Grobots - Sides

Here are most of the sides that have ever been written. See the tournament results to find the best ones. There's also a page with analysis of some sides.

Send us your sides, and we'll add them to this page. They don't have to be good sides - there are so few sides so far that it isn't hard to write an interesting one. (See Warren's and Devon's How to Write the Next Champion articles for advice.)

There are cooperating versions of the Top Nine from a while ago. These aren't intended as serious sides, but as a demonstration of the value of not always fighting.

Sides

Side	Author	Mod. Date	Comments
Mice	Szeety	September 14 2016	Unarmed one-type gatherer with active dodging thrives under fire.
ISI	fmb	June 1 2013	Forcefield gathering and active dodging.
Faithless	fmb	February 18 2013
Focus	Daan	August 13 2012
nom nom	elel	August 13 2012
Balun	elel	August 13 2012	Another long-range (half-)giant.
RK Bertha	Warren	August 13 2012	Big Bertha with Revenge Killer 5.
Revenge Killer 5	Warren	August 12 2012	Aggressive gatherer, designed to kill Commune's Revenge. Now with active dodging.
Big Bertha 2	Warren	August 12 2012	A giant seed with giant grenades prepares the way for Active 9.
Artillery Support 5	Devon	August 7 2012	Defenseless spotters call in fire from other cells.
Blaster Bertha	Warren	August 6 2012	A giant seed with giant blasters prepares the way for Active 9.
Active 9	Warren	August 6 2012	Dodges shots.
Baronator 1.2	Hector	August 2012	Predators with defensive missiles.
The Borg Cube	Max	July 30 2010	Stays in formation.
Bloopers	Gigatron	April 2010	Gatherers claim territory.
Unproductive 3	Devon	Jan 3 2010	A safer way to hide in corners, plus armed gatherers.
Single Bot 1.1	David Shellard	Nov 16 2009	Intended as a test side, but it doesn't score too badly.
ARG 1.1	David Shellard	Nov 16 2009	A single gatherer, plus fighters. Linear growth!
Borg	Borg	Nov 4 2009	Complex forcefield forager with good fighters.
Carrier has arrived 2	Midnight	Oct 23 2009	Syphon-powered centralized group.
The Lunacy	David/Warren	Oct 20 2009	Massive Beast 2 plus Revenge Killer 4.
The Horde	David and Midnight	Oct 17 2009	Massive Beast 2 plus Nanomachines.
Hasher	Gigatron	Aug 31 2009
Nanomachines β1	Midnight	Aug 26 2009	Swarms of little cells.
Danmaku	Midnight	Aug 26 2009	It lives up to its name.
Massive Beast	David Shellard	Aug 13 2009	It's like a more sophisticated Teledont.
Swarm	Raszul	June 28 2009
Adaptive 4c	Matt Burkholder	Jan 4 2009	Complex colony with forcefields.
Tomatoes	Zacechawa	August 18 2008	Gatherers and swarming fighters. Solar cells hide in corners.
Death Borgs	Zacechawa	July 31 2008	Eats and builds missiles.
Symphony	Zacechawa	July 31 2008	Syphon economy, and missiles.
Wild Men 2	Matt Burkholder	December 24 2007	Gatherers, fighters, and siegebreakers.
Business Cycle 8	Matt Burkholder	December 24 2007	Forcefields for food, and pretty formations.
Weird Men D	Matt Burkholder	December 24 2007	Variation on Wise Men, with grenades and enemy-syphons. Now shares food.
Segregated Eaters 3	Matt Burkholder	October 2007	Cells share food by eating in different areas. Very agressive.
Cyclops	Warren	September 22 2007	Formation fighters, with the first effective decoys.
T2	mcmadhatter	September 10 2007
StatSpawn	mcmadhatter	September 4 2007	A gatherer (based on the tutorial) plus armament.
Solar->Gatherer>Killer	Ids Braam	July 4 2007	Gatherers with stationary defenders.
mini-eaters	Ids Braam	July 4 2007	Eaters and missiles.
Mangeurs	Szeety	November 18 2006	Solar cells which also gather (and share) food.
Ring of Fire 4	Devon	October 21 2006	Defenders form a circle (or arc) around autotrophs.
Shield + Cowards 2f	Alexander	July 2006	Simplified version of Bomberz, without missiles.
Bomberz	Alexander	July 2006	Corner-dweller with missiles and fighters.
Walled City 2	Warren	June 2006	Circular mobile colony.
Forest Fighters	Alexander	June 16 2006	Short-range fighter/gatherer.
Dark Forest 0.2	Alexander	June 16 2006	Colony with syphons.
Flaming Forest	Alexander	June 16 2006	A record: nine types.
Move Zig! (nc)	ziggystar	June 16 2006	Move Zig! 3 without corner-hiding.
Move Zig! 3	ziggystar	June 16 2006	Corner-hider with fighters.
Flower 2	Tilendor	April 2006	Very organized colony. Pretty.
