Assault Bots (slug bot-machines) is mech assault for armored bots in motion — not stickman brawls, not slow strategy maps. Offensive runs hinge on weapon choice and timing: punch a lane or get shredded mid-push. Core mech shelf because it matches the flagship fantasy of metal frames and loud weapons.
Mechangelion is portrait one-on-one; Assault Bots is assault-run angles, reloads, and enemy bot silhouettes. Pairs with Iron Legion and Armored Robot.
Tip: warm up learning which bots punish greedy peeks. Tip two: if pace feels wide, Mechangelion for tighter duels, then come back.
Assault is a lane, not a mash
Assault Bots — the catalog slug is bot-machines — puts armored machines in motion. You are not managing a stick army and you are not waiting on a slow strategy clock. An offensive run depends on the weapon you brought and the timing of the push. A greedy peek into a bot that was built to shred that angle ends the run in the middle of the lane. The first job is to learn which silhouettes punish that greed. Do it on purpose, in a warm-up life, instead of discovering it inside a push you cared about.
Mechangelion is the opposite camera: portrait, one-on-one, jab timing. Assault Bots asks whether you can cross space in a heavy body and still have a shot left. Reloads and approach angles are the language. If you play it like a fighting game and hug the enemy with no plan for the reply, the frame will feel cheap. It is wider than a ring. Give it the width.
Pair it, do not stack five assaults
Iron Legion is the patient, heavier cousin: more armor fantasy, less arcade sprint. Armored Robot adds loadout menus and shooter arenas. Play one assault session, then one of those, then stop. Three “move forward in metal” games in a row blur together and you will blame the third for the fatigue of the first.
If the pace feels too wide, that is a real preference, not a failure. Take a tighter duel on Mechangelion and come back when you want the lane again. Controls stay ordinary browser rules: click the frame, use on-screen buttons if the build shows them, fullscreen on a desktop when the bots are small. The browser guide is the general method. This page is only the assault run.
Skip it if you wanted arcs. Shells live on the tank shelf. Skip it if you wanted to merge units or defend a castle. Those are longer brains. Stay for a loud push that ends before a campaign would have finished its tutorial.
The silhouette that ended the push
When an Assault Bots push dies, name the silhouette that ended it before you blame the weapon. The weapon matters, and it is the second sentence. The first sentence is the bot you walked into. If you cannot picture it, you do not have a loadout problem yet. You have a recognition problem. Spend the next run identifying that shape and giving it room. A new gun in the same corridor is a louder version of the same donation.
Iron Legion asks for a longer watch and a heavier body. Move there if the arcade sprint is why you keep donating. Armored Robot if you truly want a shooter loadout after you can name the silhouette. Naming comes first. The mech shelf is the rest of the family. Tanks if the lane made you want a shell instead of a chassis.
One named silhouette, one push that respects it, done. A second push that “tests a theory” you cannot say out loud is the first push again.
October 15, 2026 — lane greed table
| Silhouette lesson | Next push |
|---|---|
| Warm-up life identified a punisher | Avoid that angle on purpose |
| No note from warm-up | Do not spend a “real” push yet |
| Map feels too wide | Return to Mechangelion portrait |
