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

Cultist of Slaanesh

Hero· Melee Specialist· 1 model at Ultra size

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Cultist of Slaanesh is Slaanesh hero: 3,688 HP, armour 25, melee attack 40, melee defence 55, weapon strength 400. It costs 1,000 in the campaign and 650 in multiplayer. Unit key wh3_main_sla_cha_cultist_0. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.

Health

3,688

bottom 15% of class

Armour

25

bottom 17% of class

Leadership

65

top 50% of class

Speed

44

bottom 36% of class

Melee attack

40

bottom 48% of class

Melee defence

55

top 6% of class

Weapon strength

280 base + 120 armour-piercing, +25 vs infantry

400

top 33% of class

Charge bonus

30

bottom 29% of class

Attributes

  • Devastating Flanker

    Entities with this attribute double their charge bonus when attacking the rear or flank of an entity.

  • Encourage

    This unit provides a leadership bonus to nearby allies. Units within range of both the Lord's aura and an encouraging unit will receive the larger of the two bonuses.

  • Hide (forest)

    This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.

  • Immune to Psychology

    The unit is immune to psychological attacks (Fear & Terror).

  • Mark of Slaanesh

    A unit with the Mark of Slaanesh has: Immune to Psychology Attribute Strider Attribute Increased Physical Resistance Increased Speed

  • Strider

    Speed and combat penalties caused by terrain are ignored by this unit.

Abilities

  • Gate of SlaaneshSummon Unit · Summons a unit of Daemonettes, Summoned units degrade over timeactive
  • WoundsHex · -10% Speed, -20% Armour-Piercing Weapon Damage…passive
  • Deadly OnslaughtAugment · +60% Charge Bonus, +25% Armour-Piercing Weapon Damage…active
  • SlipperyAugment · +25% Speed, +24 Melee Defenceactive

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

Cultist of Slaanesh skill tree

29 skills, line by line as the game lays them out. Hover a skill for the rank it unlocks at and its effects at each level.

Plan Cultist of Slaanesh's skills

  1. Chaos Steed
  2. Chaos Warshrine
  3. Gate of Slaanesh
  4. Greater Gate of Slaanesh
  5. Supple & Spry
  6. Hates Khorne
  7. Immortality
  8. Mentor
  1. Mistress of Disciples
  2. The Sweetness of Steel
  3. Behind Adoring Eyes
  4. Bend the Mind, Bend the Flesh
  1. Rapid Ruination
  2. Devastating Charge
  3. Thick-Skinned
  4. Hard to Hit
  5. Deadly Blade
  6. Slippery
  7. Wound-Maker
  8. Scarred Veteran
  9. Indomitable
  10. Blade Shield
  11. Deadly Onslaught
  1. Increase Mobility
  2. Spread Corruption
  3. Establish Cult
  4. Wound
  5. Hinder Replenishment
  6. Specialist

Every version of Cultist of Slaanesh

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

VersionHPModelsArmourLead.SpeedMAMDWSChargeCostUpkeepUnit key
SlaaneshMelee Specialist3,68812565444055400301,000250wh3_main_sla_cha_cultist_0
SlaaneshMelee Specialist4,09615565834055400451,000250wh3_main_sla_cha_cultist_1
SlaaneshMelee Specialist11,25016065433530375253,000300wh3_dlc20_chs_cha_cultist_msla_warshrine

Who can field it

  • Slaanesh · Seducers of Slaanesh

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.