[Boltman]

Originally Posted by niklas674

I suspect that in any given match, all three robots will have some for of a gear mechanism. Getting the rp for rotors is easier than everyone is thinking it is. Each robot only needs to score 4 gears. That gives cycle times of 30 seconds per gears leaving 15 seconds to climb. Not to mention auto. While a defense bot will be able to slow 1 robot down, said defense bot will have a hard time shutting down 3.

I think a single defender can guard or slow down significantly entrance to the retrieval zone or jostling Gears out with another doing part time peg ramming perhaps the shooter bot could be effective... hard to place a peg on a spring when being jostled. Also the retrieval zone is a known corner a defense bot with a good drivetrain could impede that for all three bots. So a 30 second cycle all the sudden becomed becomes a 40 second cycle negating the fourth rotor besides I doubt 4 is anywhere near the average success more like 2-3

Plus the traversing blind aspect, and far end acquisition of Gears , loading is easy when on your end the other end not a given