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Here's the official ARC Arena used in every upcoming ARC league. Let's start off with a nice overview of how the stadium itself looks. This also gives you a good idea of arena size comparison to the actual bots. We have two heavyweight bots, SUNCUST (red square, north side) and ToC (blue square, south side) as examples. Also check to see which bots had the honor of making it on the four walls of the stadium itself.

The arena hazard that always seems to stay. It's the pulverizers! 4 pulverizers located in each four corners of the arena. These big hammers are intended for inflicting strong damage. If you get hit by these enough times, you could find yourself either crippled or KOed.

Another favorite is the killsaws. These triple sawblades cause minor damage and are good for showing off (sparks). Prolonged exposure to the saws, though, can lead to critical damage depending on the conditions.

The next hazard we have is the wall drum. This weapon is meant primarily for torque. Hazard is effective for flipping bots or tossing them round. Damage is minimal.

There are two sets of wedge walls on the west side of the arena, and one long set on the east side. Good for pinning bots and possibly even flipping.

The spike strips are back in ARC. There are sets of spikes located in the north and south sides of the arena.

Are you a fan of Battlebots? Maybe Robot Wars? Did you ever want to know what it's like? Well, here's your chance in our exclusive robot style RPG's! All you need to do is three simple steps to join up.

1. Create your own bots in some sort of CAD program. In can be anything from Rhinoceros 3D Modeling to mspaint. Basically, you just need a picture of what your bot looks like. If you don't know how to draw or do CAD, you can always ask someone to do it for you on the CAD Request thread in our forums.

2. Enter stats for your bots (see below for stat system).

3. Role play with your bot on a weekly basis. All this means is you have to see who your opponent is for that week, and write up a strategy against them in the Role Playing Board section of the forum. Don't worry, your role play doesn't have to be very detailed. Short and simple works, too. However, detail doesn't hurt, so if you want to really go all out in your strategy, you go for it.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Signup Information

Role Playing

1. Ways of Role Playing
2. Rules of Role Playing

Stat System

Bot Building Rules

1. Design

2. Stats

• Numbers and Limits
• Speed
• Traction
• Armor
• Weapon

SIGN-UP INFORMATION

- Everyone enters a total of four bots, one from each weight class (Lightweight, Middleweight, Heavyweight, Superheavyweight) and assigns them stats using 30 points per bot. Points will be divvied up by 6 categories:

-Speed
-Traction
-Torque
-Wedge Effectiveness
-Armor
-Weapon Power

Note: Armor and Wedge Effectiveness may not exceed 16 points combined.

- The battles will take place in a Round Robin style (as opposed to the traditional tournament style) in which each bot will face every other bot once with playoffs afterward to determine the champion of each weight class.

- No double entering the competition (which means no smurf accounts or anything like that).

- The administrators have the right to reject any robot submission, stat allocation or design aspect that is considered to be unfair or exploiting the rules in any way.


ROLE PLAYING

1. Ways of Role Playing

In these leagues, we have always made it a priority to focus on role playing and emphasizing strategy. However, with our new role play system in place, our role play system is more user friendly than ever before. Role playing can now be done in one of three ways:

General Strategy:

Prior to the season, competitors will be given a chance to create a “strategy guide” in a designated thread that will allow them to number or label recurring tactics for each of their bots. The strategy guide is designed to cut down on redundancy in role plays and make it easier for competitors to copy/paste recurring tactics week-to-week.

Example:

“Strategy #1 – Approach straight on with the front wedge.
Strategy #2 – Approach straight on with the back plow.
Strategy #3 – Maneuver to sides with back plow.
Strategy #4 – Push him to the saws with back plow.
Strategy #5 – Push him to the hammers with back plow or wedge.”

With that set of strategies, a typical RP might look something like this:

“Use strategies #3, #4, and #5. If all fails, go to strategy #1.”

Custom Strategy:

This is the traditional ARC style of role playing and has been mandatory in every single ARC-sanctioned RPG of the past. It consists of summarizing your strategy and exploiting weaknesses with a specific opponent. You are allowed 500 maximum words to write for a custom strategy. After 500 words, the results writer reserves the right to disregard the remaining portion of the strategy. Length does not necessarily help you. The quality of the RP will be based on strategy, clarity, and practicality. Keeping it short and simple is recommended!

