Halberdiers
Melee infantry· Halberd Infantry· Tier 2· 120 models at Ultra size
Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.
Halberdiers are Empire melee infantry: 8,760 HP across 120 models, armour 30, melee attack 26, melee defence 42, weapon strength 28. It costs 550 in the campaign and in multiplayer. Unit key wh_main_emp_inf_halberdiers. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
Health
73 per model
8,760
Armour
30
Leadership
70
Speed
30
Melee attack
26
Melee defence
42
Weapon strength
8 base + 20 armour-piercing, +16 vs large
28
Charge bonus
8
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.
Counters
Good against
- Large units — bonus vs large 16e.g. Rogue Idol, Dread Saurian, Khemric Titan · The Empire: Amethyst Land Ship, Land Ship
- Heavily armoured units — 20 of 28 weapon strength armour-piercinge.g. Blessed Bastiladon (Solar Engine), Rotting Leviathan, Rogue Idol · The Empire: Steam Tank, Demigryph Knights
Vulnerable to
- Bonus vs infantry — infantry-sizede.g. Doom-Flayers, War Mammoth, Feral Mammoth · The Empire: Steam Tank, Greatswords
- Missile fire — armour 30, no shielde.g. Ratling Guns, Stormfiends (Ratling Cannons), Chameleon Stalkers · The Empire: Amethyst Outriders, The Bordermen (Outriders – Grenade Launchers)
- Heavy large units — infantry-sized, mass 100e.g. Dread Maw, Thunderbarge, Thundertusk · The Empire: Steam Tank, Amethyst Land Ship
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 (346.56× faster), Warp-Grinders (10.29× faster), Eshin Triads (3.22× faster)
Loses to, at a similar price: Hobgoblin Cutthroats (1.90× slower), Marauders of Tzeentch (1.78× slower), Marauders of Nurgle (1.75× 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. Empire units ranked.
Match-ups people search for: Halberdiers vs Spearmen
Who can field it
- The Empire · Reikland
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 (wh2_dlc13_emp_inf_halberdiers_imperial_supply: 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.