Ironbreakers
Melee infantry· Axe Infantry· Tier 3· 100 models at Ultra size
Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.
Ironbreakers are Dwarfs melee infantry: 9,600 HP across 100 models, armour 125, melee attack 34, melee defence 66, weapon strength 32, range 60 m, missile damage 4,333 per 10 s for the whole unit. It costs 1,250 in the campaign and in multiplayer. Unit key wh_main_dwf_inf_ironbreakers. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
Health
96 per model
9,600
Armour
shield blocks 55% of small-arms missiles from the front (not artillery)
125
Leadership
85
Speed
26
Melee attack
34
Melee defence
66
Weapon strength
22 base + 10 armour-piercing
32
Charge bonus
8
Ranged
Range
60 m
Ammunition
2
Missile damage
1 base + 0 AP, explosion 27 + 11 AP
39
Reload time
9 s
Damage per 10 s
43
Attributes
- Expert Charge Defence
When bracing, this unit negates the charge bonus of any attacker.
- Hide (forest)
This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.
Counters
Good against
- Lightly armoured units without shields — 4,333 missile damage per 10 s (whole unit)e.g. Curs'd Ettin, Exalted Plaguebearers of Nurgle, Zombies · Dwarfs: Giant Slayers, Doomseekers
Vulnerable to
- Bonus vs infantry — infantry-sizede.g. Doom-Flayers, War Mammoth, Feral Mammoth · Dwarfs: Doomseekers
- Armour-piercing — armour 125e.g. Warp-Doom Magma-Cannon, Luminark of Hysh, Little Grom · Dwarfs: Yoked Carnosaur, Thunderbarge
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: Skin Wolves (12.76× faster), Skin Wolves (Armoured) (11.85× faster), Slayers (4.84× faster)
Loses to, at a similar price: Har Ganeth Executioners (2.50× slower), Chosen (2.33× slower), Chosen of Tzeentch (2.19× 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. Dwarf units ranked.
Match-ups people search for: Ironbreakers vs Hammerers · Ironbreakers vs Irondrakes · Ironbreakers vs Leadbelchers · Ironbreakers vs Longbeards · Ironbreakers vs Slayers
Who can field it
- Dwarfs · Karaz-a-Karak
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.
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.