While robot building is cool, I feel this game needs an extra something (like ranged combat) to make players want to disengage, otherwise it feels that any robot without nimble legs will just keep moving forward until they reach the opponent and then keep rolling dice until the game is finished.

Really cool concept, makes me want to design multi-parts robot miniatures to play this! 

Movement can't be done diagonally but can attacks? Does each grid have 4 adjacent spaces or 8?