- "Here in a corner of the Hamburg Dockyard the robots fight it out - the action in this impromptu arena is hard and fast, and you'll need all your wits about you to survive. Be careful of falling into the water, or being pushed into the ship's hold."
- — In-game description
The Hamburg Dockyard is a playable arena in the video game Robot Wars: Arenas of Destruction. It is set in Hamburg, Germany and is unlocked after the player earns 8000 credits.
Appearance and Hazards[]
- "The main feature of this Arena is the large Loading Crane continually moving containers around, best not to get in its way! And you can see the hold of the Ship, a handy pit to drop robots into! Specators on the Bridge expecting a good show, let's not disappoint them, eh?"
- — Jonathan Pearce's introduction
The arena is made up of an L-shaped portion of the Dockyard with a Cargo Ship docked at it. On the largest portion of the arena, there are several boxes and a forklift that can be pushed around, as well as two CPZs, guarded by Dead Metal and Matilda.
The other section doesn't start off with anything other than Shunt's large CPZ, but it is very close to the edge of the Dock, making it a good spot for pushing opponents off and into the sea, which instantly eliminates any robot that falls in.
Both ramps to the Cargo Ship are on the larger section of the Dock- one is guarded by Dead Metal, the other is near the corner of the Dock, hazardous due to its lack of guardrails and its close proximity to the edge, making it all too easy to slip off and fall into the water below.
The deck of the Ship acts as a larger fighting area for the arena, its main features being Sir Killalot's large CPZ on the bow, and the Cargo Hold (filled with fish) near the stern- this starts off closed and is only opened when a robot drives over it, giving a few seconds' warning as it does so. When opened, the Cargo Hold acts like a massive Pit, and much like falling into the sea, getting forced into it will instantly eliminate any robot that falls in.
Tournaments[]
Hamburg Heavyweight Cup[]
The Hamburg Heavyweight Cup makes a excellent drinking mug.
- Type: Knockout
- Rounds: 4
- Competitors: 16
- Entry Fee: 1000
- Prize Money: 5000
- Weight criteria: Heavy-Superheavywight
- Price criteria: Unlimited
- Weapon criteria: Axe only
Thor can not compete but Mortis oddly can.
Skull and Crushed Bones[]
The Skull and Crushed Bones Trophy is often pirated by others.
- Type: Capture the Flag
- Rounds: 4
- Competitors: 24
- Entry Fee: 1000
- Prize Money: 5000
- Weight criteria: Lightweight-Medium
- Price criteria: Unlimited
- Weapon criteria: Everything but flipping/lifting weapons
Iron Fist[]
The Iron Fist Trophy really is a knockout prize.
- Type: Knockout
- Rounds: 5
- Competitors: 24
- Entry Fee: 1000
- Prize Money: 5000
- Weight criteria: Lightweight-Super-heavyweight
- Price criteria: Unlimited
- Weapon criteria: Advanced
Trivia[]
- The reason why Thor is not allowed to compete in the Hamburg Heavyweight Cup may be because its rotating side horns are counted as spikes, and as such, are considered another weapon. However, it is unknown why Mortis is eligible despite it featuring both an axe and an lifting arm.
- Strangely, despite the fact that the Skull and Crushed Bones tournament limits the weight class to lightweights and middleweights, multiple heavyweights, such as The Axe Master and Robovore and super heavyweights, like Katharsis and The Manic Volcanic can compete as AI, despite the fact they are well over the weight limit.
- When viewing these robot's stats in the pre-match statistics board, their weight will appear as 62kg.
- In the introduction for this arena, one of Jonathan Pearce's lines says that the crane at the top of the arena can drop containers and crush robots. However, this never happens in the final game.
- Normally, when the player-controlled robot drives onto the middle of the hold when it is closed, it opens up. However, if the player robot uses an axe/hammer weapon (e.g. Electric Hammer), drives as far into the middle of the hold without triggering it, then activates its weapon, only one half of the hold will open.
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