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Originally Posted by samthesnake
It's so hard to play against defense when you are limited to a mecanum drive. When a team pushes you, you can not side shift over like you can with swerve. Name an Einstein robot that used mecanums in a defense heavy game, because I can't think of one. The majority of Einstein robots (90+ percent) in defense heavy games are swerve or some kind of tank drive like West Coast Drive. Also, if you are a low resource team, you will not be picked to play defense if you have a mecanum drive if there are teams available with better swerve or tank systems. That's just my opinion, though.
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Hey, another member from 1389 here. The idea would be to use the versadrop modules (
http://www.vexrobotics.com/vexpro/all/217-4824.html) to switch between mecanum (for lateral alignment with boiler/airship) and tank drive for getting around defense and traversing the field.