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In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only...BEARS.
I was bored so I thought I'd make a bear codex. Here goes.

HQ

Bear Lord
Mighty veterans of countless battles, Bear Lords are fearsome foes indeed, capable of ripping through bone and armour alike in their destructure war-stance.

180pts
WS:7 BS:3 S:6 T:5 W:3 A:4 I:6 Ld:10 Sv 4+

Unit type: Beast
Wargear:
*Bear claws (counts as two twin-linked power weapons)
*Frag and crack grenades
Upgrades:
*May be upgraded with Bear Armour for +35 points
*May take Melta Bombs for +5pts

Panda Ragebearer

Adherants of the the rage-God Feih, these brutal creatures rend flesh and armour alike in a single-minded fury against all things living.
150pts
WS:5 BS:3 S:5 T:5 W:2 A:3 I:5 Ld:10 Sv 4+
Wargear:
*Enchanted Rune-Claws (counts as two twin-linked rending power weapons)
*Frag and Krak Grenades
*May replace one Rune-Claw with twin-linked laspistol for no extra cost

Special Rules:
*The Ragebearer and any unit he joins are subject to Rage and Furious Charge special rule
*Ragebearer may only join bear units

Elites

Badger


Ever since the Great Concordat of M38.54, the Badgers have sent tithes of their mightiest warriors to assist the bears in battle. They are wily, fearsome foes, renowned for their viciousness.

3 Badgers-50 points

Badger-WS:4 BS:2 S3 T:3 W:1 A:2 I:4 Ld:8 Sv: 5+
Cete-Lord-WS:5 BS:3 S:3 T:3 W:1 A:3 I:5 Ld:9 Sv:5+

One Badger may be upgraded to Cete-Lord for 10 points.
Unit type: Beast
Equipment:
*Badger claws (counts as two twin-linked close combat weapons)
*Frag Grenades
Special Rules:
*Furious Charge

Penguins



With the annexation of the Arctic by the Great Bear Lord Yroffson in ~M27, the penguins became subjects of the bears, subject to a yearly tithe of warriors. They have excelled themselves in battle countless times, earning the respect of the Bears. Indeed the saying "Bold as penguins" is a great compliment in Bear society.

10 Penguins-200 points

Penguin Warrior-WS:5 BS:3 S:3 T:3 W:1 A:2: I:5 Ld:8 Sv:4++
Penguin Sargent-WS:6 BS:3 S:3 T:3 W:1 A:3 I:5 Ld:9 Sv:4++

One Penguin Warrior may be upgraded to a Penguin Sargent for +20 points.

Unit Type: Infantry
Wargear:
Power Sword
Mithrel Sheild(grants 4+ invulnerable save)
Frag and Krak Grenades
Penguin Sargent may take melta bombs for +5 points
Any Penguin Warrior and/pr the Penguin Sargent may take-
Lasgun +1 point
Boltun +2 points


Troops

Black Bear



Black bears are ferocious preditory animals, renowned for their tracking skills.

4-10 Black Bears, 10 points per bear
WS:4 BS:3 S:4 T:3 W:1 A:2 I:4 Ld:7 Sv: 6+

Unit type: Beast
Wargear:
*Bear claws (counts as two twin-linked close-combat weapons)
*Frag Grenades
Up to 3 Black Bears may exchange their Bear Claws for Plasma Guns at +15pts/model

Brown Bear

1 Brown Bear 25 points*
WS:5 BS:4 S:5 T:4 W:1 A:3 I:5 Ld:9 Sv:4+
Wargear:
*Bear Claws(counts as two twin-linked close combat weapons)
*Frag and Krak Grenades


*You may take up to 3 brown bears in a single troop choice.
Koala Bears

Koala Bears are docile creatures, only ever taking to battle against people who call them "bears".

10 Koala Bears 100 points

WS:3 BS:3 S:3 T:3 W:1 A:2 I:4 Ld:8 Sv:6+

Unit Type: Infantry
Wargear:
*Laspistol
*Boomerang(one-shot 12" S5 Assault 1 rending)

Fast Attack

Bear Catapult


Whenever a Bear general needs his Bears on the front line in double time, he can rely on the Bear Catapult to propel them there.

1 Bear Catapult(artillery) 3 crew(infantry)-150 pts
Bear Catapult: 12/12/12
Crew: WS:3 BS:3 S:4 T:3 I:3 W:1 A:1 Ld:8 Sv:5+
Unit Type: Artillery
Wargear:
*Frag and Krak Grenades (crew)

Special Rules:
When firing the bear catapult, place a marker anywhere on the board, then roll for scatter (Bear Catapult always scatters even on a hit). If the marker scatters into dangerous or impassable terrain then the bear has met his untimely demise smeared on a rock or other piece of scenery and therefore may not deploy. If the marker is not in dangerous or impassible terrain, place a Brown Bear where it scattered.

Bear Cyclists


Bringing swift death to enemies of the Bears, these ferocious warriors make surgical strikes at the enemy's weakpoints.

