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Re: Swerve vs. Mech?

If the team has decided to go with a Mecanum drive train, focus on it. You can tighten the rollers to get more forward traction, yet you will lose strafing torque. Mecanum drive trains are good a pushing if they square up on the object being pushed before pushing or strafing into it (look at 384 in 2008 on Galileo). Evaluate those tradeoffs and stick with the Mecanum decision!
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