Fiends of Slaanesh
Monstrous infantry· Monstrous Infantry· Tier 3· 16 models at Ultra size
Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.
Fiends of Slaanesh are Slaanesh, Daemons of Chaos and Warriors of Chaos monstrous infantry: 8,128 HP across 16 models, armour 30, melee attack 36, melee defence 36, weapon strength 80. It costs 1,325 in the campaign (Warriors of Chaos factions pay 1,950) and 1,325 in multiplayer. Unit key wh3_main_sla_mon_fiends_of_slaanesh_0. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
Health
508 per model
8,128
Armour
30
Leadership
70
Speed
95
Melee attack
36
Melee defence
36
Weapon strength
25 base + 55 armour-piercing
80
Charge bonus
38
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
- Devastating Flanker
Entities with this attribute double their charge bonus when attacking the rear or flank of an entity.
- Hide (forest)
This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.
- Strider
Speed and combat penalties caused by terrain are ignored by this unit.
Abilities
- Daemonic InstabilityDirect Damage · Causes damage to selfpassiveDaemonic InstabilityDirect DamageCauses damage to selfPassiveAs the Daemon's courage falters, their mortal form crumbles and fades from this reality.
- Banished!Direct Damage · Causes severe damage to selfpassiveBanished!Direct DamageCauses severe damage to selfPassiveOnce the Daemon's courage has failed them, they will fall back through the portal to the Chaos Realm whence they belong.
Counters
Good against
- Heavily armoured units — 55 of 80 weapon strength armour-piercinge.g. Steam Tank, Blessed Bastiladon (Solar Engine), Rotting Leviathan
- Units with physical resistance — magical melee attackse.g. Hexwraiths, Cairn Wraiths, Syreens · Slaanesh: Pleasureseekers, Champions Of Slaanesh
- Light infantry-sized units — large, mass 1,300e.g. Exalted Plaguebearers of Nurgle, Zombies, Zombie Pirate Deckhand Mob · Slaanesh: Devoted Marauders of Slaanesh, Slaangors
Vulnerable to
- Bonus vs large — large (cavalry-sized or bigger)e.g. Bone Giant, Feral Troglodon, Warp Lightning Cannons · Slaanesh: Soul Grinder of Slaanesh, Devoted Marauders of Slaanesh (Spears)
- Magical attacks — physical resistance +20%e.g. Stormfiends (Warpfire Projectors), Warpfire Throwers, Death Globe Bombardiers · Slaanesh: Soul Grinder of Slaanesh, Keeper of Secrets
- Missile fire — armour 30, no shielde.g. Ratling Guns, Stormfiends (Ratling Cannons), Chameleon Stalkers · Slaanesh: Devotees of Slaanesh (Crossbows)
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: Changebringers (13.40× faster), Ushabti (Great Bows) (2.24× faster), Leadbelchers (1.95× faster)
Loses to, at a similar price: Plague Ogres (Great Weapons) (4.56× slower), Maneaters (Great Weapons) (3.71× slower), Spawn of Tzeentch (3.30× 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 1,325 multiplayer gold. Slaanesh units ranked.
Patch changes
- Melee attack interval4 s → 4.4 s(+0.4)
Who can field it
- Daemons of Chaos · Legion of Chaos
- Slaanesh · Seducers of Slaanesh
- Warriors of Chaos · Warhost of the Apocalypse · 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: Warriors of Chaos 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.
The campaign also recruits 1 copy of this unit that no faction fields in custom battles (wh3_dlc27_sla_mon_fiends_of_slaanesh_dechala: from a mercenary pool).
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.