Great Eagle
Monster· Flying Monster· Tier 2· 1 model at Ultra size
Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.
Great Eagle is High Elves and Wood Elves monster: 4,663 HP, armour 30, melee attack 44, melee defence 30, weapon strength 390. It costs 750 in the campaign and in multiplayer. Unit key wh2_main_hef_mon_great_eagle. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
Health
4,663
Armour
30
Leadership
60
Speed
110
Melee attack
44
Melee defence
30
Weapon strength
234 base + 156 armour-piercing
390
Charge bonus
62
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.
- Can Fly
This unit can fly.
Abilities
- WoundsHex · -10% Speed, -20% Armour-Piercing Weapon Damage…passiveWoundsHex-10% Speed-20% Armour-Piercing Weapon Damage-20% Base Weapon DamagePassiveEven the greatest foes can be laid low with terrible injuries, and the greater the damage done, the less able they will be to effectively continue the fray.
Counters
Good against
- Light infantry-sized units — large, mass 1,300e.g. Exalted Plaguebearers of Nurgle, Zombies, Zombie Pirate Deckhand Mob · High Elves: Athel Tamarha Faithbearers, Phoenix Guard
Vulnerable to
- Bonus vs large — large (cavalry-sized or bigger)e.g. Bone Giant, Feral Troglodon, Warp Lightning Cannons · High Elves: Eagle Claw Bolt Throwers, Merwyrm
- Missile fire — armour 30, no shielde.g. Ratling Guns, Stormfiends (Ratling Cannons), Chameleon Stalkers · High Elves: Sisters of Avelorn, Shadow Warriors
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: Terradon Riders (Fireleech Bolas) (1.57× faster)
Loses to, at a similar price: Snow Leopard (2.34× slower), Feral Stegadon (1.94× slower), Beast of Nurgle (1.67× 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 750 multiplayer gold. High Elf units ranked.
Match-ups people search for: Great Eagle vs Feral Manticore
Every version of Great Eagle
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High ElvesFlying Monster | 4,663 | 1 | 30 | 60 | 110 | 44 | 30 | 390 | 62 | 750 | 187 | wh2_main_hef_mon_great_eagle |
| Wood ElvesFlying Monster | 4,663 | 1 | 30 | 60 | 110 | 44 | 30 | 390 | 62 | 750 | 187 | wh_dlc05_wef_mon_great_eagle_0 |
Who can field it
- High Elves · Lothern
- 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 (wh2_main_hef_mon_great_eagle_summoned).
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.