Multi Meltas On Attack Bikes During The Crusade?

[Castlerook]

Quick question and one I probably know the answer to already.

While I know that Multi Meltas were rare during the Great Crusade and usually only mounted on vehicles, is there any fluff to indicate that Multi Meltas were available for attack bikes?

[c-wrex]

Well, there isn't any fluff to say it wasn't used...

[Pacific81]

I'm virtually certain there is a picture of an attack bike in Collected Visions. There is also one of multim meltas being used, so I would tend to go with the 'innocent until proven guilty' and say that they were around (at least later on in the GC)

[Hyperion]

There is at least one picture of an attack bike in Collected Visions - with Mk3/4 armoured crew and a heavy bolter, at the time of the GC. I don't think the MM appears until a bit later, but I'm certainly using MM attack bikes for my heresy-era army.

[Pacific81]

There is a picture of a marine (I think Death Guard) melting a World Eater dreadnought with a multi-melta in Collected Visions also.

 

Surely, some marines would have come up with the idea of sticking one on an attack bike - although hang on, it took 5000 years for someone to twig the idea of sticking a gun on top of a rhino (the razorback) so maybe not! :)