49: InvMech
May 7, 2019Shownotes
Ryan forgets how series 10 worked, weapon ideas are turned on their side, and a new word enters the robot combat lexicon.
- Follow up
- Behemoth and the axe
- Probably lacked the power to make a difference
- We won’t need to remember this for future
- Heavy Metal’s wheels
- A potential do-over?
- Behemoth and the axe
- Front matter
- Robot naming gripes
SawBlaze- Cobalt 2.0
- Correct robot name versioning - coming soon
- Bugglebots
- We’re in!
- The current state of Hello There!
- This episode was recorded April 26th 2019, and since recording we’ve finished the drive and one front end too
- Hammer or axe?
- It now self rights. We are invincible.
- Going dark?
- Robot building > podcasting
- It sucks to be making less regular episodes, but Bugglebots is TOTALLY worth it
- Battlebots coverage?
- Robot naming gripes
- RTNCTI
- The full rules and competitors
- Have we missed any robots? If so, please tell us now so we can add them.
- The very simplified rules:
- Every robot we have official footage of competing in a reboot series of Robot Wars and Battlebots
- Qualifying: 32 1v1s and 32 3-way melees, feeding into a randomised 64 robot bracket
- The result of every bout is decided by the roll of a D7 die.
- This episode’s fixtures (no spoilers):
- The Swarm vs Deathroll vs Gemini
- Kill-E-Krank-E vs Gigabyte vs RAPID
- Moebius vs Brutus vs Petunia
- Gabriel vs Storm 2 vs Tough as Nails
- Push to Exit vs Overdrive vs Hobgoblin
- Gamma 9 vs WAR Hawk vs Nightmare
- Bad Kitty vs Cherub vs Ultraviolent
- Counter Revolution vs Sweeney Todd vs Cobalt
- !!!!!!VERY MILD SPOILERS BELOW!!!!!!
- The Swarm vs Deathroll vs Gemini
- Which parts of The Swarm?
- It turns out there really were two Skyes
- Pull yourself together Ryan, they look nothing alike.
- It turns out there really were two Skyes
- Great White and Deathroll
- Invader is essentially Megabyte, not Moebius
- Which parts of The Swarm?
- Kill-E-Krank-E vs Gigabyte vs RAPID
- RAPID didn’t fight Apex, Ryan clearly doesn’t remember how Series 10 worked
- Flipping a full-body spinner
- Moebius vs Brutus vs Petunia
- Original Brutus
- Petunia’s difficulties against vertical spinners
- Brutus’ top armour
- Gabriel (2) vs Storm 2 vs Tough as Nails
- Storm 2 running the 4-bar lifter
- Gabriel running the big ol’ sword
- How do hammers work?
- (mis-)remembering the Gabriel vs Carbide vs Big Nipper melee
- Push to Exit vs Overdrive vs Hobgoblin
- Most recent versions of Push to Exit and Hobgoblin
- 4WD lifter version of Overdrive
- Ryan’s notes are still terrible
- Ryan almost remembers how Series 10 worked
- Gamma 9 vs WAR Hawk vs Nightmare
- Nightmare’s
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- Nightmare’s
- Bad Kitty vs Cherub vs Ultraviolent
- Bad Kitty’s bold aesthetic
- How does a robot lose to Black Ice?
- Counter Revolution vs Sweeney Todd vs Cobalt
- Degrees of sillyness
- The Swarm vs Deathroll vs Gemini
- The full rules and competitors
- Next episode:
- Carbide vs DisConstructer vs King B Remix
- End Game vs Eruption vs SawBlaze
- High-5 vs Reality vs Splatter
- Witch Doctor vs Lucky vs Shockwave
- Vanquish vs Basilisk vs Black Ice
- Tombstone vs Crackers ‘N’ Smash vs Warhead
- Creepy Crawlies vs Magnetar vs Double Dutch
- Big Nipper vs Parallax vs Crazy Coupe 88
- The rest of the round
- Overhaul vs Mega Tento vs Bucktooth Burl
- Ms Nightshade vs Crank-E vs Son of Wyachi
- Tauron vs TMHWK vs Dantomkia
- The Four Horsemen vs Thor vs Rusty
- Thermidor 2 vs Chompalot vs Sub Zero
- Vulture vs Foxic vs Trolley Rage
- Bale Spear vs Bucky the Robot vs Captain Shredderator
- Wyrm vs Donald Thump vs Huge