Liche Priest (Death)
Hero· Wizard· 1 model at Ultra size
Comes with Tomb Kings(Warhammer II)
Skill tree →Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.
Liche Priest (Death) is Tomb Kings and Undead Legions hero: 3,520 HP, armour 30, melee attack 25, melee defence 30, weapon strength 300. It costs 300 in multiplayer. In the campaign Host of Nagash pays 300. It comes with Tomb Kings. Unit key wh2_dlc09_tmb_cha_liche_priest_death_0. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
Hit Points3,520This determines how many hits a unit can withstand alongside armour and melee defence.Patch 9.0.4 · battle_entities.hit_points, land_units.bonus_hit_points, main_units.num_men · (soldier + mount hit points + bonus hit points) × models
Health
3,520
bottom 10% of class
Armour30How resistant a unit is to missile fire and melee attacks.Patch 9.0.4 · land_units.armour → unit_armour_types.armour_value
Armour
30
bottom 18% of class
Leadership60A unit with high leadership is less likely to rout in the face of danger.
Leadership is improved by experience in battle.Patch 9.0.4 · land_units.morale
Leadership
60
bottom 17% of class
Speed31This is how fast a unit moves.Patch 9.0.4 · battle_entities.run_speed / fly_speed (mount if any) · run or fly speed × 10
Speed
31
bottom 2% of class
Melee Attack25This determines the chance of a successful hit on the enemy when the unit is engaged in melee.
Battle-hardened troops will gain experience through melee, improving this skill.Patch 9.0.4 · land_units.melee_attack
Melee attack
25
bottom 3% of class
Melee Defence30This determines the chance of a unit being hit whilst in melee.
This only works in melee and provides no protection from missiles!Patch 9.0.4 · land_units.melee_defence
Melee defence
30
bottom 19% of class
Weapon strength300 · 210 base + 90 armour-piercingBase Weapon Damage: Base weapon damageArmour-Piercing Weapon Damage: Armour-piercing weapon damagePatch 9.0.4 · melee_weapons.damage + ap_damage · base damage + armour-piercing damage
Weapon strength
210 base + 90 armour-piercing
300
bottom 19% of class
Charge Bonus10This increases a unit's melee attack and damage when charging.Patch 9.0.4 · land_units.charge_bonus
Charge bonus
10
bottom 1% of class
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.
- Encourage
This unit provides a leadership bonus to nearby allies. Units within range of both the Lord's aura and an encouraging unit will receive the larger of the two bonuses.
- Hide (forest)
This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.
- Undead
Undead units cannot be routed, but take damage when their Leadership is broken. Undead units also have: Fear and Terror Immunity Undead units may also have their hit points restored by special characters such as the Vampire Counts Necromancer.
Abilities
- Curse of KhsarHex (Area) · -60 ArmouractiveCurse of KhsarHex (Area)-60 ArmourDuration 25 s · 1 use · Range 35 mThe harsh, howling desert winds cut through everything, be it armour or clothing or raw flesh.
- DisintegratingDirect DamagepassiveDisintegratingDirect DamagePassiveThe Dark Magic that holds these subjects together has failed. As the Necromantic energy flows out of them, nothing is left but a pile of iron and bones in the sand.
- CrumblingDirect DamagepassiveCrumblingDirect DamagePassiveIn the blasted desert of deepest Nehekhara, the dead rarely remain so. Those dragged back to screaming, clanking Unlife are bound forever to the Tomb King whose will they exist only to serve.
- 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.
Lore of magic
Lore of Death
Counters
Vulnerable to
- Bonus vs infantry — infantry-sizede.g. Doom-Flayers, War Mammoth, Feral Mammoth · Tomb Kings: Morghast Harbingers, Khemrian Warsphinx
- Missile fire — armour 30, no shielde.g. Ratling Guns, Stormfiends (Ratling Cannons), Chameleon Stalkers · Tomb Kings: Sepulchral Stalkers, Skeleton Archers
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
Patch changes
Liche Priest (Death) skill tree
27 skills, line by line as the game lays them out. Hover a skill for the rank it unlocks at and its effects at each level.
