Battlefield role: Monstrous cavalry.
Unit type: Cavalry.
Content pack: Total War: Warhammer III (base game). Immortal Empires ownership
Availability
- Part of the Total War: Warhammer III base-game Kislev roster. Recruitment depends on faction access and the relevant settlement or military buildings.
- Included in the Total War: WARHAMMER III base-game roster. In Immortal Empires, recruit this unit while playing a faction with access to its race and recruitment chain.
Official references
Choose a useful engagement
Use War Bear Riders to meet a mounted or large threat, reinforce a contested flank or attack an enemy already occupied by infantry. Their mass and mounted role create opportunities that a bow regiment cannot, but they still need a sensible route into combat.
Avoid sending them through your own tightly packed line or into an unsupported fight against several enemy units. If the opponent can focus missiles and melee on the same regiment, the rest of your army needs to create pressure quickly.
Work with the infantry
Kossars and Streltsi benefit when an enemy is held away from their shooting positions. Bear cavalry can help protect those positions, then join an attack once the immediate threat is contained.
Keep track of the battle after the first charge. A regiment that pursues far beyond the army may leave the flank exposed. Pull it toward a useful target or friendly support while there is still room to move.
Recruiting the cavalry unit
War Bear Riders are recruited through Kislev's bear military building chain. Check the unit's entry in the building browser and prepare a province that can supply it before building an army plan around several regiments.
The unit is separate from a bear mount chosen for an individual character. A lord or hero riding a bear remains a single character, while War Bear Riders occupy a regiment slot as cavalry.
Bears and their supporting characters
Boris Ursus gives a bear-cavalry army a melee commander, while Katarin can support its engagements with Ice magic. With either lord, send the riders into a fight the rest of the army can reach or influence.
A Patriarch belongs where his hymns help the units that need them. A Frost Maiden needs enough distance to cast safely. Keep those character roles in mind when the cavalry moves away from the infantry, so the support team does not become an exposed second group.
Race and roster
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