pic: Another concept study

[Garret]

You may want to consider making the macanum's slower. 13 FPS will not give you a lot of torque on the wheels that is needed to make your roboto strafe. In 2011 we used CIMple boxes on our 6inch mecanum's and we were unable to strafe. I may be wrong because I am not a Mecanum master or anything, but this is just from my experience.

What ratio were you using? As Andrew suggested, That sounds more like a problem with the implementation than with the gearing. Our 2011 mecanum drive was around 8:1 and we had plenty of torque and speed to strafe. And besides gearing for torque on mecanum is like gearing for torque in Lunacy, you have just above no pushing power (in most cases) so gearing for high torque doesn't really do anything except slow you down and make you easy to defend against.