Bludgeoners

Bludgeoners were a type of weapon used in Robot Wars. Manic Mutant was the first robot to use a bludgeoner, although the name of the weapon was coined by the Invertabrat team. The most notable bludgeoner wielding robot is Extreme 1 Antweight Champion Combat Ant.

Definition
A bludgeoner or face spinner is a rotating disc mounted on a vertical angle, with the blades spinning sideways in a similar fashion to Drills.

Advantages and Disadvantages
Advantages
 * Bludgeoners are fairly simple to construct in comparison to other weapons, simply consisting of a small blade powered by a motor.
 * Bludgeoners are effective in Antweight competitions, having the capacity to throw competitor robots high into the air and even throw them out of the Arena. Combat Ant performed this feat against part of the Clusterbot Legion in Extreme 1.

Disadvantages
 * Due to the blades spinning sideways, bludgeoners have limited attack range, and can usually only strike small parts of other robots.
 * In the Heavyweight division, bludgeoners often struggle to cause damage to opponents. This was best shown in the first series of Dutch Robot Wars, when El-Mower was unable to damage Flextreme, despite winning the judges decision after landing numerous attacks with it's weapon.

List of Robots with Bludgeoners
Robots are listed alphabetically. Robots that are not heavyweight are listed with a green background.