How much HP do Cairn Wraiths have?

Cairn Wraiths have 6,720 HP across 60 models at Ultra unit size (patch 9.0.4).

How much do Cairn Wraiths cost?

Cairn Wraiths cost 850 in the campaign and in multiplayer.

What is the unit key for Cairn Wraiths?

The unit key is wh_main_vmp_inf_cairn_wraiths; other versions: wh2_dlc09_tmb_inf_cairn_wraiths.

Cairn Wraiths

Melee infantry· Scythe Infantry· Tier 2· 60 models at Ultra size

Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.

Cairn Wraiths are Vampire Counts, Undead Legions and Tomb Kings melee infantry: 6,720 HP across 60 models, armour 0, melee attack 34, melee defence 30, weapon strength 44. It costs 850 in the campaign and in multiplayer. Unit key wh_main_vmp_inf_cairn_wraiths. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.

Health

112 per model

6,720

bottom 4% of class

Armour

bottom 1% of class

Leadership

bottom 11% of class

Speed

top 7% of class

Melee attack

bottom 48% of class

Melee defence

bottom 34% of class

Weapon strength

0 base + 44 armour-piercing

top 28% of class

Charge bonus

top 19% of class

Campaign cost: 850
Multiplayer cost: 850
Upkeep: 213
Mass: 90

Unit key (for console commands)

wh_main_vmp_inf_cairn_wraiths

Compare with other units

Rank

Leadership: 50
Melee attack: 34
Melee defence: 30
Experience: —

Rank 0 (recruited); the stat card stays at rank 0. Per rank: base^growth_rate × growth_scalar (unit_experience_bonuses, unit_experience_thresholds), patch 9.0.4. Worth in gold: the price at which the ranked unit breaks even against rank-0 copies of itself (combat calculator formulas).

Recruited from

The first building level that unlocks it (table building_units_allowed), patch 9.0.4. Unlock (computed): every level of that chain up to it (building_levels create_cost, create_time, one after another) and the main building level it needs, before cost reductions.

Physical resistance +55%

Base values at Ultra unit size, rank 0, no skills or items — patch 9.0.4. Hover a number for the game table it comes from. Bars are computed on this site: where the unit sits among melee infantry units players can field.

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.
Causes Terror
This unit can cause terror, making its melee target rout for a short time. Units that cause terror are immune to terror and fear themselves.
Hide (forest)
This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.
Strider
Speed and combat penalties caused by terrain are ignored by this unit.
Undead
Undead units cannot be routed, but take damage when their Leadership is broken. Undead units also have: Fear and Terror Immunity Undead units may also have their hit points restored by special characters such as the Vampire Counts Necromancer.

Abilities

CrumblingDirect Damage · Causes damage to selfpassive
DisintegratingDirect Damage · Causes severe damage to selfpassive

Counters

Good against

Heavily armoured units — 44 of 44 weapon strength armour-piercinge.g. Steam Tank, Blessed Bastiladon (Solar Engine), Rotting Leviathan · Vampire Counts: Blood Knights, Drakenhof Templars
Units with physical resistance — magical melee attackse.g. Syreens, Sisters of the Thorn, Doomfire Warlocks · Vampire Counts: Hexwraiths, Spirit Host

Vulnerable to

Bonus vs infantry — infantry-sizede.g. Doom-Flayers, War Mammoth, Feral Mammoth · Vampire Counts: Coven Throne, Black Coach
Magical attacks — physical resistance +55%e.g. Stormfiends (Warpfire Projectors), Warpfire Throwers, Death Globe Bombardiers · Vampire Counts: Coven Throne, Black Coach
Missile fire — armour 0, no shielde.g. Ratling Guns, Stormfiends (Ratling Cannons), Chameleon Stalkers · Vampire Counts: Sylvanian Crossbowmen, Sylvanian Handgunners
Heavy large units — infantry-sized, mass 90e.g. Dread Maw, Thunderbarge, Steam Tank · Vampire Counts: Zombie Dragon, Black Coach

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 18.4% of the game's 194 infantry units in melee. Per 1,000 gold: 180.6 damage per second against Chaos Warriors; it lasts 47.6 s against one unit of them.

Beats, at a similar price: Skin Wolves (Armoured) (6.37× faster), Skin Wolves (4.75× faster), Eshin Triads (2.69× faster)

Loses to, at a similar price: Plaguebearers of Nurgle (4.71× slower), Exalted Plaguebearers of Nurgle (4.33× slower), Skullreapers (4.10× 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 850 multiplayer gold. Vampire Counts units ranked.

Patch changes

Patch 9.0wh_main_vmp_inf_cairn_wraiths

Custom battle: now in the Undead Legions roster

Patch 9.0wh2_dlc09_tmb_inf_cairn_wraiths

New unit in this patch.

Every version of Cairn Wraiths

2 units share this name across races (mounts, race versions, renown or faction variants). Differences from the first row are highlighted.

Version	HP	Models	Armour	Lead.	Speed	MA	MD	WS	Charge	Cost	Upkeep	Unit key
Vampire Counts, Undead LegionsScythe Infantry	6,720	60	0	50	48	34	30	44	30	850	213	`wh_main_vmp_inf_cairn_wraiths`
Tomb KingsScythe Infantry	6,720	60	0	50	48	42	34	44	40	—	—	`wh2_dlc09_tmb_inf_cairn_wraiths`

Who can field it

Undead Legions · Host of Nagash
Vampire Counts · The Drakenhof Conclave
Tomb Kings · Khemri · 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: Tomb Kings 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.

The game also has 3 summoned or scripted copies of this unit that no building or mercenary pool recruits (wh_dlc29_vmp_inf_cairn_wraiths_summoned, wh_dlc29_vmp_inf_cairn_wraiths_summoned_upgraded_0, wh_dlc29_vmp_inf_cairn_wraiths_summoned_upgraded_1).

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.