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Re: Defensive Robots/Strategies?

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Originally Posted by qscgy View Post
One idea we also had, which is of questionable legality, is to ram the opposing alliance's airship while a pilot is lifting a gear. If this is allowed, and depending on the construction of the airships, this could cause a pilot to drop a gear.
Disregarding the legality aspect of this strategy, I just don't think that this would be reasonable given the fact that FIRST wouldn't put a major permanent structure on the field without it being extremely secure and well built. It would have to be built specifically to withstand the impact of a robot. It would seem to me that if a robot would be able to shake the entirety of the airship with sufficient force to distract a human player that the airship is not robustly built enough.

I think that this really isn't the best possible defensive strategy. Your better bet would be to go after the robot while its trying to place the gear. Even if their gear just drops into a slot that the drivers pick up from, which is by far the simplest option that there is, then you can still hamper the teams ability to proper place the gear on the peg.
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