Luckily we had a couple of days between this fight and the next one. This was all just enough to stop the weapon from spinning. How come the weapon stopped? On the second hit that sent Petunia flying, we actually bent our weapon shaft, and warped the shape of the weapon bar slightly. Our second fight, against Team PCP and Petunia from Holland was another great fight with plenty of destruction and this time we caused a fire as well!
see you then!ġ - 0 to Monsoon! Monsoon v Petunia (Episode 6) How can we stop this kind of self-inflicted damage from happening again? Well you’ll just have to see our next fight. Slowing down the weapon enough to reverse it simply takes too long in a fight where every second is vital.ĭiscovery turned our repairs after this fight into episode 1 of Battlebots: Resurrection, have a look at Monsoon Gets Stormed | BattleBots: Resurrection! Ideally we would have reversed the weapon, but in practice we quickly learned that during a fight it was more effective to hit the opponent and try to get flipped back over, or simply hit them with the weapon spinning the wrong way and try to inflict damage. It was great to see Monsoon’s pivot in action, and to be able to show how Monsoon can just carry on running without a break as soon as it's flipped over. If you look closely you can see that Tim was trying to spin up the weapon and it moved slightly then jammed again. The smoke you saw was from the belts slipping, as we couldn’t spin whilst the weapon was jammed. So when we hit Red Devil the wrong way, their plough was drawn into our weapon bulkheads, where it damaged the bottom part of the frame and jammed the weapon. What happened to our weapon though? When we were flipped, our weapon was spinning the wrong way.
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