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Re: omni drive vs tank

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Originally Posted by SirCharles982
tank treads are WAYYYYY too slow for this game. you gotta go with 4 wheel tank drive. relatively good speed and good push power and easy to do, especially for a rookie team.
do you need me to show you video's? they are not slow so don't say they are.. I will show you video's of how fast and how POWERFULL they are

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But remember tank treads are slow... Time for you to get your facts straight

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Originally Posted by Drew Hopman
Typical answer but not always the truth. You can get high speeds with treads if you have the proper gear ratio. I recall team 61 (i think) moving with great speeds in 04 competition and team 180's old tread system to be very powerful. But be sure to do the engineering before the season starts, or you might run out of time like our team did in 03 and had some serious engineering flaws that we found out on the first day of competition.

We are going 6x6 for this years game....
Yes.. Just look at my signature.. Won a lot of compitions this year..
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Last edited by BillyGoats : 08-01-2006 at 15:59.