Eternal Guard (Shields)
Melee infantry· Spear 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.
Eternal Guard (Shields) are Wood Elves melee infantry: 7,200 HP across 100 models, armour 40, melee attack 26, melee defence 44, weapon strength 24. It costs 550 in the campaign and in multiplayer. They come with Realm of the Wood Elves. Unit key wh_dlc05_wef_inf_eternal_guard_1. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
Health
72 per model
7,200
Armour
shield blocks 55% of small-arms missiles from the front (not artillery)
40
Leadership
80
Speed
33
Melee attack
26
Melee defence
44
Weapon strength
4 base + 20 armour-piercing, +15 vs large
24
Charge bonus
6
Attributes
- Charge Defence vs. Large
When bracing, this unit negates the charge bonus of any large attacker.
- Charge Reflection
When bracing, this unit causes additional damage when attacking charging enemies.
- Hide (forest)
This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.
- Woodsman
This unit can pass through trees.
Counters
Good against
- Large units — bonus vs large 15e.g. Rogue Idol, Dread Saurian, Khemric Titan · Wood Elves: Malevolent Treeman, Treeman
- Heavily armoured units — 20 of 24 weapon strength armour-piercinge.g. Steam Tank, Blessed Bastiladon (Solar Engine), Rotting Leviathan · Wood Elves: Malevolent Treeman, Treeman
Vulnerable to
- Bonus vs infantry — infantry-sizede.g. Doom-Flayers, War Mammoth, Feral Mammoth · Wood Elves: Bladesingers, Wardancers
- Heavy large units — infantry-sized, mass 100e.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 (320.91× faster), Warp-Grinders (9.68× faster), Eshin Triads (2.68× faster)
Loses to, at a similar price: Hobgoblin Cutthroats (2.18× slower), Marauders of Tzeentch (2.08× slower), Marauders of Nurgle (2.01× 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.
Who can field it
- Wood Elves · Talsyn
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.
The game also has 1 summoned or scripted copy of this unit that no building or mercenary pool recruits (wh_dlc05_wef_inf_eternal_guard_1_qb).
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.