How much HP do Dire Wolves have?

Dire Wolves have 6,080 HP across 80 models at Ultra unit size (patch 9.0.4).

How much do Dire Wolves cost?

Dire Wolves cost 500 in the campaign and 475 in multiplayer.

What is the unit key for Dire Wolves?

The unit key is wh_main_vmp_mon_dire_wolves; other versions: wh2_dlc09_tmb_mon_dire_wolves.

Dire Wolves

War beast· War Beasts· Tier 2· 80 models at Ultra size

Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.

Dire Wolves are Vampire Counts, Undead Legions and Tomb Kings war beast: 6,080 HP across 80 models, armour 0, melee attack 26, melee defence 14, weapon strength 22. It costs 500 in the campaign and 475 in multiplayer. Unit key wh_main_vmp_mon_dire_wolves. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.

Health

76 per model

6,080

bottom 48% of class

Armour

bottom 1% of class

Leadership

bottom 11% of class

Speed

bottom 36% of class

Melee attack

bottom 14% of class

Melee defence

bottom 2% of class

Weapon strength

19 base + 3 armour-piercing

bottom 7% of class

Charge bonus

top 48% of class

Campaign cost: 500
Multiplayer cost: 475
Upkeep: 125
Mass: 150

Unit key (for console commands)

wh_main_vmp_mon_dire_wolves

Compare with other units

Rank

Leadership: 35
Melee attack: 26
Melee defence: 14
Experience: —

Rank 0 (recruited); the stat card stays at rank 0. Per rank: base^growth_rate × growth_scalar (unit_experience_bonuses, unit_experience_thresholds), patch 9.0.4. Worth in gold: the price at which the ranked unit breaks even against rank-0 copies of itself (combat calculator formulas).

Recruited from

The first building level that unlocks it (table building_units_allowed), patch 9.0.4. Unlock (computed): every level of that chain up to it (building_levels create_cost, create_time, one after another) and the main building level it needs, before cost reductions.

Base values at Ultra unit size, rank 0, no skills or items — patch 9.0.4. Hover a number for the game table it comes from. Bars are computed on this site: where the unit sits among war beast units players can field.

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.
Vanguard Deployment
This unit can deploy outside the deployment zone.
Hide (forest)
This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.
Strider
Speed and combat penalties caused by terrain are ignored by this unit.
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

CrumblingDirect Damage · Causes damage to selfpassive
DisintegratingDirect Damage · Causes severe damage to selfpassive

Counters

Vulnerable to

Bonus vs infantry — infantry-sizede.g. Doom-Flayers, War Mammoth, Feral Mammoth · Vampire Counts: Coven Throne, Black Coach
Missile fire — armour 0, no shielde.g. Ratling Guns, Stormfiends (Ratling Cannons), Chameleon Stalkers · Vampire Counts: Sylvanian Crossbowmen, Sylvanian Handgunners
Heavy large units — infantry-sized, mass 150e.g. Dread Maw, Thunderbarge, Steam Tank · Vampire Counts: Zombie Dragon, Black Coach

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 30% of the game's 21 war beasts units in melee. Per 1,000 gold: 48.2 damage per second against Chaos Warriors; it lasts 25 s against one unit of them.

Beats, at a similar price: Deck Droppers (Bombers) (6.64× faster), Deck Droppers (5.37× faster), Wolf Rats (1.22× faster)

Loses to, at a similar price: Carrion (4.05× slower), Fell Bats (2.84× slower), Squig Herd (2.76× 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 475 multiplayer gold. Vampire Counts units ranked.

Patch changes

Patch 9.0wh_main_vmp_mon_dire_wolves

Custom battle: now in the Undead Legions roster

Every version of Dire Wolves

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 LegionsWar Beasts	6,080	80	0	35	95	26	14	22	28	500	125	`wh_main_vmp_mon_dire_wolves`
Tomb KingsWar Beasts	6,080	80	0	40	116	31	14	26	40	—	—	`wh2_dlc09_tmb_mon_dire_wolves`

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.

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.