Miner's Pal

**Miner's Pal** is a heavyweight Battlebot created by Legodude494 under the team name of Team Trevithick. Miner's Pal is an axe robot with a double headed twin axe as its main weapon mounted up the top of the robot. The front of the robot can also act as a ram as secondary weapon.

## Appearance

Miner's Pal is a near perfect cube with a large hazard warning striped front ram on the front. This ram is one of the two weapons employed by the robot, causing damage from speed and the weight of the ram. Behind it is the armoured body, with aluminium meshing covering the wheels so they can still be seen. Mounted on the roof of the robot is the main weapon, a large double bladed, double headed axe with a cradle. This axe can come down with a lot of force on another robot and break through the upper armour of it. The robot has a brown upper half and small black square on the lower half of the body sides which displays the team and robot name. The front has hazards stripes on it to make the robot feel industrial and fit the mining theme of the robot, along with the earthy brown and pickaxe weapon.

## Combat History

### Exhibition matches

While it has not yet participated in a tournament, it has appeared at an exhibition fight where it fought Snakeor. Miner's Pal started the engagement off strong, piercing the top armour of Snakeor easily. However, it made the mistake of hitting the rotating bar disc weapon of Snakeor, snapping off the two sharp front spikes of the axe.

However, it still had two nubs where the spikes didn't fall of completely, meaning it could still do some damage. Swinging the axe again, Miner's Pal continued to deal damage to the armour of Snakeor, despite Snakeor damaging the armour of Miner's Pal. Keeping Snakeor in front of it as much as it could, Miner's Pal continued to attack with what was left of the axe and use the frontal ram to further deal damage to Snakeor.

Eventually, the remains of the main axe head broke off, leaving a flat axe body as all that remained of the main weapon. Snakeor had also suffered damage to its own weapon by this point. The teeth of the disc had broken off, leaving the solid bar as the remains of the weapon. The robots manouvered around each other, making their way to a grassy area where fighting resumed. Miner's Pal was now reduced to the ram as its only remaining weapon, as the axe had lost its head and couldn't angle down enough to hit with the main body.

Snakeor had lost its two front steering wheels below the disc from the original attack from the pick, so its mobility was slow, allowing Miner's Pal to deal some ram damage so it. However, the remains of the bar disc, while not as potent as a fully working one, was still able to knock off most of the side and rear armour of Miner's Pal, exposing the wheels and internal components. Snakeor managed to knock off the front right wheel of Miner's Pal before both robots broke away again. A cease was called and after deliberation, Snakeor was determined as the winner.

## Trivia

* The front of the robot was originally just meant to weigh it down to counter the swing of the axe, but testing proved it potent as a back-up ramming device if the axe were to get destroyed.