Cold One Dread Knights
Melee cavalry· Cold One Cavalry· Tier 3· 48 models at Ultra size
Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.
Cold One Dread Knights are Dark Elves melee cavalry: 7,200 HP across 48 models, armour 120, melee attack 40, melee defence 44, weapon strength 48. It costs 1,300 in the campaign and 1,350 in multiplayer. Unit key wh2_main_def_cav_cold_one_knights_1. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
Health
150 per model
7,200
Armour
shield blocks 35% of small-arms missiles from the front (not artillery)
120
Leadership
80
Speed
66
Melee attack
40
Melee defence
44
Weapon strength
14 base + 34 armour-piercing
48
Charge bonus
40
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.
- Hide (forest)
This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.
Abilities
- Murderous ProwessAugment · +20% Armour-Piercing Missile Damage, +25% Charge Bonus…passiveMurderous ProwessAugment+20% Armour-Piercing Missile Damage+25% Charge Bonus+25% Melee Attack+15 LeadershipPassive · Duration 90 s · 1 useSlaughter! There is no greater glorification of Khaine, the God of Murder, and no more popular form of worship – or indeed daily exercise – amongst the Dark Elves.
- Primal InstinctsAugment · +15% Charge Bonus, +5 Melee Attack…passivePrimal InstinctsAugment+15% Charge Bonus+5 Melee Attack+5% Physical ResistancePassiveWhen under pressure, the primal instincts of these natural predators take over, improving their potential in combat.
Counters
Good against
- Heavily armoured units — 34 of 48 weapon strength armour-piercinge.g. Steam Tank, Blessed Bastiladon (Solar Engine), Rotting Leviathan · Dark Elves: Cold One Chariots, Black Guard of Naggarond
- Light infantry-sized units — large, mass 1,600e.g. Exalted Plaguebearers of Nurgle, Zombies, Zombie Pirate Deckhand Mob · Dark Elves: Black Guard of Naggarond, Har Ganeth Executioners
Vulnerable to
- Bonus vs large — large (cavalry-sized or bigger)e.g. Bone Giant, Feral Troglodon, Warp Lightning Cannons · Dark Elves: Reaper Bolt Throwers, Scourgerunner Chariots
- Armour-piercing — armour 120e.g. Warp-Doom Magma-Cannon, Luminark of Hysh, Little Grom · Dark Elves: Black Dragon, Kharibdyss
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: Luminark of Hysh (3830.45× faster), Casket of Souls (1511.23× faster), War Wagons (Mortars) (236.14× faster)
Loses to, at a similar price: Questing Knights (1.66× slower), Cold One Spear-Riders (1.37× slower), Mournfang Cavalry (Great Weapons) (1.36× 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. Dark Elf units ranked.
Who can field it
- Dark Elves · Naggarond
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.