Bear
Overview and History
Vehicle Specifications   General Stats
Name: Bear   Threat Value: 600
Vehicle Type: Walker   Offensive Value: 1,391
Production Type: Mass Produced   Defensive Value: 226
Cost: 342,857.14 marks   Miscellaneous Value: 182
Manufacturer: Northco   Size: 7
Use: Fire Support   Original Default Size: 8
Height: 5.6 meters   Indv. Lemon Dice: 3
Length: 3.7 meters   Crew: 1
Width: 3.7 meters   Bonus Actions: 0
Avg. Armor Thickness: 74mm
Armor Material: Composites   Armor
Standard Op. Weight: 8456 kg   Light Damage: 17
Primary Move Mode: Walker (36 kph)   Heavy Damage: 34
Secondary Move Mode: Ground (60 kph)   Overkill: 51
Deployment Range: 380 km
Sensor Range: 2 km   Vehicle Availability
Communication Range: 10 km   Availability Threshhold: 4
Powerplant: V-Engine   Max Number on Field: 10
Engine Output: 780hp  
    Movement
Electronics   Primary Move Mode: Walker
Sensors: 0   Combat Speed: 3
Communications: 0   Top Speed: 6
Fire Control: 0   Secondary Move Mode: Ground
    Combat Speed: 5
    Top Speed: 10
    Maneuver: -1
Weapons
Quantity Name Code Arc ACC Damage Range ROF Ammo Special
 1
  Heavy Autocannon
 HAC
 F
 0
 x12
 3/6/12/24
 +1
 40
  
 2
  Medium Rocket Pack/36
 MRP/36
 FF
 -1
 x18
 2/4/8/16
 +4
 36
  IF
 1
  Light Machine Gun
 LMG
 F
 0
 x3
 1/2/4/8
 +4
 200
  AI
 1
  Light Guided Mortar
 LGM
 F
 -1
 x15
 3/6/12/24
 
 8
  MR3, Guid, IF
 1
  Vibroblade
 VB
 F
 0
 x8
 0/0/0/0
 
 0
  
Perks
Name Rating Game Effects AUX
 Double Towing Capacity
 
  Can tow twice its own weight
 
 HEP: Desert
 
  -
 
 Manipulator Arm x2
 7
  Can punch
 
Flaws
Name Rating Game Effects
 Large Sensor Profile
 1
  Subtract rating from Concealment
Defects
Name Rating Game Effects
 Annoyance Flaw
 
  Machinegun flash blinds pilot
Variants
There are no variants.
Designer Notes
The Bear was the first Northern Gear designed to be a true fire support specialist unit from the onset. Previously, this function had been assumed by the Mad Dog, a Western-designed Gear made as an attmept to face the UMF's Hunter. The Mad Dog sported heavier weaponry and spread throughout the North in limited numbers in the early period of Gear development. The Mad Dog was never a superior design, however, and was withdrawn from service. The Northco Razorback was also supposedly assigned to limit fire support duties, but its short range firepower, low ammunition weaponry kept it as a tank hunter above all else. In TN 181 Northco announced that it would finally be fulfilling the fire support nich appropriately and the Bear was released soon thereafter.