How much HP do Chosen (Great Weapons) have?

Chosen (Great Weapons) have 10,480 HP across 80 models at Ultra unit size (patch 9.0.4).

How much do Chosen (Great Weapons) cost?

Chosen (Great Weapons) cost 1,350 in the campaign and in multiplayer.

What is the unit key for Chosen (Great Weapons)?

The unit key is wh_main_chs_inf_chosen_1.

Chosen (Great Weapons)

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

Warriors of Chaos

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Chosen (Great Weapons) are Warriors of Chaos melee infantry: 10,480 HP across 80 models, armour 120, melee attack 48, melee defence 46, weapon strength 50. It costs 1,350 in the campaign and in multiplayer. Unit key wh_main_chs_inf_chosen_1. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.

Health

131 per model

10,480

top 15% of class

Armour

120

top 7% of class

Leadership

top 20% of class

Speed

bottom 7% of class

Melee attack

top 11% of class

Melee defence

top 23% of class

Weapon strength

12 base + 38 armour-piercing

top 18% of class

Charge bonus

top 15% of class

Attributes

Hide (forest)
This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.

Upgrades

Can become

Chosen (Halberds), Chosen, Chosen (Great Weapons)Undivided
150 gold
COMPUTED Chosen (Halberds): recruiting it costs 1,400; this unit + the upgrade 1,500 (+100) · upkeep +12 a turn · lasts against Chaos Warriors 110.3 → 183.9 s
COMPUTED Chosen: recruiting it costs 1,250; this unit + the upgrade 1,500 (+250) · upkeep −25 a turn · lasts against Chaos Warriors 110.3 → 250.7 s
Chosen of Khorne (Dual Weapons), Chosen of KhorneKhorne
250 gold
COMPUTED Chosen of Khorne (Dual Weapons): recruiting it costs 1,450; this unit + the upgrade 1,600 (+150) · upkeep +25 a turn · lasts against Chaos Warriors 110.3 → 131 s · its technology: 1,500 research points to reach it (cheapest route)
COMPUTED Chosen of Khorne: recruiting it costs 1,300; this unit + the upgrade 1,600 (+300) · upkeep −13 a turn · lasts against Chaos Warriors 110.3 → 180.1 s · its technology: 1,500 research points to reach it (cheapest route)
Technology: Searing Branding Iron or wh3_dlc20_chs_und_shared_marks_khorne_belakor
Chosen of Nurgle (Great Weapons), Chosen of NurgleNurgle
250 gold
COMPUTED Chosen of Nurgle (Great Weapons): recruiting it costs 1,450; this unit + the upgrade 1,600 (+150) · upkeep +25 a turn · lasts against Chaos Warriors 110.3 → 150.5 s · its technology: 1,500 research points to reach it (cheapest route)
COMPUTED Chosen of Nurgle: recruiting it costs 1,350; this unit + the upgrade 1,600 (+250) · upkeep ±0 a turn · lasts against Chaos Warriors 110.3 → 376.3 s · its technology: 1,500 research points to reach it (cheapest route)
Technology: Rusted Branding Iron or wh3_dlc20_chs_und_shared_marks_nurgle_belakor or wh3_dlc29_chs_glottkin_festus_shared_marks_nurgle
Chosen of Slaanesh (Hellscourges), Chosen of SlaaneshSlaanesh
250 gold
COMPUTED Chosen of Slaanesh (Hellscourges): recruiting it costs 1,500; this unit + the upgrade 1,600 (+100) · upkeep +37 a turn · lasts against Chaos Warriors 110.3 → 362.9 s · its technology: 1,500 research points to reach it (cheapest route)
COMPUTED Chosen of Slaanesh: recruiting it costs 1,350; this unit + the upgrade 1,600 (+250) · upkeep ±0 a turn · lasts against Chaos Warriors 110.3 → 263.9 s · its technology: 1,500 research points to reach it (cheapest route)
Technology: Sensuous Branding Iron or wh3_dlc20_chs_und_shared_marks_slaanesh_belakor
Chosen of Tzeentch (Halberds), Chosen of TzeentchTzeentch
250 gold
COMPUTED Chosen of Tzeentch (Halberds): recruiting it costs 1,500; this unit + the upgrade 1,600 (+100) · upkeep +37 a turn · lasts against Chaos Warriors 110.3 → 201.4 s · its technology: 1,500 research points to reach it (cheapest route)
COMPUTED Chosen of Tzeentch: recruiting it costs 1,350; this unit + the upgrade 1,600 (+250) · upkeep ±0 a turn · lasts against Chaos Warriors 110.3 → 274.6 s · its technology: 1,500 research points to reach it (cheapest route)
Technology: Arcane Branding Iron or wh3_dlc20_chs_und_shared_marks_tzeentch_belakor
Aspiring ChampionsUndivided
750 gold
COMPUTED recruiting it costs 1,100; this unit + the upgrade 2,100 (+1,000) · upkeep −63 a turn · lasts against Chaos Warriors 110.3 → 99.8 s
Putrid Blightkings, Putrid Blightkings (Dual Axes), Putrid Blightkings (Great Weapons)Nurgle
750 gold · needs rank 8 · loses 8 ranks
COMPUTED Putrid Blightkings: recruiting it costs 1,500; this unit + the upgrade 2,100 (+600) · upkeep +37 a turn · lasts against Chaos Warriors 110.3 → 389.5 s · its technology: 1,500 research points to reach it (cheapest route)
COMPUTED Putrid Blightkings (Dual Axes): recruiting it costs 1,600; this unit + the upgrade 2,100 (+500) · upkeep +62 a turn · lasts against Chaos Warriors 110.3 → 155.8 s · its technology: 1,500 research points to reach it (cheapest route)
COMPUTED Putrid Blightkings (Great Weapons): recruiting it costs 1,650; this unit + the upgrade 2,100 (+450) · upkeep +74 a turn · lasts against Chaos Warriors 110.3 → 129.8 s · its technology: 1,500 research points to reach it (cheapest route)
Technology: Rusted Branding Iron or wh3_dlc20_chs_und_shared_marks_nurgle_belakor or wh3_dlc29_chs_glottkin_festus_shared_upgrades

