Post by lewis on Apr 24, 2011 7:00:42 GMT -5
And for the 3rd time Team Mechanical Menagerie headed overseas to compete in ARC, this time ARC: Armageddon, said to be the final tournament in the ARC series! This tournament attracted a great deal of attention, with over 20 teams turning up to battle. However, there could only be 4 winners and so a new version of Team Mechanical Menagerie appeared, with two new CADs and two returning favourites, again by Aera51Escapee! ( Thanks dude! 
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Team Mechanical Menagerie
LW ~ Hit 'em Harder
With a semi-final and a final to live up to due to the success of it's predecessors, Hit 'em Harder is the successor to Hit 'em Hard and Thwedge. Thwedge was focused on speed and ramming, while Hit 'em Hard was designed to fight spinners. This new design combines these ideas to hopefully produce an overall better bot.
It's now fully invertible again and retains the thwack hammer used on Hit 'em Hard, which can thwack both vertically and horizontally, and reaches to just past the front wedges, which are hinged on the drive axis.
Speed: 8
Weapon: 0
Armour: 8 [+1 to front wedges, -1 to rest of body]
Traction: 6
MW ~ Armageddon
Speed ~ 7
Weapon ~ 0
Armour ~ 8 [+1 to rear bumper, -1 to rest of body]
Traction ~ 7
Having reached the quarter-finals in his rookie season Armageddon is back to make some noise again. Area51Escapee made this great CAD as per usual, and as you can see he has 5 front hinged wedges for getting under other robots and pushing them around, though with his revised stats that give him far more control and traction he should have no problem with that anyway
HW ~ Vertigo
Speed ~ 6
Weapon ~ 9
Armour ~ 4
Traction ~ 3
Full body flipper design similar to Hammerhead 3. Works when inverted, but can also self-right with the powerful flipper. It can afford to have such low armour because the front and top armour is 9 due to the weapon. The flipper is incredibly powerful and should throw bots high into the air and across the box, hence the name Vertigo
SHW ~ Inflammatory Slammer 2.1
Speed ~ 7
Weapon ~ 2
Armour ~ 8
Traction ~ 5
Twice a quarter-finalist, Slammer returns for another stab at the title. Thanks again to Area51Escapee for the excellent CAD This time around only a slight adjustment has been made to his stats and none to his design. He still has a 4WD internal drive and a pneumatic 4 bar flipper, not a lifter, so he should self-right as well as throw opponents slightly into the air, and with a forward push should be able to tip them over successfully.
)Team Mechanical Menagerie
LW ~ Hit 'em Harder
With a semi-final and a final to live up to due to the success of it's predecessors, Hit 'em Harder is the successor to Hit 'em Hard and Thwedge. Thwedge was focused on speed and ramming, while Hit 'em Hard was designed to fight spinners. This new design combines these ideas to hopefully produce an overall better bot.
It's now fully invertible again and retains the thwack hammer used on Hit 'em Hard, which can thwack both vertically and horizontally, and reaches to just past the front wedges, which are hinged on the drive axis.
Speed: 8
Weapon: 0
Armour: 8 [+1 to front wedges, -1 to rest of body]
Traction: 6
MW ~ Armageddon
Speed ~ 7
Weapon ~ 0
Armour ~ 8 [+1 to rear bumper, -1 to rest of body]
Traction ~ 7
Having reached the quarter-finals in his rookie season Armageddon is back to make some noise again. Area51Escapee made this great CAD as per usual, and as you can see he has 5 front hinged wedges for getting under other robots and pushing them around, though with his revised stats that give him far more control and traction he should have no problem with that anyway
HW ~ Vertigo
Speed ~ 6
Weapon ~ 9
Armour ~ 4
Traction ~ 3
Full body flipper design similar to Hammerhead 3. Works when inverted, but can also self-right with the powerful flipper. It can afford to have such low armour because the front and top armour is 9 due to the weapon. The flipper is incredibly powerful and should throw bots high into the air and across the box, hence the name Vertigo
SHW ~ Inflammatory Slammer 2.1
Speed ~ 7
Weapon ~ 2
Armour ~ 8
Traction ~ 5
Twice a quarter-finalist, Slammer returns for another stab at the title. Thanks again to Area51Escapee for the excellent CAD This time around only a slight adjustment has been made to his stats and none to his design. He still has a 4WD internal drive and a pneumatic 4 bar flipper, not a lifter, so he should self-right as well as throw opponents slightly into the air, and with a forward push should be able to tip them over successfully.