3 Bear Cyclists(Cavalry) 60 points
Bear Cyclist WS:4 BS:4 S:5 T:4(5) W:1 A:2 Ld:8 Sv 4+
Cyclist Sargent WS:4 BS:4 S:5 T:4(5) W:1 A:3 Ld:9 Sv 4+

Unit type: Bike
Wargear:
*1 Bear Claw (counts as a single twin-linked close combat weapon)
*1 Bolt Pistol
*Frag and Krak Grenades
*Cyclist Sargent may take Melta Bombs for +5 points
*Cyclist Sargent may replace Bolt Pistol with Plasma Pistol for +15 points

Heavy Support

Armoured Bear

Armoured Bears, or panserbjørne, are the elite warriors of Bear society. Solitary and more pensive than other bears, they clad themselves in mithrel armour the night before battle, swearing to remove it only when their fur is soaked red with the blood of their enemies.

1-3 Armoured Bear(Infantry) 50 points each

WS:5 BS:4 S:5 T:5 W:1 A:3 Ld:10 Sv:2+

Unit type: Beast
Wargear
*2 twin-linked Bear Claws (counts as two twin-linked power weapons)
*Frag and Krag Grenades
*One Armoured Bear may take a back-mounted Plasma Cannon for +20 points

Chainsaw Bear

Only the most fearsome bears are allowed access to the arsenal at Fjørgbørøgsøømjør where the Bears' most advanced and deadly weaponry is stored.

1 Chainsaw Bear(Infantry)40 points each

WS:5 BS:4 S:4 T:4 W:1 A:4 I:6 Ld:10 Sv:4+

Unit type: Beast
Wargear
*2 Blancmange Chainsaws (Counts as two twin-linked power weapons that strike at Strength 8)
*Frag and Krak Grenades

Special Charectors

Mr Biggles and his Amazing Flying Contraption
Mr Biggles is the greatest living flying ace in the Bear Air Force, renowned both for his piloting ability and for his uncontrollable rage. Indeed it is suspected that he remains in the Bear Army because the Bears don't know how to get him to leave them alone.
Butchering friend and foe alike in his Motke blood-rage, Mr Biggles is truely one of the most destructive forces in the universe, a law unto himself. Despite this, he is also known for his distrinctive flying goggles and checkered scarf, a relic of his youth spent killing fighter pilots.
400 points
Mr Biggles:
WS:8 BS:5 S:6 T:6 W:4 A:6 I:7 Ld:10 Sv 4+

Wargear
*2 Power Claws(Counts as two twin-linked power weapons that strike at Strength 10 and roll an extra D6 for armour penetration)
*Frag and Krak Grenades
*Moonshine(Once per game in the assault phase, Mr Biggles may drink his Moonshine, granting him Initiative 10 and 10 attacks. However when the enemy strikes back, they will automatically hit owing to Mr Biggles' drunken stupour. These effects last for the rest of the game.)

Mr Biggles' Amazing Flying Contraption(flier, fast)
AV Front:12 ,Side:12, Back:12
Equipment
*3 Twin-linked psycannons
*3 Twin-linked plasma cannons
*Extra Armour

Special Rules:
*Hurtling descent-Mr Biggles starts the game as a pilot in his magnificent machine, he may disembark from it in one of 2 ways:
1-If his flying contraption is wrecked or destroyed, he will bail out, scattering from the base of the flyer as normal. If he scatters into dangerous or impassable terrain, he instead stops short of it and takes a wound (it takes more than a rock to kill Mr Biggles!)
2-In his movement phase, Mr Biggles may launch his contraption into an enemy squad if it is within movement range. If he does this, the squad suffers 2d6 Strength 8 AP 2 hits from the impact of the plane, place a crater or wreckage under the squad and place Mr Biggles anywhere 1" away from the squad. He may shoot and assault as normal in the assault phase

*Uncontrollable Rage-Mr Biggles' fury is so strong that he is compelled to attack the nearest thing, even if it is fellow Bears. In the shooting phase, Mr Biggles must shoot at the nearest unit, regardless of whether it is friend or foe. In the assault phase, if Mr Biggles has disembarked, he must assault the nearest unit, again regardless of friend or foe.

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Ever thought 40k would be a lot better with bears?
Codex: Bears.
NOW WITH MR BIGGLES AND HIS AMAZING FLYING CONTRAPTION 
   
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I've been waiting to see this, actually. I knew it was coming. Badgers are overpriced for what they do, and make sure to mention that everything is beasts.

Remember that armoured bears can channel lightning, so that should be represented somewhere.

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chrisrawr wrote:I've been waiting to see this, actually. I knew it was coming. Badgers are overpriced for what they do, and make sure to mention that everything is beasts.

Remember that armoured bears can channel lightning, so that should be represented somewhere.

It was my understanding that armoured bears lost the ability to channel lightening after their war with Ingresec, the Lightening God(Thrál)'s estranged sibling?

