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So, with the new models I got kinda into these guys. I haven't not used at least 1 since the new models were released. The most I've used was 5.

Ghulam FO
Ghulam FO
Ghulam FO
Ghulam Doctor
Ghulam Panzerfaust
Hassassin Barid Hacker
Sekban Heavy Rocket Launcher
Hassassin Muyib Heavy Rocket Launcher
Hassassin Muyib Spitfire
Al Hawwa Sniper

Kum Chain Rifle
Kum Chain Rifle
Kum Rifle/Light Shotgun
Kum Light Shotgun
Kasym Beg (Lt)
Naffatun Heavy Flamethrower
Naffatun Heavy Flamethrower

The list was super, super fun. The reason I had Kasym as the Lt was for the extra Regular order in the biker group. That gave me 3 Regular orders if I wanted to cancel some Extremely Impetuous orders, or some extra orders to utilize on the bikers to exploit targets of opportunity. it worked super well, I don't think I actually ever cancelled an EI order. I just needed to be careful with which bikers activated first to lay down smoke to cover the others. A few went down in flames, but the Rifle/Light Shotgun guy absolutely murdered stuff. His kill count by the end included a Ninja and a HMG Wu Ming.

The scenario we played was Supremacy, so I made sure to have a good amount of specialists. It was a pretty brutal victory, I think I won 7-0. The stuff I expected to do the killing ended up doing nothing (Kasym, HRLs, Spitfire) while the bikers zoomed around and the specialists got to work taking consoles. Though the Barid had an awesome run as well, running the length of the table to take a console, killing several Zanshis on the way, including a double critical with his pistol inside 8" (losing the LSG to the marker is a felt loss in N3).

Building off that, and the fact that I now have the twins, I'm trying to come up with a 7 biker list.

Now that I had the twins available, I ran a 7 biker list.

Kasym (Lt)
Zamira
Zuleyka
Kum Chain
Kum Chain
Kum Light Shotgun
Kum Rifle/Light Shotgun
Naffatun LFT
Naffatun LFT

Ghulam FO
Ghulam FO
Ghulam Doctor
Nasmat
Ghulam Panzerfaust
Al Hawwa Sniper
Hassassin Muyib Spitfire
Hassassin Muyib HRL
Ghazi Muttawi'ah Chain

Went up against vanilla Aleph. Moving from 5 to 7 bikers increased saturation, but I think there might be too many there for you to really play with the order pool of 3. Like before, my main groups order pool seemed heavy, as most of them are used as nasty ARO peices while the bikes do the work, and the classifieds I had weren't too difficult (though 1 I stil failed because my Hacker nosedived off a building). I'm again contemplating putting the Al Hawwa Sniper in the biker group for an extra Regular order in that pool. There were a few situations where just one more order would have put Zamira or Zuleyka into a great position to kill things.

Lost 3-2, Annihilation, mostly because I was just rolling horrendously at the end. All I needed to draw was to kill an Asura (heh, all I needed), and I missed with 2 Panzerfaust and 4 HRL shots in a row.

Here's a question: How much terrain do you usually play with? Seems like it might be a problem for a very bike heavy list.

We generally run about 6 large buildings, maybe one or two smaller, and some scatter on a 4x4 table. The only time I've ever had terrain be an issue was on this board:



The 7 biker list was run on that board, but we removed about 4 of the large buildings and spread the rest out nicely. That board just has too much terrain on it. As it was in that shot, a single biker got stuck (you can see him, about halfway up the table, trying to squeeze between two buildings). After removing 4 buildings, there was still plenty of terrain, but bikers could actually move about.