Combination Strategy:

You may use both strategies from your strategy guide in the General Strategy but also add on a Custom Strategy as an addendum.
None of these three strategies are recommended over the other. They all have an equal chance of winning in any given match.

2. Rules of role playing:

• ROLE PLAY ON TIME - New fight cards are posted every week. Check the fight card to see when the due date for the card is. As long as you get your role plays in before then, you'll be fine. Always role play in "Fantasy RP Room" in the forum. If you role play AFTER the deadline, you still might be able to get your RP in before it's too late but do it fast because after the deadline, the writer's start to do the results and they aren't waiting on you. If they get around to your result before you have your role play in under the RP board, it goes in as a forfeit and you lose.

• Be polite – It’s usually common courtesy to extend a wish of good luck to your opponent at the end of an RP, although not necessary. The main idea here is that you do not talk down to your opponent, that you do not regard their robot or their stat allocation as idiotic or anything of such. It is perfectly possible to say that the opponent is poor without resulting to poor manners.

• DO NOT REFERENCE YOUR OPPONENTS RP – This is one that I cannot stress enough. Even vaguely referencing them is frustrating and completely ruins the system of trust. Waiting for your opponent to RP in order to get an idea of what they are doing, and then just ‘happen’ to defend yourself against that tactic is frustrating as well. Try not to read your opponents RP at all, until you have finished yours if you can avoid it.

• Do not be arrogant – This is an extension of being polite but is way more important. Even if you’re fighting a Y-Drive spinner that has an omni-wheel drive, just simply state your tactics and how the opponent will succumb to them.

STAT SYSTEM

As previously stated, the point system will be the same as the past three tournaments with 30 points being divided up between Speed, Traction, Torque, Wedge Effectiveness, Armor and Weapon.

Speed: This stat affects how fast your bot moves around. For thwack bots, including Y-drives, however this acts as your actual spinning speed while thwacking.

Weapon: This stat affects how powerful your bots weapon is. If this stat is higher than your armor, then it is also reflective of your bots weapon armor. For thwack bots, including Y-drives, this stat indicates the bots actual floor maneuvering speed, while your bot is spinning.

Torque: This stat is reflective of how pushy your bot is. The higher it is, the more leverage you’ll have in pushing contests.

Traction: This governs a bots ability to have control. Low traction bots will have poor turning abilities and will be unable to utilize driving strategies nearly as effectively. For good traction results, your speed:traction ratio is recommended at 1:1.

Wedge Effectiveness: This stat governs how low wedging is on an individual bot. Static wedge bots with 4 or more wheels are limited to a maximum of 5 stat points and 2-wheeled static wedge bots are limited to a maximum of 7 stat points. Shufflers, walkers, treadbots and any other form of drive system is on a case-by-case situation.

Armor: This stat is how durable your bot is. The higher it is, the more damage it will be able to withstand. As with Weapon, if it is higher than your weapon power, than this stat will be reflective of the weapon armor.

Note: Administrators reserve the right to modify a bot's individual stats based on discrepencies with the picture of the design.


BOT BUILDING RULES

Overview: This set of rules and regulations will govern all RPG’s officially sanctioned by A.R.C. Drowning city will not officially support RPG’s that do not use these rules. This document is meant to be as all encompassing as possible, but remember that we promote abstract thinking. If you have a design not covered under this document, present it to the moderators first. At that point a decision will be made and agreed on by no less than 3 members of the A.R.C. RPG staff, as well as the person running the league (if it is an RPG sanctioned but not run by A.R.C.). Remember though that we are busy, and you need to present your designs in a timely fashion if you want them considered.

Note: There have been formulas added to this list in order to get a more detailed look into each individual match and prevent certain designs from going out of control. On that note, these formulas are not hard and fast rules, they are “helpful guides” so to speak. Meaning, if a bot is calculated to have a 50% chance of KOing a certain bot, we’re not just going to flip a coin and decide his fate on that. That might be a factor if both design and role play factors are dead even, and we have to go on stats solely to determine the outcome. They are intended for you, as the RPer, to use the formulas to your advantage when necessary and for the writers to “keep in mind”. That doesn’t mean they are not important, just don’t take them religiously. Aside from that, though, here are the rules we have set in place.

