Unofficial fan reference · game data patch 9.0.4 (Oct 15, 2026)
Cockatrice unit card

Cockatrice

Monster· Flying Monster· Tier 3· 1 model at Ultra size

Comes with Shadows of Change(Warhammer III)

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Cockatrice is Tzeentch, Warriors of Chaos and Beastmen monster: 6,120 HP, a magic barrier of 800 on top, armour 35, melee attack 46, melee defence 38, weapon strength 420. It costs 1,100 in the campaign and 1,050 in multiplayer. It comes with Shadows of Change. Unit key wh3_dlc24_tze_mon_cockatrice. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.

Health

6,120

bottom 12% of class

Barrier

+13% on top of health, taken first

800

Armour

35

bottom 11% of class

Leadership

60

bottom 10% of class

Speed

90

top 25% of class

Melee attack

46

bottom 42% of class

Melee defence

38

top 49% of class

Weapon strength

125 base + 295 armour-piercing

420

bottom 18% of class

Charge bonus

40

bottom 29% of class

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.

  • Can Fly

    This unit can fly.

Abilities

  • Petrifying GazeHex · -25% Speed, -50% Speed…active
  • WoundsHex · -10% Speed, -20% Armour-Piercing Weapon Damage…passive

Counters

Good against

Vulnerable to

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 67.9% of the game's 99 monsters units in melee. Per 1,000 gold: 28.7 damage per second against Chaos Warriors; it lasts 27.4 s against one unit of them.

Beats, at a similar price: Cauldron of a Thousand Poxes (9.29× faster), Exalted Flamer of Tzeentch (6.43× faster), Bastiladon (Solar Engine) (4.18× faster)

Loses to, at a similar price: Dread Maw (1.31× slower), Feral Stegadon (1.21× slower), Mangler Squigs (1.15× 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 1,050 multiplayer gold. Tzeentch units ranked.

Every version of Cockatrice

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

VersionHPModelsArmourLead.SpeedMAMDWSChargeCostUpkeepUnit key
Tzeentch, Warriors of ChaosFlying Monster6,12013560904638420401,100275wh3_dlc24_tze_mon_cockatrice
BeastmenFlying Monster6,1201356090463842040——wh3_dlc24_bst_mon_cockatrice

Who can field it

  • Tzeentch · Oracles of Tzeentch
  • Warriors of Chaos · Warhost of the Apocalypse
  • Beastmen · Warherd of the One-Eye

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.

The campaign also recruits 1 copy of this unit that no faction fields in custom battles (wh3_dlc27_tze_mon_cockatrice_monst_arcanum_reward: from a mercenary pool). The game has 1 summoned or scripted copy of this unit that no building or mercenary pool recruits (wh3_dlc27_bst_mon_cockatrice).

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.