A couple pages ago somebody said that hoverbikes en masse are quite good. In my current game my fleet consists out of a valkyrie, a wolfhound, a stormdog, 6 hovercars and about a dozend high end hoverbikes using the best engine, a light targeting system and a rendor or a lineage cannon. Now my hoverbike count peaked at fifteen but during the last attack I lost two bikes and several just made it... I'm wondering if you can really get through the dogfights using clouds of hoverbikes as at the beginning of the week I have to choose between five or six bikes plus equipment or a hawk air warrior. So far the bikes have proven that they are able to cream enemy UFOs quite efficiently, but... well, they're so fragile.. I can't begin to imagine the losses if I had to battle a mothership or a battleship.
Apart from that: What settings do you suggest for hoverbikes?
For all my craft I currently use the cautious mode (not the extreme one but the 2nd) and fly on the 2nd altitude setting so that my craft shoot up in the sky instead of shooting down on the city. I'm not sure whether hoverbikes are easier to hit (for UFOs) if they're right on top of them or if they keep their distance.
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