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prong
Experienced Roboteer
Joined: 19 Jun 2004
Posts: 839
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It is slightly more complex than that Angus
Its the idea of having an air gap inside your robot between an outer shell and your inner breakable bits.
So say if a robot with a saw has 5cm of reach with the blade, if you have 10cm of air armour the saw slices through the outer armour but the rest of the intact armour stops the robot from getting closer than the outer shell, so the blade only reaches halfway to your vitals.
Same thing against a spinner, the spinner rips chunks from yoru outer shell, but even with bits missing it stops the spinner getting close enough to damage your vitals.
It also applies to axes, spikes etc, they can penetrate your outer armour but not reach the vitals.
Usually using air armour you end up with a big bot and thin armour, but lots of it can get dented, torn off or filled with holes without damaging the internals.
My first robot, Robort, was like this, it has all sorts of lightweight armour, chicken wire, plastic, stell tube etc wired onto the outside and fighting Jolt it got most of it torn off, but Jolt could never reach anything critcal to kill me outright.
Air armour is great , cheap too!
Last edited by prong on Wed Aug 23, 2006 10:12 pm; edited 1 time in total
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