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Construction Rig • Freighter • Hover Freighter • Raider • Mercenary • Scout • Sniper • Saboteur • Infiltrator • Field Medic • Mechanic • Flak Jack • Martyr • Spider Bike • Skirmish Tank • Tank Hunter • Triple Rail Hover Tank • Phase Tank • Hellstorm Artillery • Rapid Armored Transport • Phase Transport • Sky Bike • Outrider • Shock Wave • Water Contaminator • Base Mover
Construction Rig • Freighter • Hover Freighter • Guardian • Bion • Exterminator • Infiltrator • Amper • Suicide Zombie • Scout Runner • Plasma Tank • Tachion Tank • Mobile Air Defense • Shredder • Recon Drone • S.C.A.R.A.B. • Invader Troop Transport • Hostage Taker • Cyclone • Sky Fortress • Water Contaminator
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These small air units cover far corners of the map quickly, peppering enemies of all types with rapid-fire lasers. |
Ruling the Skies
The Sky Bike can hit both air and ground units, making it fairly universally useful. As a flying unit, it can only be harmed by a limited number of types of enemies. Its speed and freedom of movement also enables it to more easily flee a losing encounter. All of these things greatly increase the Sky Bike’s survivability even though its health is not really very high.
The Sky Bike fires very rapidly but its shots are weak, at least against ground units. (Their lasers fare better against flying units.) They can unload an entire clip of ammunition just to take out a Raider. Even so, most units cannot hit air units, so this frequently allows the Sky Bike to sit there and peck away in peace even if they aren’t doing a lot of damage per shot.
Like the Outrider and the Cyclone, the Sky Bike requires ammunition and will be returning frequently to a Rearming Deck. This can limit their usefulness against ground targets more than one might expect, because the enemy may well heal or repair back to maximum health in the time that it takes your Sky Bikes to rearm and return. For this reason, Sky Bikes are best massed in relatively large numbers if you want to use them to attack ground units. Mixing in some Outriders can help with this as well. Finally, since the Sky Bike functions better against air units, you may wish to have them around primarily for anti-air support, and leave the ground assaults for more capable units.