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So It's been eating away at me for a while and I have to ask, being a ravenwing player... how the heck to bikes get deployed into a "hot" drop zone? Drop pods seem like the premier deployment method for dynamic entries but bikes seem faster/more agile. do thunderhawks drop them off a mile from the battle field and then they drive there full force? do they have their own version of drop pods?
They start up their bikes, the back hatch of the Thunderhawk opens and they just take off. SM bikes have amazing shocks.
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2014/03/27 23:48:42
Subject: Re:How do bikes deploy to a battle field?
yea I imagine that's how bikes would deploy on the ground (without the parachute) but then would drive towards the enemy. but what about those hitting a battle that's already in progress? do they still have to drive there? it seems a lot less expedient then drop podding in, but then more mobile and quick
Bikes, like most forces, are deployed prior to the battle. Space Marine drop pods (and other things) are kind of the minority, in that they are deployed into battle from outside the active warzone. Most things (bikes, tanks, infantry, etc) in most Imperial armies (and, I think, most armies other than Daemons and Dark Eldar) are normally deployed into a warzone prior to any active engagement with the enemy. They might be transferred by bulk freighters, mass conveyors, drop ships, orbital landers, or whatever, but it's going to be via 'big thing which got there before the battle and doesn't show up in the fight".
Fast-moving forces like bikes, can respond more fluidly than infantry (as they have a better movement rate), but don't get the option of a surgical insertion like drop pods or teleportation.
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