Thread 63905506

How fast would you need a motorcycle to be to compensate for not having as much armor for assault on eneny positions?
Like going St 400km would make it hard for artillery to target you i think

>>63905506 (OP)
Traditional dumb artillery has something called registration for this. They'll prefire on fixed target points like a crossroads to work out any minor variations in ammo quality, weather, the gun barrel and so on. In the WW2 era this would often happen while preparing a defense so craters near a road were an instant bad omen.

When forward observers suspected enemy, the artillery would fire into that zone constantly.

>>63905506 (OP)
It's not something you can compensate for with speed because you're rarely going to be able to go full-out in the terrain around an enemy position. Craters, ditches, trenches, wire, all of those are going to make speed more an additional liability rather than an asset.

Faster than bullets

>>63908307
That's a lot of White Scars

>>63908307

Apparently GW never learns its lesson rules-wise and something similar happened a couple years back at a livestreamed Euro AoS tournament between two Beastmen armies. Time is a flat circle indeed.

>>63905946
The concept of a hoverbike somewhat averts this, but casualties from environmental collisions do become an inevitability at the speeds required to avoid artillery.
The problem for >>63905506 (OP) is that above about 120km/h you have enough lift that for military purposes one might as well build a slow helicopter rather than a fast bike or jeep. This is also why tactical transport helicopters still exist, because machineguns and MANPADs don't exist in that 50-to-10km band behind the line of contact but artillery shelling does.

>>63910962
It's not GW that has to learn this lesson, it's the players.
If a dude knew the story and did the same thing anyway, it's his fault

>>63910962
An army based on one trick had the trick countered, what's the issue