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... 🙃
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.
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
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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... 🙃
Same here, although I doubt he'd understand, let alone care.
@@ryanodonovan9497 Carbide was nasty!.
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.
Nasty weapon.
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
@@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.
@@agustinval1508 Tornado was from Huntingdon.
I would love to see Carbide fight Typhoon 2. One of my favourite champions against on of my least favourite champions.
Carbide was similar to Fluffy or Ansgar 3 weaponwise.
The tombstone of robotmwars
i always wanted to see carbide vs the bb carbide knockoff tombstone.
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.
@@TheInvertedFollicle507 Cheers pal.
@@joeandrews7329 aye aye 🙂🙂
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.
Yeah that’s what I thought but tombstone is a whole different animal
@@ryanhenderson5859 Ex Tiberius team Carbide were!.
that first group battle sent a strong message to the other competitors, Dave molds hath become death- destroyer of worlds
Destroyer of arena walls later on.
@@bami2 Eating wheels!.
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.
Evil robot!.
I have these early Carbide fights in the American dub on my channel to check out.😊
Not available in America because of Mentorn. LolScienceChannel
Carbide was awesome!.
Is this show still doing seasons? I loved binge watching robot wars years ago.
False.
Yes then came to the states and got knocked out and set home
Why the hell are they showing the battle as if its in a bar down in the red light district
Loons like rotator
バトルボッツもこれで出て欲しいな
This is a tombstone remake
Carbide's troops were once the Tiberius 1/2/3 team in the wars. Tiberius 3 won the extreme 2 university challenge episode.
Originally from Brighton Tiberius.
@@joeandrews7329 explode
@@joeandrews7329 explode
@@joeandrews7329 explode
Soooo, they essentially copied Tombstone from Battlebots?
Nope. This is from many many many years ago
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.
Ansgar 3 or Fluffy.
@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.