Thane Morgan wrote:
>
> >
> > I tried using them a few times. They tended to die in
> > droves, and were too pathetic to assault anything, and too few and
> > ineffectual to hold an objective properly. I switched to jetbikes and
> > aspects after a while, since jetbikes are the real fodder unit in the
> > Eldar army. Horrible at everything, but dirt cheap. My bikers
> > consistently died horribly while doing nothing more than holding up
> > enemy detachments or taking fire from stuff they charged to distract
> > them. Only problem is, you can't hold an objective with bikes alone
> > unless there's clear terrain nearby, since you couldn't hover above
> > rough terrain. Aspects held my forest and building objectives.
>
> The bikes were allowed to enter forests and such, as they were clasified
> as bikes.
Jetbikes still aren't allowed to, though - forests are
difficult terrain for bike/calvary units, and skimmers cannot end
their movement in difficult terrain (as of TL). This of course
further weakened the Eldar jetbike hordes, which suddenly found
themselves getting shot down in close combat and unable to contest
those forest objectives once TL was published. I think, in the
end, the wind rider host was fairly priced.
Scott Shupe
shupes_at_... shupes@...
http://www.rpi.edu/~shupes
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