Combat Robotics
Engineer a robot's drive, weapon, and armour, then battle in the arena.
~$196Cost to start
SteepDifficulty
1–3 hrTime / session
Is it you?
Nobody has scored this against your answers yet. 1–3 hr at a time, $196 to find out whether it sticks.
MessSome cleanupNoiseSome noise
The path15 quests
ASetting up2 things to sort, in any order$196
- Find an event and read its rules first
- Get a chassis kit, electronics and build tools
Then the quests
- Build an antweight or kit combat robot
- Build to a real event's ruleset and pass its tech check
- Wire up the drive and a weapon
Same shape of evening, different thing to hold at the end. Or follow a tag sideways.
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