Cave Bats
War beast· Flying War Beasts· Tier 1· 60 models at Ultra size
Comes with Realm of the Wood Elves(Warhammer I)
Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.
Cave Bats are Wood Elves and Kislev war beast: 4,200 HP across 60 models, armour 0, melee attack 19, melee defence 44, weapon strength 26. It costs 350 in the campaign and in multiplayer. They come with Realm of the Wood Elves. Unit key wh2_dlc16_wef_mon_cave_bats. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
Health
70 per model
4,200
Armour
0
Leadership
50
Speed
110
Melee attack
19
Melee defence
44
Weapon strength
20 base + 6 armour-piercing
26
Charge bonus
6
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.
- Expendable
Witnessing friendly expendable units rout does not reduce other units' leadership, unless they are themselves expendable.
- Can Fly
This unit can fly.
- Vanguard Deployment
This unit can deploy outside the deployment zone.
- Hide (forest)
This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.
Counters
Vulnerable to
- Bonus vs infantry — infantry-sizede.g. Doom-Flayers, War Mammoth, Feral Mammoth · Wood Elves: Bladesingers, Wardancers
- Missile fire — armour 0, no shielde.g. Ratling Guns, Stormfiends (Ratling Cannons), Chameleon Stalkers · Wood Elves: Deepwood Scouts (Swiftshiver Shards), Sisters of the Thorn
- Heavy large units — infantry-sized, mass 150e.g. Dread Maw, Thunderbarge, Steam Tank · Wood Elves: Malevolent Treeman, Treeman
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: Deck Droppers (14.88× faster), Chaos Warhounds of Khorne (2.14× faster), Chaos Warhounds (Poison) (2.01× faster)
Loses to, at a similar price: Carrion (2.24× slower), Squig Herd (1.27× 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 350 multiplayer gold.
Who can field it
- Kislev · The Ice Court · extended roster
- Wood Elves · Talsyn · 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.