Robot Wars: AOD World Champion speedrun notes

2000 credits start

My First Bot prep: -Sell Eyes (180) -Sell power (100) -Sell drive (120?) -Sell axe (350) -Sell wood (100) ¤getting better armour for safety not neccessary though

-Buy Large built-in flipper (1600) or from scrapyard (1360) -Buy differential - low ratio drive from scrapyard (164) -Buy 2 stroke motorbike engine from scrapyard (193)

-Buy armour from scrapyard (anything lower than 300 credits or so)

¤Items from scrapyard price varies, I've just put prices I have gotten.

Credits left just over 1k potentially if you kept wood armour otherwise 600-900 roughly

The Route if 500 credits left (needs testing): -Win Robot Wars Championship twice to unlock north sea (assault is not worth doing I don't think) (4500) -Win Alpha Viking Open Trophy 3 times to unlock Sao paulo (12000) -Win Scrapyard Challenge cup twice (25000) -Win World Championship

Tournament Unlocks: north sea- 3000 (3000 prize) ¤500 entry japan- 4000 (3000 prize) ¤500 entry Germany- 8000 (5000 prize) ¤1000 entry 4 rounds Sao paulo- 10000 (8000 prize) ¤1500 entry 3 rounds New york- 15000 (16000 prize) ¤2500 entry 2 rounds OR (20000 prize ¤3000 entry 3 rounds)

I'm gonna be testing and doing runs of this category tommorow, so I will make a full guide soon :)

This is great stuff! I had also made a route but I wasn't too sure about it since I didn't have a set list for engines, wheels, and drives; only for armour and weaponry. I also have a different tourney route, so we can compare stuff.

• Go to Professional Mode and press enter on RW Championship
• Before starting the Championship, Adjust My First Bot to sell axe, eyes, and wood, go to the Scrapyard and add a Lifting Arm (324), and Salvaged Steel (468) (Scrapyard items reset every time you re-enter it, so you can come back out and go back in until they're there; loses 2 seconds with good menuing on PC).
• This should leave 1830~ credits left, but you want 1000 spare so you get enough from Robot Wars Championship to enter Alpha Viking Open Trophy.
• 830~ to spend on performance: 12V Battery (200 more than old battery), 12V Dosch drives (an extra 80 for each wheel) [these two upgrades won the World Championship in a test run, including a battle against Chaos 2]
• Win Robot Wars Championship - 3000 credits
• Alpha Viking Open Trophy x1 – Try to chuck them overboard at the helipad - 6000 credits (Japan only needs 5000)
• Rooftop Chase x2 – Drive over the glass and fend off the House Robots that come after you while the other bots fight each other; ‘help’ them fall down if they’re there after you’ve fought off the House bots - 12000 credits (Germany only needs 8000, but in the long run this is better)
• Iron Fist x1 - Simple, just drive everyone into the water - 17000 credits (Sao Paulo only needs 10000, but in the long run this should be better)
• Scrapyard Challenge Cup x1 – Try to use the crusher if a robot is not easily flippable; it’s not fantastic, but it helps - 25000 credits
• Enter and win World Championship

To explain some of the tournament decisions, Rooftop Chase earns the same amount of credits Alpha Viking Open Trophy does in half the number of rounds - while they are Capture the Flag rounds with 4 opponents each, they should end quicker than 4 separate rounds of eliminating one robot, especially since Rooftop out-of-arena eliminations are very fast compared to Oil Rig.

And then Iron Fist has only 5 rounds of eliminating one robot with a quick out-of-arena strat, compared to Scrapyard Challenge Cup which has 2 rounds of eliminating one robot with no quick out-of-arena strat, and then a 6-way annihilator on top of that.

If you want to join the Discord so we can discuss a route, that'd be great :) : https://discord.gg/3dRKr3u