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Bike Information
Rubinelle Lazurian/IDS
DoRBike DoRBikeAlt
An infantry unit with high mobility.
They can capture bases.
MAIN SUB
None Machine Gun
Cost 2,500 Inftry ArrowGood
Gas 70 Veh ArrowBad
Ammo Air Hyphen
Mobility 5 Heli ArrowBad
Vision 2 Ship Hyphen
Range 1 Sub Hyphen
IconMovementMovement Tire B IconCombatCombat Inftry
Abilities • Capture • Launch
 IconRedWarning IconBomberIconAntiAirIconWarTankIconRockets
 IconYellowWarning IconArtilleryIconSeaplaneIconMediumTankIconTankIconFlareIconBattleship

Bikes(Days of Ruin) or Motorbikes(Dark Conflict) or バイク兵(失われた光) are a kind of Infantry Unit while also being a Tire B movement unit.

They have a high level of mobility and have the ability to capture bases. They are weak in comparison to non-infantry units. Bikes cost 2500 G. They have a slightly higher firepower than that of the Infantry. They move faster than foot soldiers at 5 movement and are valuable in the start of any game to capture cities and other bases. Other than the lack of a bazooka, they have the same offensive and defensive power as a Mech.

Unlike infantry and mech, however, they are classified as Tire B. Certain terrain will slow it down (i.e. Wood) or become impassable (i.e. Mountains). They cannot be boarded inside Rigs, T-Copters, nor Gunboats. They can only be transported by the more expensive landers.

Bikes are initially introduced in Days of Ruin, and become buildable in New Allies.

Tactics[]

Motorbike 2

A bike in Advance Wars : Days Of Rui

Bikes have the same attack power (referring to their MG) and defense power as Mechs but have the highest movement range of all infantry units. This makes them valuable when capturing bases that are far away quickly and is cheaper (2500 G) than building a rig and other soldier unit. In mid-sized to large maps, their early run can quickly capture units before the mid-line faster than the rig + infantry tactic.

It is important to note that Bikes are considered as infantry rather than vehicles which means any vehicular unit will use its MG rather than its cannon to deal with them. Even so, it is still important to not allow tanks to hit them as that also means that they don't waste their cannon ammo meant for vehicles.

When facing hit & run attacks from Bikes, it is advisable to use vehicular units to since the Bikes only weapon is its MG.

Don't get carried away with spamming bikes. You still have to analyze the map carefully to see when to produce bikes. Maps requiring soldiers to be carried by other transport units (see above) won't carry them; landers can transport them, but you have to pick which of your other ground units to carry instead. They can't pass through mountains nor rivers; not being able to use mountains make them less defensive and lack the vision benefits. Maps with lots of tiles that limit Tire B's movements can make infantry move more squares than Bikes. On large maps at mid and late game when cities are captured and factories are way too far to reach the middle, the movement of T-Copters and rigs may be faster to move infantry or mechs to the front line.

Like the other 2 soldiers, choose wisely on which unit to produce in the current situation.

Matchups[]

Bike Matchups

Opposing unit

Damage given

Damage taken

Primary Secondary Primary Secondary
InfantryBlueMapDoR - 65 - 45
MechBlueMapDoR - 55 - 55
BikeBlueMapDoR - 55 - 55
ReconBlueMapDoR - 18 - 65
FlareBlueMapDoR - 15 - 70
AATankBlueMapDoR - 5 105 -
LightTankBlueMapDoR - 8 (35) 70
MediumTankBlueMapDoR - 5 (40) 80
WarTankBlueMapDoR - 1 (45) 95
ArtilleryBlueMapDoR - 15 85 -
AntiTankBlueMapDoR - 35 65 -
RocketLauncherBlueMapDoR - 35 90 -
AAMBlueMapDoR - 35 - -
APCBlueMapDoR - 20 - -
FighterBlueMapDoR - - - -
BomberBlueMapDoR - - 110 -
DusterBlueMapDoR - - 45 -
SeaplaneBlueMapDoR - - 85 -
BCopterBlueMapDoR - 12 (35) 65
TCopterBlueMapDoR - 35 - -
BShipBlueMapDoR - - 70 -
CarrierBlueMapDoR - - - -
SubmarineBlueMapDoR - - - -
CruiserBlueMapDoR - - - -
LanderBlueMapDoR - - - -
GunboatBlueMapDoR - - - -
MeteoriteDoR - 1 - -
TalonGunDoR - 1 5 HP -
NestMiddleLaserDoR - 1 Laser

8 HP

Mortar

5 HP


Trivia[]

  • This unit seems to be based on the Dnepr.
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