Bycycle Infantry - How to use them?

[Daelyn75]

There are only two threads on bicycle infantry in the forums, and both are pre-Waking the Tiger.

With Japan being my favorite nation to play, I was wondering if someone had figured out the best way to use this new infantry.

Needless to say, it is faster than leg infantry at 6.4 as opposed to 4, but doesn't add as much suppression as cavalry. It has a lot of different movement and combat bonus/malus compared to infantry.

Slioghtly slower over rivers, forest, but faster over hills, mountains, and with a 20% bonus in urban.

A lot of its stats are similar to infantry actually, but has 10 support equipment added per battalion. Its overall cost is slightly less than infantry as well.

I'm guessing to use it best would be to have small independent units of it. I ended up skimming over it and then just adding it to my mountain units to flesh them out to division strength instead of just a brigade. Though their speed is wasted using them like that.

Does anyone have anything to add to this?

 

[Meglok]

Use them like cavalry in apprpriate terrain, or as poor man's Motor. Let them exploit.

Dont give them anything except maybe Jap lt. tanks and support companies.

 

[Joonnnyy]

bicicle INF is different to infantry only in 2 aspects, speed and breakthrough/defence
the latter is due to an oversight, since they are not affected by supportweapon research atm
the former is 2.4km/h and some terrainadvatages for movementspeed, exeption being river/amphib -5% speed

unlike mobile INF (cav/mot/mech) they have no terraindisadvantages when attacking over regular INF where mobile INF has 5-20% in many areas like mountain
and in the doctrins they are counted as leg INF so get the same bonus that INF gets, outside the witdh reduction in mass asault

both combined lead me to the conclusion they are perfect for heavy armor divisions (6km/h base) or as pure bicicle division with no towed guns outside support slot or HSPG