Ever thought 40k would be a lot better with bears?
Codex: Bears.
NOW WITH MR BIGGLES AND HIS AMAZING FLYING CONTRAPTION 
   
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Nope, Volibear is a prime example.

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Oh wait you're talking about an actual thing.
I was just making this gak up.

Ever thought 40k would be a lot better with bears?
Codex: Bears.
NOW WITH MR BIGGLES AND HIS AMAZING FLYING CONTRAPTION 
   
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Canada

Badgers aren't bears! And of course...




   
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No but they are allies of the bears, as I explained above.
DEFINITELY using the bears on horseback picture (cropped) for bear cavalry.

Ever thought 40k would be a lot better with bears?
Codex: Bears.
NOW WITH MR BIGGLES AND HIS AMAZING FLYING CONTRAPTION 
   
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Get more high! I want to read the rest of this army list!

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Hell, no more stupid than Codex: Dakkadakka (Which I am working on with others, before I get shot down.)

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Defend your right to arm bears!

Don't forget pandas. They are bears, if timid vegan bears. Every codex has at least one unit type that no one takes. Perhaps you could give them Infiltrate like Scouts. Not because they are sneaky, but they sleep so much the enemy could walk right over them and set up camp on top of them. When the pandas wake up, everyone is surprised!

Polar Bears should be Elites. A full grown male is the largest of all bear species at 1000 lbs. They have incredible endurance (there's a news article about a female polar bear who had to swim for two weeks straight because of the melting ice. Her cub didn't make it though.) So a polar bear unit would have lots of wounds, high toughness, and ignore severe terrain.

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Pandas will probably be HQ pskers with crazy special rules.
I was going to have polar bears armoured, as in the panzerbyorn of the His Dark Materials trilogy...only with some kind of cannon.
Rest assured they will make Terminators look like pussies.

Ever thought 40k would be a lot better with bears?
Codex: Bears.
NOW WITH MR BIGGLES AND HIS AMAZING FLYING CONTRAPTION 
   
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Joey wrote:I was going to have polar bears armoured, as in the panzerbyorn of the His Dark Materials trilogy ...only with some kind of cannon.
Rest assured they will make Terminators look like pussies.
Haven't read His Dark Materials, but your last sentence explains it all. That's fine. Polar bears are the planet's supreme land predator, so they should be bada$$.

Trying to think of other bear species that might lend themselves to having unusual unit abilities ... I'll post if they come to mind. Good luck with the project!

Maybe Sun bears ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_bear ) as psykers? The orange-colored patch is just for show now, but perhaps they could actually cause a blinding flash in 40, 000 years.

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You have to have grizzlies in here, of course.

 
   
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Added Penguins and brown/black bears.

Ever thought 40k would be a lot better with bears?
Codex: Bears.
NOW WITH MR BIGGLES AND HIS AMAZING FLYING CONTRAPTION 
   
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This is truley awesome, Bears have needed a Codex for years.

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Cant wait for GW to print this codex. I also think that a cow or bull should be Dedicated Transports!!!

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I aprove of this Codex, i've always thought that the 40K-verse wasn't Grizzly enough *nod nod*
(Bad pun indeed)


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Penguins? Penguins?! In a BEAR Codex?!

Now that's just silly.

 
   
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What the hell does a twin-linked power weapon do.....or a Twin-Linked CC weapon?

How many wounds do these have? The Bearlord really needs an Invuln save.

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With a bit of work this could become something amazing.

If it reaches the point I think worthy, I will create a 1500 point force from this codex, all wysiwyg. :p

   
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I wish GW made more then 2/3 bear models

 
   
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Geneva

I remember a friend playing a game of Stronghold 3 (medieval castle game thingy) and a couple a bears just tore through his place and murdered everybody. Since then, we officially recognized bears as bad mothertruckers.

I fear for the day that my guardsmen will have to face bears with nothing but Lasguns, Air support and a couple of Leman Russ tanks. May the emperor have mercy upon their souls.

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If anyone's played "Impossible Creatures", you'll remember that the Bearantula was scary as balls.

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Geneva

chrisrawr wrote:If anyone's played "Impossible Creatures", you'll remember that the Bearantula was scary as balls.


That game was insanely awesome O.o

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I vote for psyker Platypus. Perfect creature of the warp.
I mean egg-laying, venomous, duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed mammal? Even Tzeentch was like

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I'm guessing not giving them wounds was intentional...? THEY CAN'T BE KILLED!

   
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After being banned for a couple of days for suggesting in a tech support thread that the OP delete system 32...
Added Ragebearers and Cyclists, also wounds.

Ever thought 40k would be a lot better with bears?
Codex: Bears.
NOW WITH MR BIGGLES AND HIS AMAZING FLYING CONTRAPTION 
   
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This made a very bad day better.

Edit: That penguin is now my PC background. I want it as my avatar on here honestly.

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I laughed so hard. Can we get a honey badger upgrade on badgers that makes them fearless? (Honey Badger Don't care) Also we need a monstrous Heavy Support bear, with a battle cannon strapped to it's back.

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