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

Epidemius

Lord· Lord· 1 model at Ultra size

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Epidemius is a legendary lord of Nurgle, leading Tallymen of Pestilence at the start of a campaign: 8,000 HP, armour 80, melee attack 50, melee defence 50, weapon strength 480. It costs 1,050 in the campaign and 1,100 in multiplayer. Beating this lord in battle can earn the defeat trait Enumerator's End. Unit key wh3_dlc25_nur_cha_epidemius. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.

Health

8,000

top 16% of class

Armour

80

top 49% of class

Leadership

80

top 38% of class

Speed

28

bottom 1% of class

Melee attack

50

top 47% of class

Melee defence

50

top 31% of class

Weapon strength

170 base + 310 armour-piercing

480

top 26% of class

Charge bonus

20

bottom 9% of class

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.

  • Daemonic

    Daemonic units cannot be routed, but take damage when their Leadership is low. Daemonic units also have: Physical Resistance Fear and Terror Immunity

  • 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.

Abilities

  • The Tallyman's BladesSummon Unit · Summons a unit of Exalted Plaguebearers, Summoned units degrade over timeactive
  • Epidemic OutburstExplosion · Allows chance to escape melee, Explosion does not affect friendly troops…active
  • Tally of PestilenceAugment (Area) · +20 Melee Attack, +20% Physical Resistance…passive
  • Cloud of FliesAugment · +9 Melee Defencepassive
  • Daemonic InstabilityDirect Damage · Causes damage to selfpassive
  • Banished!Direct Damage · Causes severe damage to selfpassive
  • WoundsHex · -10% Speed, -20% Armour-Piercing Weapon Damage…passive

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

Defeat trait

Beat Epidemius in battle and your lord can earn the trait

Enumerator's End

  • Attribute: Immune to Contact Effects
  • Research rate: +10

Why is Six afraid of Seven? Because Seven eight Nine...

All legendary lord defeat traits

Epidemius skill tree

46 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 Epidemius's skills

  1. Hates Tzeentch
  2. Slime Trail
  3. Locus of Virulence
  4. Bloated Carcass
  5. Army of Renown
  6. Mentor
  1. Tally of Pestilence
  2. The Tallyman's Host
  3. Pox Seedling
  4. Renitent
  5. Plague Lord's Favourite
  6. Perpetual Pestilence
  1. Epidemic Outburst
  2. Devastating Charge
  3. Thick-Skinned
  4. Hard to Hit
  5. Deadly Blade
  6. Epidemic Outbreak
  7. Wound-Maker
  8. Scarred Veteran
  9. Indomitable
  10. Blade Shield
  11. Pestilent Decay
  1. Inspiring Presence
  2. Rot-Eaters
  3. Armour of Malady
  4. Nauseating Mutations
  5. Bubonic Buzzers
  6. Filth Incarnate
  7. Blight Swarm
  8. Terminal Infection
  9. Cankerous Spread
  10. Airborne Agues
  11. Putrid Resistance
  12. Virulent Contagion
  1. Route Marcher
  2. Serve or Die
  3. Looter
  4. Blessed by Blight
  5. Corruption
  6. Unholy Resilience
  7. Lightning Strike
  8. Despoilers
  9. Relentless Advance
  10. Pestilential Spawnings
  11. Renowned & Feared

Who can field it

  • Nurgle · Poxmakers of Nurgle

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.