Magnitude (HW)

[Un Autre Monde]

[shadow=red,left,300]LIFE AND DEATH[/shadow]

Life
WEIGHT: 60kgs
DIMENSIONS: 70 x 40 x 35 cm
SHAPE: Long wedge, with an inverted wedge at the rear.
COLOUR: Silvery white, with gold trim
DRIVE: 2 S28-400 Magmotors running from 2 NiCd packs at 24v driving steel tracks, with Vulkalon on every fourth tread to provide traction without draining too much battery life.
SPEED: 15mph average, 25mph max
GROUND CLEARANCE: 0 at the front due to the flipper. 0 at the sides due to titanium skirts, with 8mm at the back and beneath the skirts
ARMOUR: 4mm Hardox front, 5mm titanium sides and rear, 3mm aluminium baseplate and under the flipper.
WEAPONS: A pneumatic rear hinged flipper, consisting of the entire front of the robot, running from 1 large Gravity style ram and a 4kg tank of 1000psi nitrogen giving approximately 12-14 flips a fight. The flipper has some Mute style spikes made of titanium to catch opponents on it.
SRIMECH: Via flipper. The sides have small protrusions to prevent stranding.
NOTES: Has a small 'wheelie bar' at the rear to prevent it throwing itself over.
STRENGTHS: Powerful weapon, good armour
WEAKNESSES: Lacks weight

Death
WEIGHT: 50kgs
DIMENSIONS: 60 x 40 x 35 cm
SHAPE: Longish wedge, with a wedge at the rear as well.
COLOUR: Bluish gloss black, with purple trim
DRIVE: 2 S28-400 Magmotors running from 2 NiCd packs at 24v driving steel tracks, with Vulkalon on every fourth tread to provide traction without draining too much battery life.
SPEED: 16mph average, 26mph max
GROUND CLEARANCE: 0 at the front due to wedge. 0 at the sides due to titanium skirts, with 8mm at the back and beneath the skirts.
ARMOUR: 4mm Hardox front, 4mm titanium sides and rear, 3mm aluminium baseplate.
WEAPONS: A hydraulic crushing arm, constructed of steel and duraluminium with a tungsten tip, running from a Vivoil LEM130 pump at 2000psi generating 5 tonnes at the ram and 2.5 tonnes at the tip. Also, the wedge has Mute style spikes made of titanium to catch opponents in the path of the crusher.
SRIMECH: Has a large Hypnodisc-style self righter just behind the crusher, running from a custom gearbox and a motorbike starter motor that self rights it in about one and a half seconds.
STRENGTHS: Powerful weapon, good armour, fast
WEAKNESSES: Lacks weight

The linking is through electromagnets; the robots are designed so the back of Life fits perfectly with the back of Death so they can link up there. They can join up and attack as one if needed, particuarly against rammers and anything else wih a lot of power.

Record: None as of yet.

[Un Autre Monde]

Stiltskin
DIMENSIONS: 120 x 95 x 35 cms
SHAPE: Your common or garden wedge, with a rear reverse wedge and slightly sloped sides
COLOUR: Transparent, inner panels are white
DRIVE: 2 LEM130 motors run at 36v from 6 NiCad packs, driving custom built T6 aluminium and urethane rubber tracks, which are laid out within the robot similar to Kater Killer in S3/4.
SPEED: 12mph average, 20mph max
GROUND CLEARANCE: 0 due to the tracks at the sides and the flipper at the front, about 10mm at the rear and under the side armour
ARMOUR: This is slightly complicated: The main drive motors, electronics, and batteries, as well as all the pneumatics gear save for the ram, are located inside a 4mm Hardox monocoque, which is attached to two 5mm Hardox plates that support the tracks and their drive/idler sprockets, with a 3mm titanium sheet on the outer sides of the tracks to protect from spikes and discs.
However, the main body shape of the robot is constructed from 7mm polycarbonate, with a Hardox frame and reinforcing supporting the front flipper, which both gives the robot its shape and acts as a 'crumple zone' to protect the inner components from harm.
For those who hate descriptions: Hardox and titanium inner armour, polycarbonate outer armour with some Hardox on the front.
WEAPONS: A very powerful rear hinged pneumatic flipper in the front wedge, run on 1000psi Nitrogen stored in 2 2kg tanks to give around 10-15 flips in a fight, with a single nonattached 120mm full pressure ram that gives the entire setup a lot of lifting force, most probably in excess of WBC.
There is a small unpowered wheelie bar at the rear of the robot to prevent it flipping itself over.
SRIMECH: The flipper. The angle of the sides should prevent stranding
THEME SONG: "Inside" by Stiltskin
NOTES: Components and the side and rear polycarb are shock mounted to reduce damage from spinners and rammers and similar nasty devices.
STRENGTHS: Proven design, powerful weapon
WEAKNESSES: Polycarbonate melts at 267 degrees Celsius, so in the event of it coming up against a robot with a microwave oven as its main weapon melting is a possibility.

I noticed Life was doing well, but Death wasn't, so I decided to develop the Life concept into a heavyweight rear hinged flipper, something I lacked.

CAD by Kody 'Mr Render' Kunz

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Magnitude
^{first posted March 2009}

WEIGHT: 110kgs
DIMENSIONS: 120 x 95 x 30 cm
SHAPE: Wedge with rear wedge and Pure Evil esque sloping pointed sides
COLOUR: Dark brown with purple streaks and blades, 'Magnitude' in black on the rear wedge
DRIVE: 2 C40-300 Magmotors run at 24v from 5 NiMh packs, driving custom built inner tracks made from 2014 aluminium and stainless steel pins with urethane rubber bonded to the track links for grip on the arena floor.
SPEED: 14mph
GROUND CLEARANCE: 0 at the front due to the flipper blade and tusk, there are two prongs at the sides of this blade attached to it that help in getting underneath skirted opponents. The clearance under the armour is 10mm protected by 3mm 2014 aluminium skirts at the remaining five sides and rear.
ARMOUR: 3.25mm Hardox over a stainless steel box section frame, baseplate is 5mm 2014 aluminium
WEAPONS: The entire front wedge is a rear hinged pneumatic flipper, which can be run from a variety of systems (1000psi nitrogen being the norm but can be changed, if it's different it will be stated by me on entry) but whichever gas is being used it is stored in a 2.2kg tank which gives around 10-15 flips per fight, fed into a 120mm bore nonattached full pressure ram that provides about 8 tonnes of force at 1000psi, taking into account leverage and losses from friction and such, this works out for the eventual lifting force at...um...enough.
Positioned inside the front of the wedge is a small titanium 'tusk' (think Beast Of Bodmin's weapon, but pointier and sticking out quite a bit more) which is actuated by an electric linear actuator on a 4 bar mechanism. This is Magnitude's main getting underneath opponents tool, it can be lowered so as to actually lift the front of the machine off the ground and drive the tusk into the arena floor with the weight of the front of the robot, which helps to get in underneath skirts and hinged wedges, and when raised it can get opponents' wheels off the ground in order to get further underneath them for a big flip.
SRIMECH: The flipper. The angling of the sides and rear prevents stranding.
NOTES: Most of the internal components where practical have been shockproofed to protect from spinner impacts, as has the front flipper panel.
STRENGTHS: Effective at breaching skirts and other wedges, good weaponry, fast and durable
WEAKNESSES: Ground type; weak to Water, Grass, and Ice, may not affect Flying