Shatter gets so maniacal with its attack that it manages to hit one of Lock-Jaw’s front fork things and get its axe wedged in between where the fork meets Lock-Jaw’s chassis. Lock-Jaw is finally able to get back at Shatter’s side but the minute this fight drifts over toward the Pulverizer and Lock-Jaw’s fork dips into the fucking Killsaws again Shatter breaks free, swings its axe, and blows up even more of the polycarb on Lock-Jaw’s lid. Shatter starts swinging its hammer a little more generously and one of the swings actually does miss because it goes between Lock-Jaw’s wheels, but another one connects directly onto the tips of the spinning blades kicking the hammer back into place.
Battlebots shatter full#
The next time some dumbass redneck sees BattleBots and says “why dun they just put guns on em” you can show them this fight and tell them to print out the full text of the second amendment and shove it all the way up their stupid ugly ass. That’s bulletproof glass half an inch thick that’s just been busted apart by Shatter’s pick axe. It looks like the hammer misses because it dips between Lock-Jaw’s tires, and maybe it does, but it first connects with the upper polycarbonate armor that Donald added to his robot and… uh, shatters it. Shatter responds to this attack with one of its own.ĭon’t be fooled, it only looks like Lock-Jaw is scoring points here. Lock-Jaw takes this opportunity to land a glancing shot to Shatter that rips away some more panels as it digs into the hammer bot’s UHMW armor. Lock-Jaw stabs the floor with its front prongs and this sudden hang up causes Shatter to overshoot its drive and pass Lock-Jaw up. The hammer is working too of course, it just doesn’t connect because Lock-Jaw is basically expert mode when it comes to moving targets.
So far Shatter’s spinner catchers are working as intended. This takes a couple seconds and then Lock-Jaw spins around to immediately go on the attack, knocking off one little triangle panel. Lock-Jaw makes a tactical move and runs diagonally along the arena to avoid Shatter and get its weapon up to speed. One question though Donald: do you have the fucking ground clearance for all this? What happens when Lock-Jaw inevitably gets flipped over and you’ve stacked four feet of extra armor panels on top of it? Donald’s the veteran and former champion though, not me, so I guess I trust his judgment until his robot starts smoking. He mentioned that he’s already upgraded Lock-Jaw’s armor to its thicker 1/4” panels – which for the record is fucking ridiculously thick for titanium – but he’s also slapped another 1/2” of polycarbonate on top of that and cut a special band of the plastic to cover Lock-Jaw’s weapon belts to prevent Shatter from sniping them. We’ll see if they work, but chances are there’s gonna be more than triangles for Adam to pick up once the fight’s over.ĭonald Hutson is taking this fight seriously. Shatter is also rolling into battle with special front forks that are meant to keep vertical spinners at bay and reduce their reach. Adam’s put the triangles back on now that he’s shown the judges “these things are just for style and are held on with scotch tape because the robot’s name is Shatter you goddamned dolts”. In its previous match Shatter went into battle jet black without any of its little decorative triangles because Adam Wrigley thinks the judges are stupid and that when those ablative pieces are knocked away that’s counted against him as damage.
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