Quote Originally Posted by Cheesegear View Post
Not great. The only reason to use them is because they come with Storm Twin Boltguns, which you can then add a Storm Bolter onto, for 8 shots from a single model. Scout Bikes aren't 'good', per se, but they are useful on occasion and they're definitely what you bring when you want to make a Space Marine Brigade for some reason. Normal Bikes, though? Kind of a waste. Especially now that Drop Pods are back in town.

Dark Angels... Don't use normal Bikes. They use Bikes with Plasma Guns on the front and pickaxes in Melee.
Space Wolves... Use ThunderCav.

For everything else? ...Vertus Praetors just blow Bikes out of the water, and Dawneagle Captains are serious business.

So yeah. Bikes aren't good. Insultingly, White Scars want just one unit of Bikes if their army, because everything in the White Scars book that makes Bikes almost playable is a Stratagem, which means it can only be played once per turn.
Not really, it wants HQs with Jump Packs and Phobos units to keep up, with a Terminator ancient so he can drop in to provide its aura. Bikes just give you a meme list, its better to start hidden in terrain 9" away from the enemy deployment than to be sitting at the deploy line and get shot to pieces 'cause you got seized. Also, not flying makes your speed way less relevant.