Eldred's Guard (Spearmen – Shields)
Melee infantry· Spear Infantry· Tier 2· 120 models at Ultra size
Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.
Eldred's Guard (Spearmen – Shields) are Empire melee infantry: 8,280 HP across 120 models, armour 70, melee attack 20, melee defence 42, weapon strength 25. It costs 600 in the campaign and in multiplayer. Unit key wh2_dlc13_emp_inf_spearmen_ror_0. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
Health
69 per model
8,280
Armour
shield blocks 60% of small-arms missiles from the front (not artillery)
70
Leadership
60
Speed
30
Melee attack
20
Melee defence
42
Weapon strength
19 base + 6 armour-piercing, +15 vs large
25
Charge bonus
4
Attributes
- Expert Charge Defence
When bracing, this unit negates the charge bonus of any attacker.
- Charge Reflection
When bracing, this unit causes additional damage when attacking charging enemies.
- 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.
Counters
Good against
- Large units — bonus vs large 15e.g. Rogue Idol, Dread Saurian, Khemric Titan · The Empire: Amethyst Land Ship, Land Ship
Vulnerable to
- Bonus vs infantry — infantry-sizede.g. Doom-Flayers, War Mammoth, Feral Mammoth · The Empire: Steam Tank, Greatswords
- Heavy large units — infantry-sized, mass 100e.g. Dread Maw, Thunderbarge, Thundertusk · The Empire: Steam Tank, Amethyst Land Ship
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: Warp-Grinders (6.00× faster), Eshin Triads (2.41× faster), Flagellants (2.09× faster)
Loses to, at a similar price: Chaos Warriors (3.50× slower), Longbeards (3.28× slower), Chaos Dwarf Warriors (2.86× 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 600 multiplayer gold.
Who can field it
- The Empire · Reikland · 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: every race above 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.