Rookie team, First Choice AndyMark

[Joe G.]

In my opinion, your first two items should be, without a doubt:

-Battery. You can never have enough batteries, and these go quickly. Skip the cables, they provide many of these in the KoP each year, and are easy to purchase if you need extras.

-4x Victor 888. You need to acquire a large number of speed controllers, and in your rookie year, likely won't gain much from the new features of the SP/SRX.

After that, my next suggestion would be a full pneumatics system. Pneumatics are not included in the kit, and it's nice to be able to test out ideas that require them early in the season. To get yourselves up and running with pneumatics, you'll need the compressor, fitting kit (two may be a good idea), pressure switch, a roll of tubing (one is plenty to get through a season,) a few of the plastic air tanks, teflon tape (or not, it's cheap/easy to acquire locally), and a few of the cylinders. You'll also need to pick up a regulator and some solenoids from Andymark or VexPro.