Celestial Dragon Crossbows
Missile infantry· Missile Infantry· Tier 3· 80 models at Ultra size
Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.
Celestial Dragon Crossbows are Grand Cathay missile infantry: 7,040 HP across 80 models, armour 95, melee attack 26, melee defence 32, weapon strength 33, range 160 m, missile damage 2,092 per 10 s for the whole unit. It costs 1,050 in the campaign and 1,000 in multiplayer. Unit key wh3_main_cth_inf_dragon_guard_crossbowmen_0. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
Health
88 per model
7,040
Armour
shield blocks 35% of small-arms missiles from the front (not artillery)
95
Leadership
62
Speed
28
Melee attack
26
Melee defence
32
Weapon strength
24 base + 9 armour-piercing
33
Charge bonus
8
Ranged
Range
160 m
Ammunition
22
Missile damage
5 base + 12 AP, 2 projectiles per shot
17
Reload time
13 s
Damage per 10 s
26
Attributes
- Hide (forest)
This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.
- Yin
This unit counts as a Yin unit for the purpose of Battle Harmony proximity.
Abilities
- Battle Harmony: YinAugment · +4% Speed, +4 Leadership…passiveBattle Harmony: YinAugment+4% Speed+4 Leadership+12 Reload SkillEffect intensity increases by highest nearby Harmony multiplier on a unit.Activates when within 60 metres of a Yang unit.PassiveThere must be balance in all things: dark and light, moon and sun, female and male.
Counters
Good against
- Heavily armoured units — 12 of 17 missile damage armour-piercinge.g. Steam Tank, Blessed Bastiladon (Solar Engine), Rotting Leviathan · Grand Cathay: Great Longma Riders, Terracotta Sentinel
- Lightly armoured units without shields — 2,092 missile damage per 10 s (whole unit)e.g. Curs'd Ettin, Exalted Plaguebearers of Nurgle, Zombies · Grand Cathay: Peasant Long Spearmen, Tiger Warriors
Vulnerable to
- Bonus vs infantry — infantry-sizede.g. Doom-Flayers, War Mammoth, Feral Mammoth
- Heavy large units — infantry-sized, mass 150e.g. Dread Maw, Thunderbarge, Steam Tank · Grand Cathay: Terracotta Sentinel, Zhangu War Drum
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
- Grand Cathay · The Northern Provinces
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.