Unofficial fan reference · game data patch 9.0.4 (Oct 15, 2026)
Black Orcs unit card

Black Orcs

Melee infantry· Axe & Shield Infantry· Tier 3· 80 models at Ultra size

Comes with Omens of Destruction – Greenskins(Warhammer III)

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Black Orcs are Greenskins melee infantry: 10,800 HP across 80 models, armour 110, melee attack 34, melee defence 42, weapon strength 48. It costs 1,000 in the campaign and in multiplayer. They come with Omens of Destruction – Greenskins. Unit key wh3_dlc26_grn_inf_black_orcs_shield. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.

Health

135 per model

10,800

top 9% of class

Armour

shield blocks 55% of small-arms missiles from the front (not artillery)

110

top 10% of class

Leadership

72

top 48% of class

Speed

29

bottom 24% of class

Melee attack

34

bottom 48% of class

Melee defence

42

top 33% of class

Weapon strength

34 base + 14 armour-piercing

48

top 21% of class

Charge bonus

30

top 19% of class

Attributes

Abilities

  • Immovable BulwarkAugment · -24 Melee Attack, +24 Melee Defenceactive

Upgrades

Bought with Scrap

  • Immortulz Armour

    Armour · 50 Scrap · only Crooked Moon, Grimgor's 'Ardboyz

    • Physical resistance: 5%
    • Armour: +15
    • Leadership: +8
  • Sharpenin' Stones

    Bag · 50 Scrap

    • Armour-piercing weapon damage: +5
  • Da Best Blades

    Weapon · 55 Scrap

    • Melee attack: +5
    • Weapon strength: +20%

Campaign only, from the game's tables (unit_upgrade_to_unit_groups, unit_purchasable_effects), patch 9.0.4. Costs are before skills and technologies that make upgrades cheaper.

Counters

Vulnerable to

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

COMPUTEDAt equal gold it beats 44.6% of the game's 194 infantry units in melee. Per 1,000 gold: 112.5 damage per second against Chaos Warriors; it lasts 94 s against one unit of them.

Beats, at a similar price: Skin Wolves (8.76× faster), Skin Wolves (Armoured) (8.01× faster), Slayers (2.69× faster)

Loses to, at a similar price: Chosen (2.95× slower), Greatswords (2.62× slower), Har Ganeth Executioners (2.11× 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 1,000 multiplayer gold. Greenskin units ranked.

Match-ups people search for: Black Orcs vs Black Orcs (Great Weapons) · Black Orcs vs Hammerers · Black Orcs vs Orc Big 'Uns

Who can field it

  • Greenskins · Grimgor's 'Ardboyz

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.