Crypt Horrors
Monstrous infantry· Monstrous Infantry· Tier 2· 16 models at Ultra size
Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.
Crypt Horrors are Vampire Counts, Undead Legions and Tomb Kings monstrous infantry: 9,952 HP across 16 models, armour 30, melee attack 39, melee defence 28, weapon strength 70. It costs 800 in the campaign and 900 in multiplayer. Unit key wh_main_vmp_mon_crypt_horrors. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
Health
622 per model
9,952
Armour
30
Leadership
50
Speed
50
Melee attack
39
Melee defence
28
Weapon strength
18 base + 52 armour-piercing
70
Charge bonus
30
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.
- Undead
Undead units cannot be routed, but take damage when their Leadership is broken. Undead units also have: Fear and Terror Immunity Undead units may also have their hit points restored by special characters such as the Vampire Counts Necromancer.
Abilities
- RegenerationRegeneration · +20% Weakness to Fire Damage, Replenishes hit points of combatantspassiveRegenerationRegeneration+20% Weakness to Fire DamageReplenishes hit points of combatantsPassiveThere are beings and creatures that can mend bone and knit flesh at an incredible rate. A mighty boon, but one stunted by fire.
- CrumblingDirect Damage · Causes damage to selfpassiveCrumblingDirect DamageCauses damage to selfPassiveThe dead do not rest easily in the Old World. Those summoned by Vampires and Necromancers no longer have mortal concerns - they serve only their master's will.
- DisintegratingDirect Damage · Causes severe damage to selfpassiveDisintegratingDirect DamageCauses severe damage to selfPassiveThe Dark Magic binding has failed. Both flesh and Necromantic energy slough off the subjects, leaving naught but dust.
Counters
Good against
- Heavily armoured units — 52 of 70 weapon strength armour-piercinge.g. Steam Tank, Blessed Bastiladon (Solar Engine), Rotting Leviathan · Vampire Counts: Blood Knights, Drakenhof Templars
- Light infantry-sized units — large, mass 1,500e.g. Exalted Plaguebearers of Nurgle, Zombie Pirate Deckhand Mob, Plaguebearers of Nurgle · Vampire Counts: Zombies, Grave Guard
Vulnerable to
- Bonus vs large — large (cavalry-sized or bigger)e.g. Bone Giant, Feral Troglodon, Warp Lightning Cannons · Vampire Counts: Terrorgheist, Blood Knights (Lances)
- Missile fire — armour 30, no shielde.g. Ratling Guns, Stormfiends (Ratling Cannons), Chameleon Stalkers · Vampire Counts: Sylvanian Crossbowmen, Sylvanian Handgunners
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: Flamers of Tzeentch (5.85× faster), Ushabti (Great Bows) (3.63× faster), Leadbelchers (3.14× faster)
Loses to, at a similar price: Ogre Bulls (Ironfists) (2.52× slower), Chaos Furies (Tzeentch) (2.36× slower), Chaos Furies (Khorne) (2.12× 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 900 multiplayer gold. Vampire Counts units ranked.
Patch changes
Every version of Crypt Horrors
2 units share this name across races (mounts, race versions, renown or faction variants). Differences from the first row are highlighted.
| Version | HP | Models | Armour | Lead. | Speed | MA | MD | WS | Charge | Cost | Upkeep | Unit key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vampire Counts, Undead LegionsMonstrous Infantry | 9,952 | 16 | 30 | 50 | 50 | 39 | 28 | 70 | 30 | 800 | 200 | wh_main_vmp_mon_crypt_horrors |
| Tomb KingsMonstrous Infantry | 12,440 | 20 | 30 | 50 | 50 | 39 | 28 | 70 | 30 | — | — | wh2_dlc09_tmb_mon_crypt_horrors |
Who can field it
- Undead Legions · Host of Nagash
- Vampire Counts · The Drakenhof Conclave
- Tomb Kings · Khemri · 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: Tomb Kings 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.
The game also has 1 summoned or scripted copy of this unit that no building or mercenary pool recruits (wh_main_vmp_mon_crypt_horrors_summoned).
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.