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Originally Posted by Flak-Bait

Very well, even though we encountered very little defense focused solely on us. We'd do a "roll", where we'd activate the traction drive, plow into the side of the defensive robot, go back to mecanum mode, and push towards the goal while rotating the robot. This would cause us to roll off the side of the defending robot and get past them. In other situations, we could just outdrive them with the agility of the mecanum wheels. The biggest advantage of the locking mecanums is if an opposing robot is pushing you sideways, you can stop dead with a push of the button and, amusingly, confuse the hell out of the opposing robot's drivers.

A lot of the same advantages of octocanum, though with octocanum you can do a 5:1 or greater downshift with little weight and cost built in.