Untouchable 4	Warren	March 31 2006	Force-fields food and enemies.
Commune Plus 2	Devon/Warren	March 31 2006	Commune plus autotrophs.
Productive Plus 5	DvF/Devon	March 22 2006	A smaller Productive, now with fighters.
MicroAlgae	Tilendor	March 2006	Small algae that run from injury using forcefields.
Nova	Tilendor and Ryan	March 2006	Buggy colony.
My Algae	Anthony Kozar	March 2006	Unarmored, so the colony self-destructs when one cell dies.
Diagonal Explorer	Marcos Coelho Marín	March 2006	Gatherers woth an unusual movement pattern and (buggy) fighters.
Commune 10	Devon	November 19 2005	Syphons energy from gatherers to other types. Good defense.
Wise Men 2 (without José)	Matt Burkholder	November 14 2005	Wise Men is improved by removing its decoys.
Shepherds	Devon	November 12 2005	Forcefields move the sheep to safety.
Noffee 4	Warren/Devon	November 12 2005	Blasters without friendly fire. No longer overloads tiny gatherers.
Grudge 4	Devon	February 11 2005?	Like Gunner, but only shoots at sides it considers hostile.
Wise Men 3	Matt Burkholder	October 6 2004	Predator. Version 2 is better.
Intoxicated 3h	Daniel von Fange	September 11 2004	Agressive. Dodges. Uses both blaster and grenades.
Virtue	Devon	August 13 2004	Blasters and missiles fed by syphons. Resembles Noffee.
Simple-1	James Austin	August 12 2004	Simple gatherers.
Ocean Front	Matt Burkholder	April 21 2004	Cells form a grid. Uses long-range grenades to distract enemies.
Revenge Garden	Devon	January 10 2004	Old (January 2003) armed variant of Garden.
Frog Celestial 2	Devon	January 10 2004	Pack predator. Now with food hashing.
Gunner 4	Warren	January 5 2004	Autotroph with grenades. Now ignores decoys.
Eventually... 14	Devon	January 4 2004	Autotroph with grenades and missiles.
Bacteria 4	Devon	January 4 2004	A skittish gatherer inspired by Microb. Now armed.
Excommunicate	Devon	December 21 2003	Commune without a colony. Not very good (yet).
Teledont 8	Matt Burkholder	August 28 2003	Gatherer with long-range blaster.
Feudal 3	Devon	July 21 2002	Commune derivative without Sustenance.
Sucker 2f	Devon	July 21 2003	A primitive long-range syphon (ab)user.
Ants 4f	Warren	July 21 2003	Syphons energy from workers to queens. Has missile defense. Makes multiple colonies.
Far Garden	Devon	July 21 2003	Syphons energy from passive crop cells.
Garden 2f	Devon	July 21 2003	Syphons energy from passive crop cells.
Not Quite Harmless 3	Warren	July 6 2003	Not Quite Wise with chaos-causing decoys.
Wiser 2	Warren	June 3 2003	Another variation of Not Quite Mad.
Missile Bacteria 2	Devon	May 22 2003	Bacteria, plus small defensive missiles.
Poison Ivy 7	Warren	May 21 2003	A four-type plant, with ineffective antimissile force fields.
Vaccine 3	Devon	May 17 2003	Bacteria with a blaster. Kills unarmed sides (like Bacteria, hence the name).
Algae 2	Devon	March 14 2003	Very simple autotroph.
Intoxicated Small	Daniel von Fange	January 4 2003	Small (1220) version of Intoxicated 3g.
Active Large	Warren	January 3 2003	Large (2380) version of Active.
Not Quite Mad	Warren	December 20 2002	Not Quite Wise, with missiles.
Four Winds 2	Warren	December 16 2002	Hides in all four corners.
Productive 5f	Daniel von Fange	December 16 2002	Autotroph that hides in corners, with two kinds of missiles. Also called Bombs and Factories or Tactical's Productive.
Not Quite Wise	Warren	November 30 2002	Theotroph (based on Fool) that's good at running away.
Circle the Wagons	Matt Burkholder	November 27 2002	Shielded decoys circle around grenade users.
Intoxicated 3	Daniel von Fange	November 21 2002	Agressive. Dodges. Uses both blaster and grenades.
Megadont fixed	Matt Burkholder	November 20 2002	Megadont 2, modified to work slightly under modern rules.
World Toad 3	Devon	November 17 2002	Big gatherer which chases shots.
Microb 2	Matt Burkholder	October 30 2002	Five types of tiny cells.
Fighters 5	Devon	October 26 2002	Autotroph with swarming defenders.
Homesick 3	Warren	October 24 2002	Former champion, recently repaired.
Fool	Warren	July 5 2002	A speedy theotroph. Good at getting out of trouble. It has some cleverness to avoid everyone trying to eat the same food.
Cycle 3	Devon	May 1 2002	Autotroph. Runs in circles (like Lunatic) when attacked.
Rat without shields 2	Warren	April 14 2002	Former champion, now obsolete.

