I like cars better than bikes. Buy up and save the elerium for when lineage and multisystems become available for your Hawks.
Bikes are a fine supplemental unit but once fast attack ships show up, one lucky hit is death for a bike. I don't like losing any vehicles in my games. Week 1 - Cars and valkyrie with lasers. Week 2 - Cars go full evasive with prophet missile systems (janitors seem better but prophets give more range which ='s more survivability) and I've usually raided enough for at least one Air Warrior which gets the multisystem and autocannons (buy/sell bikes for ammo). End of Week 2, Cars usually get upgraded to the weaker of the two single-firing missile systems. All they do is pop up, fire from really far away, and then hide. Once alien missile systems come online it's not worth wasting money on replacing smaller craft. Hawks usually do just fine with the extra missile barrage against harder targets. Once lineage becomes available, everybody gets an upgrade to that until medium disruptors and new X-Com craft.
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