Gryphon Legion
Melee cavalry· Shock Cavalry· Tier 3· 60 models at Ultra size
Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.
Gryphon Legion are Kislev melee cavalry: 6,960 HP across 60 models, armour 110, melee attack 34, melee defence 32, weapon strength 40. It costs 1,250 in the campaign and in multiplayer. Unit key wh3_main_ksl_cav_gryphon_legion_0. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
Health
116 per model
6,960
Armour
shield blocks 30% of small-arms missiles from the front (not artillery)
110
Leadership
75
Speed
75
Melee attack
34
Melee defence
32
Weapon strength
28 base + 12 armour-piercing
40
Charge bonus
72
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.
- Glorious Charge
When charging into an enemy unit: Charge Bonus duration is doubled. Enemy units take a Leadership penalty as if they have been attacked in the flank.
- Hide (forest)
This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.
Abilities
- By Our BloodAugmentpassiveBy Our BloodAugmentPassive · Duration 25 s · 1 useKislevite warriors are inherently stronger than weak-hearted Empire-men, who know nothing of the hardship and strife of lives lived on the unforgiving steppes.
Counters
Good against
- Light infantry-sized units — large, mass 1,300e.g. Exalted Plaguebearers of Nurgle, Zombies, Zombie Pirate Deckhand Mob · Kislev: Tzar Guard, Kislevite Warriors
Vulnerable to
- Bonus vs large — large (cavalry-sized or bigger)e.g. Bone Giant, Feral Troglodon, Warp Lightning Cannons · Kislev: Frost Wyrm, Little Grom
- Armour-piercing — armour 110e.g. Warp-Doom Magma-Cannon, Luminark of Hysh, Dread Saurian · Kislev: Little Grom, Elemental Bear
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: Casket of Souls (432.08× faster), War Wagons (Mortars) (60.71× faster), War Wagons (50.13× faster)
Loses to, at a similar price: Chaos Knights of Nurgle (4.39× slower), Questing Knights (4.28× slower), Chaos Knights (3.90× 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 1,250 multiplayer gold. Kislev units ranked.
Match-ups people search for: Gryphon Legion vs War Bear Riders · Gryphon Legion vs Winged Lancers
Who can field it
- Kislev · The Ice Court
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 campaign also recruits 1 copy of this unit that no faction fields in custom battles (wh3_main_pro_ksl_cav_gryphon_legion_ror_0: recruited from a building).
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.