Periodic Table of the Defenses

[caboosev11]

Originally Posted by Chak

To make the pronunciation easier on me, I call it "the French thing". I have to explain which one I'm talking about, but I'd have to do that anyways if I tried to properly pronounce it.

My team does the same thing. We also say "French Quarter." We call the porticullsi the guillotine and the cheval the shovel.

[Rebel888]

the way i remember the defenses:
Port (portcullis)
Sally (sally's port)
Seesaw (Cheval de frias [i know i demolished the name])
Rock (rock wall)
Moat (you'll have no idea what this one is)
Drawbrige
Rough (rough terrain)
and Ramp (ramparts)
I hope this helps and you have a safe and amazing build season!!

[Jimmy M.]

I think this is hurting more than helping because they the students should put some effort to know the name of the defenses but this is just me

[CalTran]

Originally Posted by MrRoboSteve

The field CAD shows casters on the bottom of each of the defensive components. The casters look to be arranged in a pattern to prevent reversed placement.

The castors were also mentioned in the FIRST blog last week.

Originally Posted by Kickoff and... Arnold Schwarzenegger?

Though this will be one of the most physically demanding field resets we’ve had, the defenses are actually all on casters and drop into the defense bases through a cleverly designed system our Mechanical Engineering team, led by Derek Foster, developed. - See more at: http://www.firstinspires.org/robotic....70zsw71u.dpuf

Emphasis mine.

[Bob Steele]

Originally Posted by MaGiC_PiKaChU

frise actually translate to "curl" when speaking of hair, or the edge near the ceiling when speaking walls.
In this case Frise is the name of a european region witch probably invented that thing

source: first language is French

French: Cheval de frise literally means "Frisian horse" The Frisians, having few cavalry, relied heavily on such anti-cavalry obstacles in warfare. (wikipedia)

Back when I did Revolutionary War re-enacting we saw these on battlefields.
If you ever go to Yorktown you will see reproductions of them Quite effective and until barbed wire came along they were used to repel cavalry. Of course the originals did not rotate like these. They were rigid and came to points. Below is a picture from the actual Petersburg battlefield (Civil War) (courtesy wikipedia)


my first language is
German my family came from Alsace-Lorraine... annexed by French after WWI.....

[MaGiC_PiKaChU]

Originally Posted by Bob Steele

French: Cheval de frise literally means "Frisian horse" The Frisians, having few cavalry, relied heavily on such anti-cavalry obstacles in warfare. (wikipedia)

Back when I did Revolutionary War re-enacting we saw these on battlefields.
If you ever go to Yorktown you will see reproductions of them Quite effective and until barbed wire came along they were used to repel cavalry. Of course the originals did not rotate like these. They were rigid and came to points. Below is a picture from the actual Petersburg battlefield (Civil War) (courtesy wikipedia)


my first language is
German my family came from Alsace-Lorraine... annexed by French after WWI.....

The more you know... Very interesting!

[rfolea]

Originally Posted by CalTran

The castors were also mentioned in the FIRST blog last week.
Emphasis mine.

There is an excellent view of the casters in this video about field reset.

[adciv]

Originally Posted by Bob Steele

French: Cheval de frise literally means "Frisian horse" The Frisians, having few cavalry, relied heavily on such anti-cavalry obstacles in warfare. (wikipedia)

Back when I did Revolutionary War re-enacting we saw these on battlefields.
If you ever go to Yorktown you will see reproductions of them Quite effective and until barbed wire came along they were used to repel cavalry. Of course the originals did not rotate like these. They were rigid and came to points. Below is a picture from the actual Petersburg battlefield (Civil War) (courtesy wikipedia)


my first language is
German my family came from Alsace-Lorraine... annexed by French after WWI.....

Heh, I remember seeing these in photos/movies from D-Day. I think they're still in use today as part of anti-ship countermeasures near shore lines.

[dubiousSwain]

Originally Posted by adciv

Heh, I remember seeing these in photos/movies from D-Day. I think they're still in use today as part of anti-ship countermeasures near shore lines.

I think you're thinking of Czech Hedgehogs.

EDIT: Original image was huge

[GMeyer]

Hello!

Is it okay if I use the Periodic Table of the Defenses on my team's website? I will give full credit to ajsmith.

[ajsmith]

Originally Posted by GMeyer

Hello!

Is it okay if I use the Periodic Table of the Defenses on my team's website? I will give full credit to ajsmith.

That is perfectly fine. It is here for you to use!