Hunter Johnson — Robo Rally Ice Rules
Copyright by Hunter Johnson, all rights reserved.
Copyright by Hunter Johnson, all rights reserved.
There are two unofficial boards available online
that feature Ice. The Ice
Rink includes rules for inertia. The
Cold Room features a much nicer graphic, but the "spin chart" is
not yet available. It will probably be very similar to The Ice
Rink's. Neither of them are really suitable to lunch-time play, since
tracking and dealing with inertia is tedious. But I like the art on
The Cold Room enough that I wrote my own rules for Ice. If you've got
a lot of time and the inclination, try out the inertia stuff, but if
you don't:
Robots may move cautiously on Ice without change. Rotate Left and Rotate Right function normally. A Move 1 will function normally except that another robot cannot be pushed.
Faster movement will be affected by the reduced friction on Ice. A robot executing a U-Turn on Ice will spin completely around, so that his facing does not change.
A Move 2 through an adjacent robot will cause both robots to slide until they leave the ice, hit a wall, or hit another robot. A Move 2 onto a square occupied by another robot will cause that robot only to slide as above. A Move 2 into two robots will not push them at all. A Move 2 with no other robots within the front two squares will slide as above.
A Move 3 has the same effects as a Move 2, depending on whether another robot(s) is moved through or landed on. It cannot push 3 robots. A Move 4 (via Fourth Gear) cannot push 4 robots.
In addition to the above effects, a robot beginning a turn on Ice receives one fewer card than normal, unless that would require a register to be locked.