Attack cycle

The attack cycle is a successor to the TWI Recon bike, used by Nod, CABAL and The Forgotten during the Second Tiberium War and the Firestorm Crisis.

Overview

Like its predecessor, it incorporates a missile launcher, but can only fire missiles two at a time. It is extremely fast but has very little armour. Its turning rate is much faster than the previous recon bike and thus its manoeuvrability is also much higher.

The pilot is a single Nod soldier, lying prone.

They were succeeded by the more advanced attack bikes in the Third Tiberium War.

In-game

Useful as a scouting unit and as light weapons platform against armoured enemy targets. Unfortunately, their lack of any armour means that they are not effective in prolonged combat situations.

Due to the drastically uneven cost effectiveness of the Nod tick tank, attack cycles often ended up forming the real backbone of the Nod motorpool in the Second Tiberium War. Tick tanks cost just as much as GDI's Titan mechs, but have weaker armour and guns. Unfortunately, they are not significantly faster than Titans either.

Assessment

Pros

• Fastest ground unit in the game
• Very cheap (cost $600)
• Effective against ground vehicles
• Can attack aircraft when elite

Cons

• Virtually unarmored
• Practically weaks against infantry
• Not immune to Tiberium veins.
• Vulnerable to air units when not elite

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Videos

C&C Tiberian Sun - Attack Cycle

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v·d·e Brotherhood of Nod Second Tiberium War Arsenal

Units Infantry Light Infantry Rocket Infantry Engineer Cyborg Mutant Hijacker Cyborg Commando Elite Cadre (FS campaign only) Chameleon Spy (campaign only) Toxin Soldier (campaign only) Vehicles Harvester Attack Buggy Attack Cycle Subterranean Armoured Personal Carrier Tick Tank Mobile Repair Vehicle Mobile Sensor Array Mobile Artillery Limpet Drone (Firestorm only) Mobile Construction Vehicle Fist of Nod (Firestorm only) Devil's Tongue Subterranean Flame Tank Stealth Tank Cyborg Reaper (Firestorm only) Weed Eater Mobile Stealth Generator (Firestorm only) Hunter-Seeker Droid Montauk (campaign only) ICBM Launcher (campaign only) Aircraft Harpy Banshee   Structures Production & tech Construction Yard Power Plant Tiberium Refinery Hand of Nod War Factory Advanced Power Plant Helipad Radar Station Tech Center Temple of Nod Tiberium Waste Facility (campaign only): Global tunnel system • Nod Pyramid Defenses & support Pavement Concrete Wall Gate Tiberium Silo Laser Turret Surface-to-Air Missile Site Laser Fence Electromagnetic Pulse Cannon Obelisk of Light Stealth Generator Missile Silo Searchlight tower (campaign only)   Other Support powers Chemical Missile Multi missile Hunter-Seeker Release Items in italics are exclusive to Firestorm

v·d·e CABAL Second Tiberium War Arsenal

Units Infantry Cyborg Vehicles Harvester Attack Buggy Attack Cycle Subterranean Armoured Personal Carrier Tick Tank Mobile Repair Vehicle Mobile Sensor Array Mobile Artillery Limpet Drone Mobile Construction Vehicle Fist of Nod Devil's Tongue Subterranean Flame Tank Stealth Tank Cyborg Reaper Weed Eater Mobile Stealth Generator Hunter-Seeker Droid Core Defender Aircraft Harpy Banshee Structures Production & tech Construction Yard Power Plant Tiberium Refinery Hand of Nod War Factory Advanced Power Plant Helipad Radar Station Tech Center Temple of Nod Tiberium Waste Facility CABAL Core Cyborg production plant Defenses & support Pavement Concrete Wall Gate Tiberium Silo Laser Turret Surface-to-Air Missile Site Laser Fence Electromagnetic Pulse Cannon Obelisk of Light Stealth Generator Missile Silo Firestorm Wall Section Firestorm generator Obelisk of Darkness CABAL Obelisk Other Support powers Chemical Missile Multi missile Hunter-Seeker Release Firestorm Defense

v·d·e Forgotten Second Tiberium War Arsenal

Units Infantry Mutant Mutant Soldier Mutant Sergeant Rocket Infantry Mutant Sniper Mutant Hijacker Ghost Stalker Tiberian Fiend Vehicles Harvester Attack Buggy Attack Cycle Wolverine Mobile Artillery Flame Tank Mammoth Tank Armoured Automobile Armoured truck Armoured bus Recreational Vehicle Aircraft Harpy   Structures Production & tech Construction Yard Power Plant Tiberium Refinery Barracks War Factory Advanced Power Plant Helipad Defenses & support Tiberium Silo Component Tower Laser Turret Surface-to-Air Missile Site Obelisk of Light Observation tower Upgrades Surface-to-Air Missile Battery Items in italics are only used in Firestorm