War Bear Riders
Monstrous cavalry· Monstrous Cavalry· Tier 4· 16 models at Ultra size
Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.
War Bear Riders are Kislev monstrous cavalry: 8,256 HP across 16 models, armour 100, melee attack 46, melee defence 34, weapon strength 110. It costs 1,600 in the campaign and in multiplayer. Unit key wh3_main_ksl_cav_war_bear_riders_1. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
Health
516 per model
8,256
Armour
100
Leadership
70
Speed
75
Melee attack
46
Melee defence
34
Weapon strength
33 base + 77 armour-piercing, +23 vs large
110
Charge bonus
44
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.
- Hide (forest)
This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.
Abilities
- By Our BloodAugmentpassiveBy Our BloodAugmentPassive · Duration 25 s · 1 useKislevite warriors are inherently stronger than weak-hearted Empire-men, who know nothing of the hardship and strife of lives lived on the unforgiving steppes.
Counters
Good against
- Large units — bonus vs large 23e.g. Rogue Idol, Dread Saurian, Khemric Titan · Kislev: Elemental Bear, Frost Wyrm
- Heavily armoured units — 77 of 110 weapon strength armour-piercinge.g. Steam Tank, Blessed Bastiladon (Solar Engine), Rotting Leviathan · Kislev: Heavy War Sleds, Gryphon Legion
- Light infantry-sized units — large, mass 1,700e.g. Exalted Plaguebearers of Nurgle, Zombies, Zombie Pirate Deckhand Mob · Kislev: Tzar Guard, Kislevite Warriors
Vulnerable to
- Bonus vs large — large (cavalry-sized or bigger)e.g. Bone Giant, Feral Troglodon, Warp Lightning Cannons · Kislev: Frost Wyrm, Little Grom
- Armour-piercing — armour 100e.g. Warp-Doom Magma-Cannon, Luminark of Hysh, Dread Saurian · Kislev: Little Grom, Elemental Bear
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: Luminark of Hysh (2323.03× faster), Casket of Souls (855.35× faster), Ironblaster (63.77× faster)
Loses to, at a similar price: Hexwraiths (1.31× slower), Knights of the White Wolf (1.25× slower), Mournfang Cavalry (Great Weapons) (1.23× slower)
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 1,600 multiplayer gold. Kislev units ranked.
Match-ups people search for: War Bear Riders vs Demigryph Knights · War Bear Riders vs Gryphon Legion
Who can field it
- Kislev · The Ice Court
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.
The campaign also recruits 1 copy of this unit that no faction fields in custom battles (wh3_main_pro_ksl_cav_war_bear_riders_1: recruited from a building).
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.