Steed bike
Description
Steed model motorbikes are Avalon’s most common personnel vehicles, particularly among the ranks of Gryphon division. Their appearance is that of a powerful, manoeuvrable, sleek bike with a wide handlebar shielded by an aerodynamic beak. The tires, mounted on two thick, computerised suspension wheels, are solid, not pneumatic. Their self-repairing cells are designed to withstand extreme acceleration and braking at high speeds. Most steed owners have custom paint jobs performed on their bikes, using bright colours to show their fondness for speed and danger.
One thing to note is that, unlike other vehicles, steeds can be purchased as modules from the arsenal. Their high-tech design allows them to fold like a meta-armour, and deploy from small disks slid on the ground (or can be created from scratch via one of the Priest meta-armour’s upgrades).
Stat block
Weapons
One front-mounted foldable shotgun
Q&A > Arsenal questions > Vehicles - Jan. 17, 2025, 12:31 p.m.
Weapons with the anti-vehicle effect deal their full damage to a vehicle’s AP. For each whole 5 AP lost by the vehicle, all people onboard (pilot and passengers) lose 1 HP with no FF reduction or protection from Guardian suits or metaarmour. A weapon without the anti-vehicle effect deals its damage divided by 10 and must therefore deal 50 damage in order for the vehicle to lose 5 AP and damage the people inside for 1 HP.
Someone riding a steed bike is much less protected than someone in a vector, and can be targeted directly without having to damage the vehicle. If the rider is attacked directly, the vehicle provides no additional armour.
Q&A > Arsenal questions > Vehicles - Jan. 17, 2025, 12:31 p.m.
No. It is attached to the bike itself.
Other foldable shotguns are mentioned in vehicle descriptions like in vectors, or in Avalon outposts next to fire extinguishers and in Camelot itself, and these can all be freely used.
Q&A > Meta-armour questions > Paladin - Jan. 17, 2025, 12:31 p.m.
The rule about Paladin armours taking up two spaces rather than one is not a consequence of its “Slow and heavy” disadvantage, appearing in the general rules on vehicles. Paladins can never use Steed bikes.
Q&A > Meta-armour questions > Barbarian - Jan. 17, 2025, 12:31 p.m.
No, modules do not grow in size along with the metaarmour, and a Barbarian in Goliath mode is too big for that vehicle.