Pointless, Ineffective, or Broken Sides

Some of these were good once, but have been crippled by rule changes.

Side	Author	Mod. Date	Comments
Smarter Eater	Analog Kid	August 13 2004	Buggy gatherers.
Sunflower 3	Matt Burkholder	April 3 2004	The first friendly-syphon user. Feeds energy to one central constructor. Pretty.
Shielded Missile	Warren	July 18 2003	An incomplete type that demonstrates that shielded missiles don't really work.
Gnats 9	Matt Burkholder	January 23(?) 2003	Short-range syphon-and-blaster user. Swarms.
Soviet	Devon	January 3 2003	Commune 3 with Active's missiles.
People's Republic	Devon	January 3 2003	Commune 3 with Eventually's missiles.
Iron Bubble	Devon	November 13 2002	Very simple armored giant autotroph.
Missile-Lunatic 4	Warren	October 28 2002	Like Lunatic with (bad) missiles. Now conserves energy to grow faster.
Snarfosaur	Matt Burkholder	May 16 2002	Tries to move itself (and food) around with a force field.
FlyswEater	Warren	May 16 2002	Very buggy attempt at gathering food with force fields.
Life and Death 4	Warren	May 12 2002	Shielded gatherers and short-range syphon/blaster user that follows shots. Can sometimes eat while fighting.
Megadont 2	Matt Burkholder	April 22 2002	Used range-40 grenades to great effect. Also, it's really big. Can't move when pregnant now.
Predator 2	Devon	April 18 2002	Old ineffective minigrenade user. Tends to starve.
Rat 3	Warren	April 14 2002	Shielded gatherer. Can survive a lot, and sometimes kills enemies by friendly fire.
NeoRabbit	Devon	April 10 2002	A gatherer that runs away when attacked.
Flyswatter 2	Warren	April 10 2002	Gunner plus force-fields.
Turret 2	Devon	April 10 2002	Sits still and shoots. Friendly-fire problem.
Radioactive 2	Devon	April 9 2002	Three silly types.
Lunatic 2	Devon	April 9 2002	The first side ever, and the first demonstration of passive dodging.
Rabbit	Devon	Feb 6 - March 27 2002	Simple theotroph. Broken long ago by movement and sensor changes.

Grobots by Devon Schudy and Warren Schudy