I was out riding the other day and passed a guy with a side car on his bike, which got me thinking. I know CM has had an on going struggle regarding vehicles. I propose the MMM, the Mobile Medical Motorcycle and the MSM, the Mobile Supply Motorcycle. A rather silly idea, but I found it entertaining and felt like sharing.
I envision them being 1x2 for the sake of our poor engies and being able to be leaped/jumped over and pushed by xeno. Maybe make is so T3s and the queen can just walk over them to stop the vehicle blocking. I don’t imagine them with any kind of weapons as I’d like to keep them strictly support vehicles. VC, Engie’s, and Synths as operators to keep them in line with other vehicles like the van. Additionally, I imagine them working kind of like the tram with a roller bed/storage box attached to the side. You could make the bike longer to have a second rider for a medic creating a kind of ambulance or as a secondary transport.
Only real difference between the two is for the medical transport there is a roller next to the bike while the supply version has a hard point for the supply boxes dropped from req to attach.
they were semi-regulated by having to fill them with fuel from jerrycans (just the same fuel as welding fuel, it wasn’t a very fancy system). i imagine that could also be a good limitation here and would make those using think in advance how they want to sustain it via packing or scavenging. other balance issues DID arise later on, namely blocking and researchers that took a minigun doing drivebys, but i think we could resolve those things easily here (vehicles on tgmc have caste hard-counters that have ranged attacks that do more damage to them). it could be that, lowering the health of the bike, allowing important castes to step over as you said, or something else.
I think we’ve had to shoot down motorcycles more than once. Beagle had me CM-ify the TG sprites once upon the time for an event, but that’s as far as it’ll ever go here. Motorcycles do not fit our aesthetic, simple as. As for vehicles, there are at least two new ones on the way.