I – Designs

1 – Legality: All designs must comply with the regulations of the RFL for legality. For example, no external combustion engines, liquid or gaseous weapons, electrical stun weapons, RF jamming, entanglement devices, etc. A.R.C. does allow the use of flames as a weapon but not in the form of plasma or oxy-acetylene cutting torches. If you are unsure of your weapon’s compliance to the RFL rules, ask a moderator (preferably FishofDoom or StarlessSoldier)

2 – Weight: Obviously we can’t weigh a picture of a robot but please try to make yours look like it belongs in the weight class it will compete in.

3 – Realism: This one is somewhat opinion based, and also limited to the designer’s artistic capabilities. However, we ask that you try your best to keep your designs realistic. For example: A picture of a LW with 5 Eteks stuffed into it is not only incredibly unrealistic, it’s also pointless due to the limit of the weapon stat. Similarly, a SHW with a 3:1 reduced mag motor for lifting will still lift, but will be highly unrealistic. Also, if you plan on using uncommon technology (i.e. Hydraulics, Omni-drive, Turbo and EFI engines) please have the decency to know how they actually work.

II – Stats

1 – Numbers and Limits

A – Wheeled robots: This will be any robot using tires, treads, saw blades, shuffling beams, parts of its own chassis and frame, semi-omni (mixture of omni and normal tires), giant track balls, or any other rotating mass touching the floor to propel itself. Wheeled robots will be allowed 22 stat points. They must have at a minimum 1 Speed, 1 Torque, and 1 Armor. There are no maximum stats for wheeled bots, except for those limited by the total number of points available.

B – Zero Traction robots: This is any robot using exclusively omni-directional tires, or a hover craft (air or magnetic) system. These robots will have a maximum of 22 stat points available. They must have 0 Torque (No traction or pushing power what-so-ever). They must also have at a minimum 1 Speed and 1 Armor. There are no maximum stats for ZT bots, except for those limited by the total number of points available.

C – Walking robots: This is any robot that moves by contact with the floor other than that outlined under section A. Also, the part moving the robot or contacting the floor may not be capable of moving 360 degrees total. These robots will be allowed a maximum of 26 stat points. Walking robots must have at a minimum 1 Speed, 1 Torque, and 1 Armor. Their total Speed and Torque however, must not exceed a combined 9. Any combination of Speed and Torque is acceptable, provided they add up to 9 or less. Bonuses that increase Speed and Torque do not apply to walking robots. Walking robots have also a maximum stat limit of 22. No single stat (weapon and armor) may exceed 22.

D – Multi-bots: Multi-bots are covered under the same rules as stated in sections A, B, and C. Any combination of wheeled or ZT bots and Walking bots will be considered wheeled. Multi-Bots have two forms. Equal/Near equal weight, and non-equal weight. Equal/Near equal weight robots will be given the number of stats for their type (the whole robot must qualify for the walker bonus) minus 3 points times the number of parts. For example, 2 wheeled robots together will each have 16 points (22-6), while 3 wheeled robots will only have 13 points (22-9). Non-Equal multi-bots (i.e. “little helpers”) will have no active weapons and will have a speed, torque, and armor of 1. The main robot will also lose 1 stat point for each additional part.

2 – Speed: This stat will cover 3 separate but related functions. These are linear (straight line) speed, rotational (turning) speed, and acceleration.

A – Linear speed is how fast the robot can travel from point a to point b, and also includes a provision for deviation due to uncontrollable speed. Linear speed is defined as the robot’s speed stat, multiplied by 2, plus 2 for every 5 points. Also, the control element will be degrees of deviation (how far off line the robot becomes) in 20 feet. This equation will be the robot’s speed, multiplied by four, divided by the number of wheels the robot has (Tracked, shuffling, omni, and walking robots are considered to have 6 wheels). It all sounds confusing but this simple chart will help.

1 – 2 fps & 4/x 2 – 4 fps & 8/x 3 – 6 fps & 12/x
4 – 8 fps & 16/x 5 – 12 fps & 20/x 6 – 14 fps & 24/x
7 – 16 fps & 28/x 8 – 18 fps & 32/x 9 – 20 fps & 36/x
10 – 24 fps & 40/x 11 – 26 fps & 44/x 12 – 28 fps & 48/x
13 – 30 fps & 52/x 14 – 32 fps & 56/x 15 – 36 fps & 60/x
16 – 38 fps & 64/x 17 – 40 fps & 68/x 18 – 42 fps & 72/x
19 – 44 fps & 76/x 20 – 48 fps & 80/x 21 – 50 fps & 84/x

The second number is degrees off line in 20 feet where x = the robot’s number of wheels.

