I dont like giving hoverbikes lineage plasma cannons, too expensive equipement for too fragile a ship. I was shocked though when i found out that the big huge lineage cannon actually fits on a titch hoverbike, more useful once you have explorers as then you use alien diruptor weapons instead of plasma tech so you can equip hoverbikes with the cannons then.
You should watch out for alien bombers though, they are evil on hoverbikes as they fire the dreaded multibomb, can easily kill a few hoverbikes on its own, although it sucks more when it uses the multibomb to down your hawk, for bombers i use hovercars, they combine firepower with constitution, can dodge more easily then hawk air warriors, and they are much more cheaper.
Smaller UFO's can be dealt with hoverbikes, troop-transports gets hovercars and air warriors while hoverbikes deal with escorts, and the mothership gets the whole armada on it, escort ships are laughable without anything escorting them.
Once you get shield tech though, then hovercars really shine, just send out fleets of em with shields and watch the UFO's hit the floor hard, and get your best ship fully equipped with shields and it can take a lot of hits, one manual controlled retaliator equipped with med disruptor beams and full shields (well, one matrix missile evasion) managed to wipe out 3/4 of the UFO's in the alien dimension, including a pesky mothership, (got to watch out for statis missiles though, in the alien dimension the escort ships get my full attention).
Also... one last thing.... a stormdog....really????
I found the only good thing a stormdog does is help the UFO destroy the road outside the cultists temples, stop whatever nasty deeds there up to.
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