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Unread 10-05-2011, 19:57
Ryan Himmelblau Ryan Himmelblau is offline
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Re: Swerve Drive Modules

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Originally Posted by akeisic View Post
Guess what team choose NOT to use a swerve drive this year? Wildstang! And it's practically been there signature for years.

It's typically about what goes on top of the drive train that makes the difference. Glad to see you're working the details BEFORE the season starts.
The reason we chose 6wd this year was purely based off our strategy for this year's game. We deemed early in the build season that for this year, speed was far more important than maneuverability.

Every drive system has it's advantages and disadvantages. You should base your drive train decision off what will complete the task at hand the best, not on what is cool or different or easy.

During our initial brainstorming seasons we had at one time 8 different drive systems up that we were considering. Hooray for double sided white boards!