Feral Ice Bears
War beast· Monster· Tier 2· 12 models at Ultra size
Comes with The Queen & The Crone(Warhammer II)
Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.
Feral Ice Bears are Dark Elves and Kislev war beast: 6,696 HP across 12 models, armour 15, melee attack 57, melee defence 40, weapon strength 77. It costs 1,100 in the campaign and in multiplayer. They come with The Queen & The Crone. Unit key wh3_main_monster_feral_ice_bears. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
Health
558 per model
6,696
Armour
15
Leadership
60
Speed
75
Melee attack
57
Melee defence
40
Weapon strength
42 base + 35 armour-piercing, +35 vs large
77
Charge bonus
32
Attributes
- Causes Fear
This unit frightens all enemy units, reducing their leadership when nearby. It is also immune to fear. Fear penalties do not stack.
- Vanguard Deployment
This unit can deploy outside the deployment zone.
- Hide (forest)
This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.
- Woodsman
This unit can pass through trees.
Abilities
- The Chilling AuraHex · -30% SpeedpassiveThe Chilling AuraHex-30% SpeedPassive · Range 35 mAs if the enemy were caught in a blizzard or wading through treacle, the ice-cold aura slows any unit within range to a near-standstill.
Counters
Good against
- Large units — bonus vs large 35e.g. Rogue Idol, Dread Saurian, Khemric Titan · Dark Elves: Kharibdyss, War Hydra
- Light infantry-sized units — large, mass 1,900e.g. Exalted Plaguebearers of Nurgle, Zombies, Zombie Pirate Deckhand Mob · Dark Elves: Black Guard of Naggarond, Har Ganeth Executioners
Vulnerable to
- Bonus vs large — large (cavalry-sized or bigger)e.g. Bone Giant, Feral Troglodon, Warp Lightning Cannons · Dark Elves: Reaper Bolt Throwers, Scourgerunner Chariots
- Missile fire — armour 15, no shielde.g. Ratling Guns, Stormfiends (Ratling Cannons), Chameleon Stalkers · Dark Elves: Shades, Black Ark Corsairs (Handbows)
Computed from base unit-card values (no skills, items or abilities), one rule per line; examples are units with the most of that trait. How counters are worked out · Try it in the combat calculator
Gold for gold
Beats, at a similar price: Jet Lion (4.06× faster), Jade Lion (3.69× faster), War Lions of Chrace (1.84× faster)
Equal gold, every model fighting at its weapon's attack interval, combat calculator formulas; no charge, mass, splash, leadership or abilities. “Similar price”: within 30% of its 1,100 multiplayer gold.
Who can field it
- Dark Elves · Naggarond · extended roster
- Kislev · The Ice Court · extended roster
Custom Battle lists factions under each race; every faction of a race fields that race's units (units_custom_battle_permissions rows of any of its factions). The name after the race is the faction the army builder uses.
Extended roster: every race above has this unit only through campaign_exclusive rows of units_custom_battle_permissions — CA's note: such units are “filtered out of matchmaking and are generally disabled when unit caps setting is enabled” (“Unable to recruit with unit caps enabled”). So: Custom Battle with Unit caps off, at the multiplayer cost, but not in ranked battles. Race rankings and best-unit lists leave such a unit out for those races.
Where these numbers come from
Read from the game's database tables for patch 9.0.4 (main_units, land_units, battle_entities, melee_weapons, projectiles…) as published in the WH3-Dump export (commit 099796e8). Formulas that turn table values into card values are checked against known units before they are shown — how we verify.