Dryads
Melee infantry· Creature Infantry· Tier 2· 100 models at Ultra size
Comes with Realm of the Wood Elves(Warhammer I)
Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.
Dryads are Wood Elves and High Elves melee infantry: 7,000 HP across 100 models, armour 60, melee attack 35, melee defence 25, weapon strength 40. It costs 550 in the campaign and in multiplayer. They come with Realm of the Wood Elves. Unit key wh_dlc05_wef_inf_dryads_0. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
Health
70 per model
7,000
Armour
60
Leadership
65
Speed
43
Melee attack
35
Melee defence
25
Weapon strength
35 base + 5 armour-piercing
40
Charge bonus
18
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.
- Woodsman
This unit can pass through trees.
- Immune to Psychology
The unit is immune to psychological attacks (Fear & Terror).
Upgrades
Bought with Gold
Aspect of the Birch
Birch Aspect · 150 Gold · only Argwylon, Wargrove of Woe
- Armour-piercing weapon damage: +8
- Physical resistance: -10%
- Speed: +10%
Aspect of the Oak
Oak Aspect · 150 Gold · only Argwylon, Wargrove of Woe
- Attribute: Charge Defence vs Large
- Armour: +20
- Speed: -10%
Aspect of the Willow
Willow Aspect · 150 Gold · only Argwylon, Wargrove of Woe
- Armour-piercing weapon damage: -3
- Bonus vs Infantry: +6
- Melee defence: +6
Campaign only, from the game's tables (unit_upgrade_to_unit_groups, unit_purchasable_effects), patch 9.0.4. Costs are before skills and technologies that make upgrades cheaper.
Counters
Good against
- Units with physical resistance — magical melee attackse.g. Hexwraiths, Cairn Wraiths, Syreens · Wood Elves: Sisters of the Thorn, Ceithin-Har
Vulnerable to
- Bonus vs infantry — infantry-sizede.g. Doom-Flayers, War Mammoth, Feral Mammoth · Wood Elves: Bladesingers, Wardancers
- Magical attacks — physical resistance +20%e.g. Stormfiends (Warpfire Projectors), Warpfire Throwers, Death Globe Bombardiers · Wood Elves: Deepwood Scouts (Swiftshiver Shards), Glade Guard (Hagbane Tips)
- Flaming attacks — fire weakness −25%e.g. Chameleon Stalkers, Blessed Chameleon Stalkers, Stormfiends (Warpfire Projectors) · Wood Elves: Glade Guard (Starfire Shafts)
- Heavy large units — infantry-sized, mass 140e.g. Dread Maw, Thunderbarge, Steam Tank · Wood Elves: Malevolent Treeman, Treeman
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: Grail Reliquae (146.78× faster), Eshin Triads (5.17× faster), Warp-Grinders (4.55× faster)
Loses to, at a similar price: Longbeards (1.63× slower), Marauders of Tzeentch (1.54× slower), Chaos Dwarf Warriors (1.52× 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 550 multiplayer gold. Wood Elf units ranked.
Every version of Dryads
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wood ElvesCreature Infantry | 7,000 | 100 | 60 | 65 | 43 | 35 | 25 | 40 | 18 | 550 | 138 | wh_dlc05_wef_inf_dryads_0 |
| High ElvesCreature Infantry | 7,000 | 100 | 60 | 65 | 43 | 35 | 25 | 40 | 18 | 550 | 138 | wh2_dlc10_hef_inf_dryads_0 |
Who can field it
- Wood Elves · Talsyn
- High Elves · Lothern · 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: High Elves 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.