B – Rotational speed is how fast the robot can move in a complete 360 degree circle, while sitting in place. This number will be measured in rotations per second (RPS). This number is determined by dividing the robot’s speed by its number of wheels (this one is simple, you don’t need a chart.) For example, a robot with 4 wheels and a speed of 2 will turn at 0.5RPS, or 180 degrees per second. A robot with 2 wheels and a speed of 10 will turn at 5RPS, or 1800 degrees per second (That equates to 300 RPM, thwack-bot anyone?)

C – Acceleration is how long it takes the robot to go from a stand still to its maximum linear or rotational speed. This number is measured in seconds and determined by inverting the scale (1-21) and dividing by 4. For example a speed of 1 gets you an embarrassing 5.25 second crawl to your top speed, while 15 speed takes you to your top speed in a 1.75 second sprint. This number is mainly important to thwacks and rammers.

3 – Traction: This stat will continue to be called torque due to tradition, but understand it does not mean torque in the traditional sense. Traction will govern traction , pushing power and the ability to turn your bot around.
A – Pushing power is a fairly simple stat. If your Traction is higher, you will win a shoving match. That’s it. Plain and simple. However there will be an additional provision for bots with spike type weapons. If you pin an opponent using a spike, you will be able to penetrate their armor 1 inch for every point your torque is higher than their armor, not to exceed 4 inches. Also, if you only have some of your wheels on the ground at a particular time, you will lose your torque depending on the % of wheels that are still on the ground. Here’s the formula:

Wheels on ground / wheels in total = % of wheels on ground X torque stat = new torque factor in this situation

Example - A 6 wheeled robot with a torque of 4 has his 2 front wheels lifted off the ground. What is his torque in this situation?

4/6 = .66 x 4 = 2.64 torque in this situation.

B – Traction decides how much the robot is affected by being hit by spinners, hit by rammers, and even affected by its own spinning weapons. As a general rule, as long as the robot has higher torque than a spinner has weapon or a rammer has speed, it will NOT be moved when hit. If the torque on the robot being hit is lower than these stats, it will be displaced 1 foot for every point of difference, minus 3 inches for each wheel the robot has over 2. For example, a 12 Weapon spinner hits a 2 wheeled robot with 7 torque. The spinner knocks the opponent 5 feet away. The same spinner hits an 8 wheeled robot with 7 torque, and the opponent is only knocked 3.5 feet away. For weapon recoils, the robot recoiling will be knocked away by how much its weapon exceeds its own torque, divided by two. The robot will also spin opposite the direction of its weapon rotation 180 degrees, minus 45 degrees for every pair of wheels over two. Regardless of the number of wheels a robot has, this spin will be no less than 45 degrees.

4 – Armor: This stat has been rather loosely translated in the past, and hopefully these rules will keep armor under control. This rule will cover passive armor, active armor, weapon armor, and knockout probability (self and opponent inflicted). For any armor to be given any bonuses at all, (minus FBS shells) the total amount of armor receiving bonuses must not exceed 1/3 of the total armor on the robot as decided by the moderators and/or competition director.

A – Passive armor is the main chassis of the robot, to include all wedges, plows, and plates that are a part of the chassis or frame, and will have the base armor stat. Passive upgraded armor includes wheel guards, plows, wedges, bars, spikes, weapon shafts and heads(thwacks) and plates that are solidly attached but obviously not part of the main chassis. As a default, all passive armor counts as the armor stat with no additional bonuses. HOWEVER, you can give plows, wedges, rams, etc. additional bonuses as long as you offset that bonus with a subtraction from all other areas. Here's an examples:

Example A - Bot (Armor 8) with a plow on front and wedge on back. You give your plow a +2 armor and your chassis, wheels, wedge a -2. SO therefore, your plow have an armor of 10 but everywhere else, your armor is a 6.


B – Active armor is any armor that is not solidly attached to the frame, or uses a special attachment for some sort of advantage. The armor bonuses rule that is used for passive armor also applies for active armor, as well. 

