RE: 25mm Grav Bikes and Rules

At 09:57 PM 18/11/98 -0500, Thomas Barclay  wrote:

>Sure. Just that the minis I have look like a centerline SAW would be 
>reasonable.	

and

>I can see that makes sense. I think you probably have two classes of 
>bike. An armed and unarmed. In either case, they both take damage 
>from any weapon in the game... which helps a bit in maintaining 
>balance.  

I have some of the OU minis that look like they have a centerline weapon
as
well but if they all have a SAW it would have an unbalancing effect on
the
game, it gets worse if you give them a heavy weapon.  Another post
containing a discussion with Brian sent explains this point better. 

>> >From an OU organisation and mission point of veiw, I see these
squads
>> having about four or five members, with standard ACR's with GL )to
make up
>> for the fact that they don't have heavier weapons) and being used to
setup
>> ambushs where they dismount, seek some cover, open up with their
weapons
>> and IAVR's when something juicy comes along then quickly pulling
back,
>> mounting up again and ziping off to the next ambush site.
>
>What about Mounted Recce? They would be awesome for that. Or for 
>couriers. There are a lot of roles for these bikes. 

Both valid but a courier wouldn't be a really useful role on a SG2
battlefield.  Unless it was a special senario game of course.

Wayne.