Manglerfish | Carbonemys |
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Speed: 6 | Speed: 4 |
Traction: 5 | Traction: 2 |
Torque: 2 | Torque: 1 |
Weapon: 10 (+3 saw arm) | Weapon: 15 |
Armour: 7 | Armour: 9 (+1 plow) |
Four-pronged plow please.
A fifteen-power hammer? With a relatively tall, narrow body and a heavy head? That thing is gonna be Chomp levels of unstable if not even worse. It’s going to flip itself over nearly every single time it fires that weapon, especially if it’s turning.
I need to come out and start circling it, staying out of hammer range and trying to frustrate Alex. I know he’s not dumb enough to just swing at thin air, so after a bit of that, zoom through his hammer’s threat area moving at an angle so that he has to keep turning to keep it pointed at me. I’m taking a risk, but it’ll make it harder for him to aim, and if he misses, again he’s probably going to either pop himself high in the air or outright flip himself onto his side.
If he flips himself, immediately rush in to get to his underside and bring my arm forward. Push him into the wall (preferably the lobotomizers but whatever’s closest), and try to saw into his treads. I’m not sure how well it’ll work, but if I can jam or break a tread he’s screwed. He claims he can drive on the road wheels. I do NOT buy this for the simple reason that the road wheels don’t actually stick out past the bottom of those side guards. Taking out one side of his drive should make it much, MUCH easier to attack from angles the hammer can’t reach. Try to repeat and get the other side.
If he’s turtling against the wall or otherwise I’m not getting any openings, I have a plan B: bring the arm forward and charge straight into him, jamming it into the slot down the center of his shell. I want to get my saw guard as close as possible to the fulcrum of his hammer as possible, so that it can’t complete a full stroke and can’t hit any part of me with the force-concentrating head. If my saw cover is narrow enough to let me reach the armor in there then saw into it, otherwise just use the arm as a clamp and force him back into the arena hazards. His tracks are exposed at the back, a bonesaw can sever them.
Tl;dr either bait him into flipping himself or prop the turtle’s mouth open, go for broke.