C – Weapon armor is the durability of parts of active weapons. For all active weapons, this will be the armor stat +2 OR the weapon stat itself, whichever is higher. The actual weapon component (hammer head, spinning disc, FBS claws NOT the shell itself, flipper arm) will also be given an additional 1 point of armor regardless of which stat is used.

D – Knockout probability is the likelihood that a weapon’s recoil or a direct hit on the armor will cause a total system failure and thus, a knockout.

a – Recoil knockout probability will be the robot’s weapon stat multiplied by 3, minus the armor stat. For example a robot with fifteen weapon power and two armor will have a massive 43% chance of knocking itself out. A robot with three weapon power and nine armor will actually have no chance at all of a self-destructive recoil.

b – Knockout probability will be the estimated % you and your opponent have for survival in that particular match. Here’s the formula:

Your armor stat / opponent's weapon stat = % + .2 = % of survival

So in this same case, a bot with 4 armor goes up against a bot with 12 weapon:

4/12 = .33 + .2 = .53 (53% chance of survival)

In another example, let's say you had a well armored bot of 8 going up against this spinner:

8/12 = .66 + .2 = .86 (86% chance of survival)

c – Breakthrough is the number of hits it takes in one area to break through or the number of hits required to break a piece of active armor off. This number is that particular area or piece of armor’s total stat (including bonuses) minus one for every point of weapon power over it. For example, a robot with ten weapon power hitting a robot with five armor should break through in one hit. The same robot hitting an opponent with ten armor will take approximately ten hits in the same spot to get completely through.

5 – Weapon: This stat in the past has been the vaguest, made even more vague by the wide range of weapon designs available. We hope to cover all common designs here. If you have a design for a weapon not listed here, the same policy applies as before. Just submit it to the moderators and/or competition director for approval and final decisions. All approved designs will be added to this rule set. Any robot using multiple active weapons will be reduced in weapon power based on two conditions. If the weapons are operated by the same actuator, on the same axel i.e. twin spinning discs, no deduction will occur. If the weapons are powered by the same motor but on separate axels i.e. a motor powering spinning bars on opposite sides of the robot, each weapon will lose one point. If the weapons are acting totally independent of one another i.e. dual hammers (diesector style) each weapon will lose two points of power. These deductions occur after all power bonuses are applied.

A – Passive weapons are any weapon that requires no weapon power to use. This includes but is not limited to rammers, static spikes, overhead thwacks, “dumb” thwacks, and any other static or non powered offensive device.

a – Rammers and robots using static spikes (provided they are on the ramming end of the robot) will hit with a theoretical weapon power equal to the midway point between their Speed and Torque, rounded down to the nearest whole number. If the ram starts from 20 feet away or more, and is successful, a 2 point bonus is given. Rammers have NO breakthrough factor, unless they have defined spikes or teeth. The theoretical weapon power applies to knockout probability. This rule also applies to robots with active weapons that can be used as ramming weapons, or that have secondary passive ramming weapons.

b – Overhead thwacks will have a similar system. The theoretical weapon power will be the midway point between the robot’s Speed and Torque, rounded down to the nearest whole number. Overhead thwacks will also be given one additional point for gravitational effect. As for actual weapon designs, sharp objects (picks, blades, axes) will have breakthrough factor. Blunt weapons (large hammers, bats, maces) will have no breakthrough, but get a 5% bonus in knockout probability.

c – “Dumb Thwacks” are floor spinning robots that do not use computer controls to move while rotating i.e. traditional thwacks. They will be treated the same way as the other two, except that the theoretical weapon power is the midway point rounded UP to the nearest whole number. These robots will also gain an additional point for hits made after they are at their max speed (see acceleration). As for damage by weapon type, follow the same guidelines as overhead thwack bots outlined in section “b”.

B – Spinners are any robot using a rotating mass to inflict damage. This includes but is not limited to vertical bludgeoning devices, friction driven rings, overhead bars and cages, shells, discs, flywheels, saws, chainsaws, spiked belts, drums, “egg beaters”, and any other rotating mass designed for inflicting damage. All spinners will be given a one point weapon power bonus for every 5 points spent on the weapon. These weapons will be treated as two types.

a – Electrical spinners are powered by electric motors and are the most common variety. Electrical spinners will have spin up times equal to their weapon power divided by two in seconds. During a direct hit, Electrical spinners will slow down by ¼ of their speed after each successive hit, in which the robot does not have time to spin back up. This does not apply to saw blades and chainsaws, in which the weapon power is 4 or less. As for damage, follow the guidelines outlined in the Armor section of this document.

