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Experiment 626 vs. Anti-Virus; R4 Week 2 Lightweights
Topic Started: Mar 15 2018, 05:33 PM (16 Views)
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USING WEDGELETS CONFIG.

So, it's another pushing match. He's slightly faster with equal control, but I have an active weapon which will help remove his wheels from the ground and possibly help me get off his wedge.

Start out aggressively, obviously, but initially go for head-on attacks. I'm not sure whose wedge is better. We both have hinged wedgelets; his are narrower, but mine have more weight on them (13 armor vs. 7 armor = thicker, heavier wedgelets). If I can get under him normally, or he's consistently trying to angle in, then focus on avoiding angle-in attempts. If his forks get under me from the front, mix up trying to get under the sides of his forks (people commented on how long 626 and its wedge are. Well, his forks stick out just as far past his wheels, and are narrower), pressing the wedge gently (not enough to lift the front wheels; I shouldn't need that much more pressure to beat his forks), and "feint pressing" to bait an angle-in attempt and then go for his sides/corners.

If he gets under me, try to spin sideways and get off his wedge, pressing the lifter down to "climb" if necessary. If I get under him, push in under his chassis and lift to deny him as much traction as possible. Try to force him into the conveyor belts and floor flippers, especially near the ends of the belts. Their design leaves a lot of spaces for sharp pokey things like his forks, side spikes, and the edge of his plow to get jammed up in, and unlike me he can't raise them off the ground to avoid this. Use the floor spikes if I can make a belt feed him into them, but otherwise the corners are in kind of an awkward location and it would be easier to push him onto a floor flipper instead.

Be aggressive, do pushybot things, and so on.

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Speed: 8 | Traction: 8 | Torque: 4 | Armour: 10 (+2 plow) | Weapon: LOL

Experiment 626
Speed: 7 | Traction: 7 | Torque: 3 | Armour: 12 (+1 front) | Weapon: 1

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I have a great many advantages in this fight:

- I outdo him in every single drivetrain category.
- I have two ends of varying wedginess. He only has one.
- My wheels are exposed and my attachments are hinged. No matter how he gets under me, I will always have a tire on the ground, and I can juke and/or j-hook on a whim. He can't control me. That's very important.
- He cannot outpush me, either. Even if he lifts two of my wheels off the ground, we'd still deadlock. Speed always stays the same, it's only traction and torque that get affected if some wheels get lifted off the ground. Since BOTH speed and torque are factored into pushing power... 7+3 against 8+2. Yeah.

So, what is the strategy? AGGRESSION.

- Drive straight at him. All. Fucking. Match. Go super aggressive. As far as I'm concerned it doesn't matter if he gets under me or not, because it benefits me either way.
- If I get under him, great! Bulldoze him into a corner with a spike, and try to hold him there without getting hit by the spike myself.
- If he gets under me, this is where the fun begins. He's got nothing to hold me on the wedgelets - those exposed wheels of his won't block me at all, they're too far back and his body's too thick. With my drive, I can fly over him and then immediately reverse into him with the hinged plow. If he does get under, he's probably pressing his lifter. Why does this matter? Because he's not going to turn around in time to stop me collecting him onto the plow. But, see! If he does get the lifter pointed at me in time, I can keep ramping even with the plow!
- Don't give him time to breathe. Keep ramping over him and/or delivering him to corners.
- If I'm ever flipped, he's still not safe. Drive inverted-plow at him first, ramp over and use the forks.
- If somehow he ever prevents me from ramping over, j-hook in a way that leaves me to his side. Then slam, bam, thank you m'am.
- Avoid ramping over him in such a way that I end up on a conveyor or floor flipper. If I have to force some space between him and the stuff behind him, so be it.

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