance: A very large spike mounted on the front, made of 5mm hardox over an aluminium frame and sharp at the end it can be used against vertical flywheels as a way to stop them by ramming from the side. It is also used against canon fodder and machines in which none of the other weapons can do anything to as its robustness means if nothing else it can be used to fend attacks.

Strengths: Very manoeuvrable, very adaptable, difficult to keep control of in a fight. Completely immune to lifting forks and flippers so long as it doesn’t get flipped out of the arena.

Weaknesses: Easily flipped (although it won’t effect it at all)