Robot Wars: Wind Power, Maximill vs Typhoon vs Twister vs Storm

Here's something a lot of people have wanted to see, it's a wind-themed battle. In keeping with my policy, we couldn't have Tornado, Typhoon 2, or Storm 2, but I found a creative way around that, with 4 lesser-known wind- themed robots.

Maximill- It's a Dutch robot, based on a windmill. The windmill disc spins round and round, and it supposedly looks like a windmill when standing upright

Typhoon- Not related to the Series 7 champ, this robot resembles Vlad the Impaler with its two lifting poles and box shape. Failed to qualify for Series 4, but was immortalized when it caught the eye of the Tectonic webmaster.

Twister- Another entry from the Dutch, this one's an invertible hexagon with a spinning triangle weapon.

Storm- A rare find, this one, this is the predecessor of the mighty Storm 2. You can see a couple of similarities between this and the 3rd Wrold Champion, but one major difference is that the team spent a lot more time mucking about with weapons on Storm. Storm features a crushing claw on a lifting arm, similar to Anthrax and Wo-Wot


I've also thrown in another Carmen Sandiego clue courtesy of Rockapella. 10 Crime Bucks to the first person what can tell me the location the song is talking about.

Lyrics:

Who's got the loot in Tornado Alley, a stretch of land where twisters abound?
Who's in a state just south of Nebraska, where everyone knows it's windy?

It's windy 'cause air collides, some warm and the rest is cool.
And that's how tornadoes form, as a general rule
(as a general rule)
(as a general rule)
(a general rule)

Who's sucking all the feathers off chickens, and ripping trailer parks into shreds?
Who's spinning cows up into the sunset?
Everyone knows it's windy.

Who's taking all the water from rivers, and tossing pickup trucks around town?
Who's flinging Double Trouble like Frisbees?
Everyone knows it's windy.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Robot Wars
• Robot Arena 2
• replicas

[yahoozle123]

Dear God, where did you find this song?

[ResettisReplicas]

The Carmen Sandiego episode "Stop your Blubbering". I think it's on Youtube, you should be able to find it.

[owain2222]

oh and how did the board game tournament go?

[ResettisReplicas]

7th in "Race for the Galaxy", and joint 7th in "Medici"; much better than I did in those events last year.

[owain2222]

cool vid

i would have thought the crusher crush up tounament would be awsome but u didnt have to.

never seen maximill before

glad twister won :)

[ResettisReplicas]

The thing about crushers is that they don't really work in RA2. The physics engine doesn't allow them to pierce or hold opponents, only make dents in one another's armour. They'd just spend the whole match poking at each other's shells until one of them ran out of life bar.

[produKtNZ]

What a horrid looking 'game' . Which 5 year old coded this atrocity?

[SeriousGamer2009]

FireStorm?

[Gavin17259]

@imlatinoguy A game. It is called RA2 (Robot Arena 2)

[imlatinoguy]

Is that an animation or a game???

[IronHorsez88]

Even watching the first minute of this 4 minute video is too long. Do you seriously have dozens of these boring videos?

[wwefan12431]

what policy?

[yahoozle123]

OK.Pretty sure the state is Kansas.

[davidjuchem]

I looked on the wiki, it says that the same team that made 259 and Wowot made the Typhoon in this fight.