Shell Spinner

Real life examples: Typhoon, Megabyte, Ziggo

In game examples: None (DSL: Grog, The Vengeful)

Offspring of the classic horizontal spinner.

Shell spinners features one spinning shell (a cylinder generally closed at the top) surrounding the chassis. Several weapons are when attached to the shell. This protects the bot, as well as creating a powerful weapon to defeat other bots. Usually in these bots, chassis armor is weak, because most enemies will only be able to hit you when your shell has been knocked off, at which time your pretty much screwed anyway.

The DSL pack is the best way to create shell spinners.

Examples include Scrap Daddy's BBEANS4 entry, Iron Spaghetti

(flail shell spinners are pretty much uncommon, that said)

Pros:

• All sides of the robot are protected meaning they will not be capable of manuvering out of your damage zone.
• Known for devastating damage.
• The shell spinner parts usually mean a very well protected chassis.

Cons:

• Very difficult to drive and assess the orientation.
• The emphasis on power leads to a slow drive train which leaves you a sitting duck.
• Srimechs are a challenge to apply to these bots (if not impossible) meaning ground clearance is the hardest part of building and a vulnerability to a flipper that can manage to get close.
• If the robot uses heavy weights then the loss of one will lead to a catastrophic gyro dance.

Flail Shell Spinner

Flail Shell Spinner are like regular Shell Spinners except their weapons are attached to axle mounts. This allows the weapons to scrape against the opponent instead of smacking them. This allows for greater faster damage, but leaves the bot more vulnerable to fast wedged bots, which they can't push away as easy as fixed weapon Shell Spinners. This also allows for the Shell Spinners to maintain its spinning momentum due to the impact being absorbed by the weapon and axle. Aside from the normal Shell Spinner weaknesses, Flail versions are generally very hard to drive straight, thus they have very poor vulnerability, and the moment that shell falls off, it becomes a havok mine.

Two of the most famous Flail Shell Spinners are Iron Spaghetti and Steel Meetball, both built by Scrap Daddy.