Marine bikes question.

[Kwodd]

Never played marines before and had what may be a simple question. Building an iron hands army and wanted to stick my chapter master in a bike squad. Question is when I take the full bike squad and add the attack bike I have a 9 man squad making them eligible troops. If I break them into two tactical squads pre game do they remain troops even though the number drops below 6? And is this possible even with my troops slots full? Could I do this with all 6 troop choices essentially making 12 scoring units? Thanks ahead of time, I'm a Nid at heart but can't deny the iron hands fluff.

[Moontyranid]

the bikes excluding the captain needs to be a group of 5 to be troop

[WestRider]

Because it happens immediately before Deployment, after the Army List is locked in, Combat Squadding doesn't change their FOC position at all. They still take up one Troops Slot, regardless of whether or not you split them.

[Moontyranid]

Nov 25, 2013 18:05:41 GMT WestRider said:

Because it happens immediately before Deployment, after the Army List is locked in, Combat Squadding doesn't change their FOC position at all. They still take up one Troops Slot, regardless of whether or not you split them.

its true the unit of bikes count as 1 troop for the foc.

BUT after Combat Squadding they do count as 2 scoring units.

but you are only aloud to CombatSquad units of 10 there for bike units can`t be a Combat Squad.

because the max of bikes in a single unit is 9.


in short


you cant get 12 scoring bike squads by making them combat squads.

[WestRider]

Re-read the last paragraph of the Combat Squad Rules on Pg.76 of the SM Dex. It explains exactly how Combat Squads work for Bike Squads. Essentially, the Attack Bike counts as two dudes for that purpose only.

[Moontyranid]

Nov 26, 2013 18:02:07 GMT WestRider said:

Re-read the last paragraph of the Combat Squad Rules on Pg.76 of the SM Dex. It explains exactly how Combat Squads work for Bike Squads. Essentially, the Attack Bike counts as two dudes for that purpose only.

looks like your right

[seethe]

the bikes can be split into groups of 3 for combats squads. so you would have 3x bikers and 2xbikers+Atkbiker etc.

[WestRider]

3 man Biker Combat Squads are only for Dark Angels. For Vanilla Marines and BA, they work as I described above.

[seethe]

i stand corrected