Black Ark Corsairs (Handbows)
Missile infantry· Handbow Infantry· Tier 2· 100 models at Ultra size
Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.
Black Ark Corsairs (Handbows) are Dark Elves missile infantry: 6,900 HP across 100 models, armour 80, melee attack 32, melee defence 28, weapon strength 32, range 70 m, missile damage 2,000 per 10 s for the whole unit. It costs 750 in the campaign and in multiplayer. Unit key wh2_main_def_inf_black_ark_corsairs_1. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
Health
69 per model
6,900
Armour
80
Leadership
66
Speed
40
Melee attack
32
Melee defence
28
Weapon strength
25 base + 7 armour-piercing
32
Charge bonus
16
Ranged
Range
70 m
Ammunition
16
Missile damage
9 base + 3 AP, 2 projectiles per shot
12
Reload time
12 s
Damage per 10 s
20
Attributes
- Hide (forest)
This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.
- Fire Whilst Moving
This unit can fire while on the move.
Abilities
- Murderous ProwessAugment · +20% Armour-Piercing Missile Damage, +25% Charge Bonus…passiveMurderous ProwessAugment+20% Armour-Piercing Missile Damage+25% Charge Bonus+25% Melee Attack+15 LeadershipPassive · Duration 90 s · 1 useSlaughter! There is no greater glorification of Khaine, the God of Murder, and no more popular form of worship – or indeed daily exercise – amongst the Dark Elves.
Counters
Good against
- Lightly armoured units without shields — 2,000 missile damage per 10 s (whole unit)e.g. Curs'd Ettin, Exalted Plaguebearers of Nurgle, Zombies · Dark Elves: Feral Bears, Shades
Vulnerable to
- Bonus vs infantry — infantry-sizede.g. Doom-Flayers, War Mammoth, Feral Mammoth · Dark Elves: Cold One Chariots, Bloodwrack Shrine
- Heavy large units — infantry-sized, mass 100e.g. Dread Maw, Thunderbarge, Steam Tank · Dark Elves: Black Dragon, Kharibdyss
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
Who can field it
- Dark Elves · Naggarond
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.
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.