CARBIDE'S DEBUT | Robot Wars HD

[@AnvilAL94]

Credit where it's due, Terrorhurtz is the only machine to comfortably beat Carbide without a judges decision or a working weapon since its axe wasn't in action. Carbide on the whole though left a huge impression here, next to Gabriel it's my favourite robot from Series 8-10. Oh yeah before you comment Joe Andrews I muted you, so shut up... 🙃

[@ryanodonovan9497]

Same here, although I doubt he'd understand, let alone care.

[@joeandrews7329]

@@ryanodonovan9497 Carbide was nasty!.

[@MarkSW]

I would love to see Carbide fight Typhoon 2. One of my favourite champions against on of my least favourite champions.

[@joeandrews7329]

Carbide was similar to Fluffy or Ansgar 3 weaponwise.

[@ryanodonovan9497]

Ah, Carbide. The robot I'd put on my personal Mount Rushmore of Robot Wars machines alongside Chaos 2, Hypno-Disc and Razer for having such consistent dominance with its destructiveness. No other robot performed that well throughout the series' reboots.

[@joeandrews7329]

Nasty weapon.

[@agustinval1508]

I'd replace hypnodisc with tornado personally, but yeah carbide deserves to be there, reaching the grand finale 3 times in a row is one hell of an achievement

[@ryanodonovan9497]

@@agustinval1508 I would never put Tornado over Hypno-Disc. Yes, Tornado won more trophies and set a new standard for pushing power, but Hypno-Disc set the standard that would continue to this day for weapons of sheer destruction, which is what Robot Wars as a whole is supposed to be about. Plus Tornado’s history is tainted by how it undeservedly got the UK Championship.

[@joeandrews7329]

@@agustinval1508 Tornado was from Huntingdon.

[@vac-dude9190]

The tombstone of robotmwars

[@TalamarAmV]

i always wanted to see carbide vs the bb carbide knockoff tombstone.

[@TheInvertedFollicle507]

Actually it's the other way round Ray Billings is super well known for his two wheeled bar spinners like Tombstone, Last Rites and Mortician so Tombstone is in fact the original bot design not Carbide. The concept of Tombstone goes all the way back to 2001 which preceded Carbide by 15 years.

[@joeandrews7329]

@@TheInvertedFollicle507 Cheers pal.

[@TheInvertedFollicle507]

@@joeandrews7329 aye aye 🙂🙂

[@Headbanger142]

After fighting with Turbulence and Tiberius for a few years Dave Moulds and Sam Smith took a good look at Tombstone and decided "Huh. We could do something like that." Boom. Carbide.

[@ryanhenderson5859]

Yeah that’s what I thought but tombstone is a whole different animal

[@joeandrews7329]

@@ryanhenderson5859 Ex Tiberius team Carbide were!.

[@marianosolores5647]

Por lo que veo era una especie de proto-Tombstone; un sistema similar pero con mucha menos velocidad de rotación y potencia en su arma. Aunque en aquellos años debió ser revolucionario. Lo que me gusta es que tenía protegidas sus ruedas. Es algo que siempre me pregunté por que no corregía Tombstone, siendo por lejos su mayor debilidad.

[@joeandrews7329]

Evil robot!.

[@shawnfoogle920]

Is this show still doing seasons? I loved binge watching robot wars years ago.

[@joeandrews7329]

False.

[@deadeye_john]

I have these early Carbide fights in the American dub on my channel to check out.😊

[@Headbanger142]

Not available in America because of Mentorn. LolScienceChannel

[@joeandrews7329]

Carbide was awesome!.

[@zebrastripedyt6050]

that first group battle sent a strong message to the other competitors, Dave molds hath become death- destroyer of worlds

[@bami2]

Destroyer of arena walls later on.

[@joeandrews7329]

@@bami2 Eating wheels!.

[@tymz-r-achangin]

Why the hell are they showing the battle as if its in a bar down in the red light district

[@anthonychapman4429]

Yes then came to the states and got knocked out and set home

[@MagTony357]

Loons like rotator

[@earthknight60]

Soooo, they essentially copied Tombstone from Battlebots?

[@esm7708]

Nope. This is from many many many years ago

[@bami2]

Hardcore Robotics doesn't own a patent on spinning a large piece of steel on a horizontal plane. There is also plenty of prior art from horizontal spinners during the Comedy Central Battlebots days (or even classic robot wars with bots like Fluffy). I'm sure Dave Moulds looked very closely at the success of Tombstone/Last Rites with competitions like Robogames before designing Carbide, but it's not a copy with a completely new design more adapted to Robot Wars: it has a wedge, more compact build with heavier armour, enclosed wheels without much shock mounting but they used the same type of weapon motor as Tombstone (and bots like Deathroll) Calling it a copy does a disservice to the engineering work done in Carbide, if you look at Russian or Chinese robot combat there are a lot more true tombclones around.

[@daddysullivan87]

Tombstone would smoke this dude, the bot speed is faster as well as the blade speed. It would be a fairly quick knockout

[@joeandrews7329]

Ansgar 3 or Fluffy.

[@bami2]

@@daddysullivan87 I'm not sure. Yeah Tombstone has probably more energy in the weapon and is more maneuverable, but Carbide was pretty well setup to fight other horizontal spinners with the big wedge and the enclosed wheels. It would be a close fight, basically depending on if Carbide can get to the wheels of Tombstone first or if Tombstone can rip off that wedge/cave the side armor in that the wheels of Carbide jam up.

[@あっとまーく猫さん-h5k]

バトルボッツもこれで出て欲しいな

[@joeandrews7329]

Carbide's troops were once the Tiberius 1/2/3 team in the wars. Tiberius 3 won the extreme 2 university challenge episode.

[@joeandrews7329]

Originally from Brighton Tiberius.

[@zdr7249]

@@joeandrews7329 explode

[@adams_other_stuff]

@@joeandrews7329 explode

[@ClashTommyGun78]

​@@joeandrews7329 explode

[@darkpsyjunkey]

This is a tombstone remake

[@tdh7865]

The pit is the worst part of Robot Wars

[@joeandrews7329]

A flare goes off when robots drop in!.

[@EleanorPeterson]

True, it spoils a lot of Robot Wars fights by ending them prematurely, but it was put there to give control-bots a chance to beat kinetic weaponry. A well-driven control-bot could outfight a terror-bot by grabbing it and using the Pit as a weapon. By way of contrast, the BattleBots arena favours kinetic weapons and destruction. There's not a lot a skilfully-driven control-bot can do to get a decisive win against a massively destructive spinning weapon. The BattleBots arena hammers are lame; the killsaws are pathetic, the screws are feeble; the shelf is a waste of time. A flipper-bot can theoretically dump an opponent behind a side rail or even toss it out of the arena in one spot, but BattleBots has nothing really to offer a bot that relies on manoeuvrability and control. It discourages clever-bots and glamour-bots. It wants big weapons and sparks and big hits. That's all. It gets kinda boring once you're past the age of 15. Replacing one of the weaker arena hazards with a Pit would make BattleBots far more interesting for 'clever-bots' - grippers, grapplers, pushers, lifters, walkers, and so on - but the programme is fixated on machismo HULK SMASH action, not skill and ingenuity, so a Pit would never be considered. I found the Robot Wars house robots far more useless, annoying and intrusive than the Pit of Oblivion.

[@joeandrews7329]

@@EleanorPeterson Tough As Nails used his plan like excellence.