Editing Bike Squad (section)

==Space Marines==
[[File:SpaceMarineBikeSquad.png|200px|thumb|right|Bike Squad]]
Bike Squads are fast attack [[Space Marine]] squads utilizing bikes for fast deadly tactics. The bikes themselves are armed with [[bolter| Twin Linked Bolters]] and the riders can carry the occasional special weapon, mostly [[meltagun]]s. Bike Squads serve as either a scout force used to quickly gauge the enemy force or as vanguard to swiftly attack enemy formations and allow the infantry squads to mop up the survivors. They are often paired with [[Land Speeder]]s for these tasks. A distinct variation exists called the Attack Bike, which incorporates a sidecar to cart around a heavy weapons guy armed with either a [[Heavy Bolter|heavy bolter]] or a [[Multi-melta|multi-melta.]] These can be fielded as squadrons of three, or embedded into the usual bike squads. A Bike is also an option for all your generic HQs, offering a decent compromise between speed, survivability and price. [[Derp|The book also warns you that you can't ride it while wearing terminator armour]].

Scouts also like to ride bikes to help with their scouting. While their older Marine brothers are geared for assault, Scout bikes are more geared for the fighting retreat and harassing the enemy with clustermines and other goodies. They're also used as a way to swiftly deliver a locator beacon where you need it.

Bike Squads often vary depending on the [[Space Marine Chapter]] they belong to. The [[White Scars]] use Bike Squads, echoing [[Jaghatai Khan]]'s use of mounted cavalry during his conquest of [[Chogoris]]. The [[Dark Angels]] have devoted their entire Second Company into utilizing Bike Squads and Land Speeders as the [[Ravenwing]], echoing the mounted knights of the Order on ancient [[Caliban]] who hunt <s>the [[Fallen Angels]]</s> TRAITORS FROM THE NINE LEGIONS AND SUBSEQUENT RENEGADE CHAPTERS, NONE OF WHICH INCLUDE THE SONS OF [[Lion El'Jonson|LION EL'JONSON]]. The [[Space Wolves]] Bike Squads are known as [[Swiftclaw]]s, who are operated by [[Blood Claw]]s (the Chapter's equivalent of [[Assault Squad|Assault Marines]]) and serve as a vanguard force. Their numbers are few, as the Space Wolves consider Bike Squads an overly headstrong tactic (though riding in on a [[Fenris|Fenrisian]] wolf is okay).

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image:SpaceMarineAttackBike.png|<center>Attack Bike</center>
image:ScoutBikeSquad.png|<center>Scout Bikes</center>
image:WhiteScarsBikeSquad.png|<center><strike>CHP</strike> White Scars</center>
image:BikeSquad.jpg|<center>Ravenwing</center>
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