Doomfire Warlocks
Melee cavalry· Magical Cavalry· Tier 3· 60 models at Ultra size
Comes with The Queen & The Crone(Warhammer II)
Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.
Doomfire Warlocks are Dark Elves melee cavalry: 5,520 HP across 60 models, armour 15, melee attack 32, melee defence 28, weapon strength 45. It costs 1,100 in the campaign and in multiplayer. They come with The Queen & The Crone. Unit key wh2_dlc10_def_cav_doomfire_warlocks_0. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
Health
92 per model
5,520
Armour
15
Leadership
65
Speed
92
Melee attack
32
Melee defence
28
Weapon strength
32 base + 13 armour-piercing
45
Charge bonus
40
Attributes
- Vanguard Deployment
This unit can deploy outside the deployment zone.
- Hide (forest)
This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.
Abilities
- Lesser DoomboltBombardment · Good against armour, Causes moderate magical damage…activeLesser DoomboltBombardmentGood against armourCauses moderate magical damageStrong vs a single unitCooldown 90 s · Duration 7 s · 2 uses · Wind-up 3 sThe sky opens and a bolt of burning, pure Chaos black lightning hurtles towards the foe.
- SoulblightHex (Area) · -30 Armour, -25% Armour-Piercing Weapon Damage…activeSoulblightHex (Area)-30 Armour-25% Armour-Piercing Weapon Damage-25% Base Weapon DamageCooldown 90 s · Duration 20 s · 2 uses · Range 35 m · Wind-up 3 sHarnessing the sickly power of Shyish, the Wizard weakens the foe's will to survive the battle.
- 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.
- FrenzyAugment · +10% Charge Bonus, +10 Melee Attack…passiveFrenzyAugment+10% Charge Bonus+10 Melee Attack+10% Armour-Piercing Weapon Damage+10% Base Weapon DamagePassiveSome warriors care not for their own personal safety, and so work themselves into a whirlwind of destruction and mindless violence!
Counters
Good against
- Units with physical resistance — magical melee attackse.g. Hexwraiths, Cairn Wraiths, Syreens · Dark Elves: Sisters of Slaughter, Witch Elves
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
- Magical attacks — physical resistance +40%e.g. Stormfiends (Warpfire Projectors), Warpfire Throwers, Death Globe Bombardiers · Dark Elves: Bloodwrack Shrine, Bloodwrack Medusa
- Missile fire — armour 15, no shielde.g. Ratling Guns, Stormfiends (Ratling Cannons), Chameleon Stalkers · Dark Elves: Shades, Black Ark Corsairs (Handbows)
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: Casket of Souls (337.34× faster), War Wagons (Mortars) (46.80× faster), War Wagons (38.65× faster)
Loses to, at a similar price: Chaos Knights of Tzeentch (7.07× slower), Chaos Knights of Nurgle (5.31× slower), Chaos Knights (4.47× 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 1,100 multiplayer gold. Dark Elf units ranked.
Match-ups people search for: Doomfire Warlocks vs Dark Riders
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.