- "This robot's here to amaze. Welcome, Scimitar!"
- — Jonathan Pearce's in-game commentary
Scimitar is a fictional competitor robot in the game Robot Wars: Arenas of Destruction. It is a middleweight class robot with a bevelled wedge body. Its weapon is an axe and it is armoured in aluminium. It can only self-right if it lands on its axe.
Its name is a reference to the Scimitar, a type of curved sword originating from the Middle East.
Strategies[]
Using Scimitar[]
Scimitar can prove to have some good potential, as it can use its axe to deal some good damage to other opponents. Keep away from potentially damaging weapons, though, as Scimitar has weak armour with its aluminium. Avoid flippers as well as it can only self-right if it lands on its axe.
Against Scimitar[]
Scimitar is slower than most other robots, making it good to go for the sides to use powerful weaponry to destroy the armor and the robot. You can fip it over as well, though it is hard to do so, due to the low ground clearance.
Trivia[]
- Like several other fictional robots, Scimitar underwent design changes between early prototypes of the game and the finished release, chief among which is the low dome chassis. Scimitar had a large built-in flipper at the front as well as a rear-mounted 30cm ramming spike. The robot's cosmetic extras also aren't present.
- Due to the shape of the chassis, the flipper weapon clips into the armour.
Scimitar in the July 10, 2001 build of Arenas of Destruction
Scimitar's stats
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