Upgraded from: Chaos Warriors (Great Weapons), Chosen (Halberds), Chaos Warriors, Chaos Warriors (Halberds), Chosen

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. “Lasts”: the whole unit's hit points (a magic barrier included, taken first) ÷ one unit of Chaos Warriors' melee damage per second against it (combat calculator formulas, base cards). Every mark and promotion compared: best Mark of Chaos.

Counters

Good against

Heavily armoured units — 38 of 50 weapon strength armour-piercinge.g. Steam Tank, Blessed Bastiladon (Solar Engine), Rotting Leviathan · Warriors of Chaos: Chaos Knights of Khorne, Chosen of Khorne

Vulnerable to

Bonus vs infantry — infantry-sizede.g. Doom-Flayers, War Mammoth, Feral Mammoth · Warriors of Chaos: Gorebeast Chariots, Chaos Chariots of Khorne
Armour-piercing — armour 120e.g. Warp-Doom Magma-Cannon, Luminark of Hysh, Little Grom · Warriors of Chaos: Chaos Giant, Dragon Ogre Shaggoth
Heavy large units — infantry-sized, mass 160e.g. Dread Maw, Thunderbarge, Steam Tank · Warriors of Chaos: Chaos Giant, Dragon Ogre Shaggoth

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 70.2% of the game's 194 infantry units in melee. Per 1,000 gold: 231.1 damage per second against Chaos Warriors; it lasts 81.7 s against one unit of them.

Beats, at a similar price: Skin Wolves (Armoured) (9.98× faster), Skin Wolves (8.28× faster), Aspiring Champions (4.38× faster)

Loses to, at a similar price: Har Ganeth Executioners (1.46× slower), Bladesingers (1.32× slower), Grave Guard (Great Weapons) (1.32× 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 1,350 multiplayer gold. Warriors of Chaos units ranked.

Match-ups people search for: Chosen (Great Weapons) vs Chosen

Who can field it

Warriors of Chaos · Warhost of the Apocalypse

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.