Blessed Ripperdactyl Riders
Monstrous cavalry· Flying Cavalry· Tier 3· 10 models at Ultra size
Comes with The Prophet & The Warlock(Warhammer II)
Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.
Blessed Ripperdactyl Riders are Lizardmen monstrous cavalry: 7,160 HP across 10 models, armour 65, melee attack 55, melee defence 25, weapon strength 126. It costs 1,100 in multiplayer. They come with The Prophet & The Warlock. Unit key wh2_dlc12_lzd_cav_ripperdactyl_riders_0_blessed. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
Health
716 per model
7,160
Armour
65
Leadership
65
Speed
90
Melee attack
55
Melee defence
25
Weapon strength
32 base + 94 armour-piercing, +15 vs infantry
126
Charge bonus
52
Attributes
- Causes Fear
This unit frightens all enemy units, reducing their leadership when nearby. It is also immune to fear. Fear penalties do not stack.
- Devastating Flanker
Entities with this attribute double their charge bonus when attacking the rear or flank of an entity.
- Can Fly
This unit can fly.
- Vanguard Deployment
This unit can deploy outside the deployment zone.
Abilities
- Primal InstinctsAugment · +15% Charge Bonus, +5 Melee Attack…passivePrimal InstinctsAugment+15% Charge Bonus+5 Melee Attack+5% Physical ResistancePassiveWhen under pressure, the primal instincts of these natural predators take over, improving their potential in combat.
- FrenzyAugment · +10% Charge Bonus, +10 Melee Attack…passiveFrenzyAugment+10% Charge Bonus+10 Melee Attack+10% Armour-Piercing Weapon Damage+10% Base Weapon DamagePassiveSome warriors care not for their own personal safety, and so work themselves into a whirlwind of destruction and mindless violence!
Counters
Good against
- Infantry-sized units — bonus vs infantry 15e.g. Exalted Plaguebearers of Nurgle, Zombies, Zombie Pirate Deckhand Mob · Lizardmen: Blessed Temple Guard, Blessed Saurus Spears (Shields)
- Heavily armoured units — 94 of 126 weapon strength armour-piercinge.g. Steam Tank, Rotting Leviathan, Rogue Idol · Lizardmen: Blessed Bastiladon (Solar Engine), Blessed Sacred Kroxigor
- Light infantry-sized units — large, mass 1,070e.g. Exalted Plaguebearers of Nurgle, Zombies, Zombie Pirate Deckhand Mob · Lizardmen: Blessed Saurus Spears (Shields), Blessed Saurus Warriors (Shields)
Vulnerable to
- Bonus vs large — large (cavalry-sized or bigger)e.g. Bone Giant, Warp Lightning Cannons, Bolt Throwers · Lizardmen: Feral Troglodon, Blessed Stegadon
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
Beats, at a similar price: Casket of Souls (384.36× faster), War Wagons (Mortars) (52.32× faster), War Wagons (43.20× faster)
Loses to, at a similar price: Questing Knights (2.30× slower), Cold One Spear-Riders (2.06× slower), Knights of the White Wolf (1.94× 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 1,100 multiplayer gold.
Who can field it
- Lizardmen · Hexoatl · extended roster
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.
Extended roster: every race above has this unit only through campaign_exclusive rows of units_custom_battle_permissions — CA's note: such units are “filtered out of matchmaking and are generally disabled when unit caps setting is enabled” (“Unable to recruit with unit caps enabled”). So: Custom Battle with Unit caps off, at the multiplayer cost, but not in ranked battles. Race rankings and best-unit lists leave such a unit out for those races.
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.