b – I.C.E. spinners are those driven by internal combustion engines. This includes the piston and rotary engine varieties. I.C.E. spinners will have spin up times equal to their weapon power divided by two in seconds. During a direct hit, I.C.E. spinners will not slow down after their first hit, but will lose 1/5 of their speed after each successive hit. As before, this does not apply to saws or chainsaws with weapon power of 4 or less. Damage will follow the formula in the Armor section of this document.

c – Uncommon actuators for spinning weapons are pneumatic and hydraulic motors. I highly doubt anyone will use these but if so they will be treated as Electrical and I.C.E. respectively.

C – Lifting weapons are any weapon designed to forcefully pick an opponent up off of the floor. These include but are not limited to lifting arms, lifting spikes, flipping arms, actuated jaws, lifting or flipping wedges, clamp systems, forklifts, and any other weapon used to pick an opponent up. This is another vague design that everyone has tried to claim their own theories on in the past. Many people have argued that at low weapon power, they simply won’t work. For this set of rules we will acknowledge that no one builds a lifting arm that won’t lift an opponent in that weight class. All lifting and flipping weapons, given a value of 1 weapon power, will be able to lift an opponent to the full height of the weapon’s capability. Weapon power will decide how effectively that will be accomplished.

a – Lifters will be any weapon designed to merely lift the opponent for control (includes clamps) and can be controlled to move to and stay at any point on their lifting stroke. Lifters are at all times capable of lifting an opponent in the same weight class. Weapon power will decide how fast that can be done. Scale pending decision.

b – Flippers sacrifice control of the weapon to allow a high speed motion in one direction. Flippers will come back down shortly after lifting, and cannot be moved to anywhere but the final point in the stroke. Flippers are always capable of lifting the opponent at high speed, but the weapon power will determine the height of the flip. This height will be in feet and determined by the robot’s weapon power divided by two. At 1 a flipper will only move an opponent 6 inches higher than the top of the stroke, while at 10 weapon power the target will be tossed over 5 feet high. Also, this weapon power applies to a knockout probability upon landing.

D – Overhead striking weapons include but are not limited to hammers, axes, swords, impaled dead babies and any other weapon swung overhead to cause damage. They will follow the same weapon head guidelines as thwack bots, and will gain one point of bonus weapon power for gravity. There will be two varieties of this weapon.

a – Speed hammers are hammers designed to fire extremely fast. These will be decided as follows: Speed hammers will take 1 second to fire and return in basic form. For every 1 point of weapon power, 1/20th of a second will be removed from this time. For example, at 10 weapon power the hammer will fire and return twice per second. However, the hammer’s weapon power will be divided in half (rounded up, before the gravity bonus).

b – Power hammers are designed to do large amounts of damage in a single strike. They begin at 1 second to return and reset after firing and have ½ a second added to that time for every point of weapon power. However, for every 2 points of weapon power spent on them (does not include bonus points) they gain 1 point. At this rate, with 10 weapon power the hammer takes 6 seconds to reset, but hits with a force of 16 (10 power, plus 5 bonus, plus 1 gravity). This makes this weapon easily the most damaging in the game, but also the slowest to operate and of course, subject to the hit or miss characteristics of its type.

E – Piercing weapons are extremely powerful claws or spikes designed to use force to break through an opponent’s armor. These weapons will not receive a gravity bonus if acting from overhead.
a – Claws will always be slow moving; about 15 degrees per second. However, all claw type weapons will have maximum breakthrough (they always pierce through the armor they are used on). Weapon power will determine depth of penetration. This will simply be the weapon power in halves of inches plus one inch for every 5 points. Horizontal claws working on two sides of an opponent will pierce that deep on each side but will not get the additional inch per 5 points.

b – Pneumatic spikes are fired once, then take several seconds to retract and be fired again. These spikes will be treated exactly as claws in the damage they do, except that they get an inch of penetration per weapon point, and an additional inch for every 5 points.

c – Rotary piston spikes are rapid firing, and driven by cam/crank action from an electric motor or gas engine. Up to two spikes can be used from the same motor before incurring a multiple weapons deduction. These spikes will follow the normal rules of breakthrough and damage based on their power, and will hit at x times per second, where x is half of their weapon power.