RE: 25mm Grav Bikes and Rules

At 04:10 PM 19/11/98 +1000, Owen wrote:

>SNIPPITY SNIP
>
>>roll all the dice when they fired as a squad.  (eg.  9 man Regular OU
squad
>>mounted on gravbikes with SAW's.  2 guys fire their ACR giving a D4, 7
guys
>>fire their bike mounted SAWs giving 7 D8s plus an additional D8 for
>>quality.  This is alot of fire power no matter how you look at it and
if
>>they where rotary type SAW's with D10 fire power I think even power
armour
>>would melt before this hail of fire.)   

SNIP

>If you are looking to play Mounted Infantry, then don't arm the MCs. I
think
>too many people make too much of the: Size 1 Vehicle therefore it MUST
have
>the free SAW as described in the SG Rules. You've done some fine rules
>suggestions on the morale, mounting/dismounting etc. My suggestion is
to
>keep things simple and use you MCs as unarmed vehicles. After all they
will
>be used totally differently to teh Grav Bikes. 

oops, I've done it again and missread a post and hence missed its whole
point.
I now understand what you meant and see that we are really in agreement.
 I
think I should rename the rules to "Using Mounted Infantry in StarGrunt
II".

As for the size 1 vehicle getting a free SAW comment I agree and always
intended the mounted infantry to have unarmed vehicles.

Wayne.