Well i finally found the motivation to writeup Bert at Brawl (yay)
Look at this dapper gent
5. Stone Cold BBB Brawl Austin
Fight 1: KULT VS BERT THE VERT VS TOUCAN
Going into this, I knew Toucan was a scary bot, very well driven and a tank. Kult, ive not seen before but looked very scary and destructive. but i thought if i could hit it before it got fully up to speed i could make it explode or break something, then deal with Toucan.
Fight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncrPL-5Ki5Q&t=1311s
So basically. well, thats how long i lasted. It didnt go really to plan and showed these RC wheels were made from basically tinfoil. I hit a little seam on the floor, lil bounce, then kult came in, killed 1 wheel, and then killed the other, and it was over.
We are ok!
We are not ok
after this Toucan and Kult had an amazing fight, while Bert was sitting there looking pretty. and knowing what happend to Kult later (big boom) i do feel like we couldve seen that a lil earlier, but meh, you learn from each fight.
I really do love both these bots to bits, oh and theres Bert
At least i made the Thumbnail!
Fight 2: SLOT MACHINE VS BERT THE VERT
Slot Machine is such a cool bot. I LOVE the design and the whole mechanism driving the weaponslidethingy. got to have a close look at it and was just amazed. makes me wanna make one.
Zoom
So for this fight i kept the rc wheels, since its not a high energy weapon, and put on the long forks. still using the same 2 tooth bar. main strat here was to get a hit in from the sides, try and take out something juicy there and avoid the front.
Great Strat, poor usage
Fight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncrPL-5Ki5Q&t=2313s
So Finally i got to use the weapon, after a minute. Slot Machine was amazingly driving avoiding my attacks, slightly frustrating me. Very nice Sawage too, we love slawing.
After a lil while i got a lil nibble on a fork, then remembered: oh yeah, i got bigger forks, USE THEM.
Dink
Queue me going a lil crazy, smashing bits, and making the sawblade do a Pussycat. After asking Rory if he was finished, he said flip it back/keep hitting (one or the other). and after a few more, he was done.
WHEEEEEEEE
So finally, Bert showed what it can do, took it some time but we got there!
Fight 3: BERT THE VERT VS SCHISM
After a solid few minutes of first fighting BBY Deadbod, then Abracantbearsedtospellthewholename. i finally found my opponent, Tweedy with Schism, Skism? why is the sch a sk? english people uuh.
So for this, i said f the Groundgame, lets go basically wedgeless and see what it does. since last fight i found out the drive wasnt fuuully liking the long forks for manouvring, and tweedy being an amazing driver (even getting 4th)
Yes, i love zoompics, no its not an illness
Fight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncrPL-5Ki5Q&t=3555s
So basically, Schism absolutely dominated me in control, i had no time to breath. and it got behind me for some tasty hits, one getting the ziptie caught.
God i love titanium sparks
What i didnt know, and tweedy pointed out, i nearly got the pulley, so at least there was something! oh and ofcourse allot of dirt from the pit.
Theres a hole there
So Bert was out of the competition, but not out of fights! It signed up for a lil Whiteboard way later. Sticking on the Cobalt Esque 1 tooth blade and staying with the no groundgame setup.
Fight 4: SAW LOSER: 2 SAW 2 LOSE VS CARBONATED BEVERAGE VS BERT THE VERT VS EVIL TWIN
Fight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncrPL-5Ki5Q&t=5749s
So i was super scared of Saw Loser, i know how nasty it can be. so i fight tried to go for some of the others, quickly, this turned into going for Saw Loser. Taking a good nick out of the wheel and then getting one big hit in, where it went flying!
Bert doing vert things
After this, i hit the wall, and the belt slipped off, making my weapon no longer do the spin. Then Saw Loser went a lil ham on me, flipping me, bending some titanium bottem and then i did the thing (stupid seams). enjoy some sparky pics!
Ouch, my chin!
Ouch, my bottem!
Look ma, a headstand without hands!
After Alex Kindly Self righted me, he proceeded to take off my top panel and explose my terrible spagetti wiring! how rude!
You can here see the light seeing the light and going away
After that hit i was like yeaaaahhh nooo. i dont wanna break any squishy insides.
After the fight, i gave away the top panel he ripped off and the destroyed tpu top (my dad said, if you rip it off, u can have it). and i got the ruined wheel!
When we got back to the hotel, i really got to see in what state Bert was in, Simply put: Bloody ruined. Much was bend, had holes or was loose. The heat inserts basically said goodbye most places and the battery could be seen from the outside.
Have a few damage pics
So yeah, Brawl was allot of fun, no electronics damaged but yet still enough to improve on. Lets go to the positives and negatives!
Positives:
- It Hits hard, like, It makes me slightly brown my pants
- Foam wheels gave it still enough grip and worked a charm
- The TPU chassis took the hits and the rest of the armour too
- 2mm titanium can take a hammersaw!
- No real service was required
- Easily more serviceable then the last one
Negatives
- The Heat inserts are very crappy, break easily and just dont work as intented
- Not enough drive power to propperly use the large forks to wedge someone
- Wheels were easily targeted fighting an HS
- RC Wheels bad
So its time to make some changes!
6. Bert 3 Vert? Bhird?
Now its time to go make the new bert! Old bert was gifted to my dad with some changes, Renamed Kwalitatief Iets Beter, after the last one was called Kwalitatief Uitermaten Teleurstellend (dont look up the abriviation in dutch!)
Look, its KIB!
With the new Bert, i wanted to fix the big issues.
To fix the heat insert issue, i took some advice from AA and SL. Hex Standoffs. putting those into the TPU and bolting at both sides ment the pannels wont decide to go bye cya adios.
To combat the wheelsniping, i added some side armour thingy to defend from front on attacks, so unless i exposes my back side or side back it should be just about fiiine.
And to make it go faster, i got some new MARS motors from the Amazing Ellis. this in testing made it do a wheely without the front armour!
The all new chassisisisis
After printing the chassis, i found out, ohno the hexes dont fit at all. so i had to reprint it. then i saw my red was nearly empty, so i tossed in the blue TPU, which looks very very tasty!
After this, it was putting everything back together again, and it was ready!
Blueeeeeee
Brought it to the DRG Clubday. Sadly i couldnt fight with it since we had an open arena roof, but i could spin it up, drive and not hit anything.
Yes i make too many robots
So whats next for bert? Well Dortmund in 3 weeks! which will also be streamed on the germanroboteers twitch. see me there fight with my army!
Hopefully ill have time again to do another writeup when thats done!