Plan Liche Priest (Death)'s skills
- Skeletal SteedSkeletal SteedUnlocks at rank 7
- Mount: Skeletal Steed
- Ceremonial BandagesCeremonial BandagesUnlocks at rank 8
- Missile resistance: 15%
- Trapped SoulTrapped SoulUnlocks at rank 12
- Attribute: Causes Terror
- Spell resistance: 15%
- Elixir of ImmortalityElixir of ImmortalityUnlocks at rank 12
- This Character will be wounded instead of killed in battle
- Physical resistance: 5%
- MentorMentorUnlocks at rank 30 · 3 levelsLevel 1
- Character will share +15% of experience earned between all other active Heroes of the same type
- Character will share +30% of experience earned between all other active Heroes of the same type
- Character will share +50% of experience earned between all other active Heroes of the same type
- Tipping the ScalesTipping the ScalesUnlocks at rank 10
- Targeting range: +5% for spells
- Miscast base chance: -15%
- Incantation of PreservationIncantation of PreservationUnlocks at rank 10
- Recruit rank: +2 for all units (Hero's army)
- Lord recruit rank: +1 (factionwide)
- Keeper of LoreKeeper of LoreUnlocks at rank 10
- Winds of Magic power reserve capacity: +10 (own army)
- Research rate: +5
- Mortuary CultistMortuary CultistUnlocks at rank 10
- Enemy Hero action success chance: -5% (enemy characters in region)
- Armour: +10
- Ambush success chance: +5% (Hero's army)
- Spirit LeechSpirit Leech2 levelsLevel 1
- Overcast spell: "Spirit Leech Upgraded"
- Cooldown: -30% to "Spirit Leech"
- Miscast base chance: -15% for "Spirit Leech Upgraded"
- Overcast spell: "Spirit Leech Upgraded"
- Winds of Magic cost: -2 for "Spirit Leech"
- Winds of Magic cost: -2 for "Spirit Leech Upgraded"
- Cooldown: -50% to "Spirit Leech"
- Life-LeechingLife-Leeching
- Passive ability: "Life Leeching"
- Aspect of the Dread KnightAspect of the Dread Knight3 levelsLevel 1
- Spell: "Aspect of the Dread Knight"
- Overcast spell: "Aspect of the Dread Knight Upgraded"
- Cooldown: -30% to "Aspect of the Dread Knight"
- Miscast base chance: -15% for "Aspect of the Dread Knight Upgraded"
- Overcast spell: "Aspect of the Dread Knight Upgraded"
- Winds of Magic cost: -1 for "Aspect of the Dread Knight"
- Winds of Magic cost: -2 for "Aspect of the Dread Knight Upgraded"
- Cooldown: -50% to "Aspect of the Dread Knight"
- SoulblightSoulblight3 levelsLevel 1
- Spell: "Soulblight"
- Overcast spell: "Soulblight Upgraded"
- Cooldown: -30% to "Soulblight"
- Miscast base chance: -15% for "Soulblight Upgraded"
- Overcast spell: "Soulblight Upgraded"
- Winds of Magic cost: -2 for "Soulblight"
- Winds of Magic cost: -3 for "Soulblight Upgraded"
- Cooldown: -50% to "Soulblight"
- Doom & DarknessDoom & Darkness3 levelsLevel 1
- Spell: "Doom & Darkness"
- Overcast spell: "Doom & Darkness Upgraded"
- Cooldown: -30% to "Doom & Darkness"
- Miscast base chance: -15% for "Doom & Darkness Upgraded"
- Overcast spell: "Doom & Darkness Upgraded"
- Winds of Magic cost: -1 for "Doom & Darkness"
- Winds of Magic cost: -2 for "Doom & Darkness Upgraded"
- Cooldown: -50% to "Doom & Darkness"
- EvasionEvasion
- Passive ability: "Evasion"
- The Fate of BjunaThe Fate of Bjuna2 levelsLevel 1
- Spell: "The Fate of Bjuna"
- Winds of Magic cost: -3 for "The Fate of Bjuna"
- Cooldown: -50% to "The Fate of Bjuna"
- Spell: "The Fate of Bjuna"
- The Purple Sun of XereusThe Purple Sun of Xereus3 levelsLevel 1
- Spell: "The Purple Sun of Xereus"
- Overcast spell: "The Purple Sun of Xereus Upgraded"
- Cooldown: -30% to "The Purple Sun of Xereus"
- Miscast base chance: -15% for "The Purple Sun of Xereus Upgraded"
- Overcast spell: "The Purple Sun of Xereus Upgraded"
- Winds of Magic cost: -2 for "The Purple Sun of Xereus"
- Winds of Magic cost: -3 for "The Purple Sun of Xereus Upgraded"
- Cooldown: -50% to "The Purple Sun of Xereus"
- EarthingEarthing
- Miscast base chance: -15%
- Magical ReservesMagical Reserves
- Winds of Magic power reserve capacity: +5
- Arcane ConduitArcane Conduit
- Passive ability: "Arcane Conduit"
- Replenish TroopsReplenish Troops3 levelsLevel 1
- Replenish Troops action: Replenishment rate is increased by an additional 3%
- Replenish Troops action: Replenishment rate is increased by an additional 6%
- Replenish Troops action: Replenishment rate is increased by an additional 9%
- Cleanse CorruptionCleanse Corruption3 levelsLevel 1
- Cleanse Corruption action: Corruption is reduced by an additional 1
- Cleanse Corruption action: Corruption is reduced by an additional 2
- Cleanse Corruption action: Corruption is reduced by an additional 3
- Damage BuildingDamage Building3 levelsLevel 1
- Damage Building action: Additional 5% damage caused
- Damage Building action: Additional 15% damage caused
- Damage Building action: Additional 30% damage caused
- WoundWound3 levelsLevel 1
- Wound action: Additional 5% chance of wounding target
- Wound action: Additional 12% chance of wounding target
- Wound action: Additional 21% chance of wounding target
- Hinder ReplenishmentHinder Replenishment3 levelsLevel 1
- Hinder Replenishment action: Replenishment is modified by an additional -10%
- Hinder Replenishment action: Replenishment is modified by an additional -20%
- Hinder Replenishment action: Replenishment is modified by an additional -40%
- SpecialistSpecialist3 levelsLevel 1
- Hero action cost: -10%
- Hero action success chance: +1%
- Hero action cost: -20%
- Hero action success chance: +3%
- Hero action cost: -40%
- Hero action success chance: +6%
- Canopic Jar HoarderCanopic Jar Hoarder3 levelsLevel 1
- Canopic Jars generated: 5 per turn
- Canopic Jars gained post-battle +1% (own army)
- Canopic Jars generated: 10 per turn
- Canopic Jars gained post-battle +2% (own army)
- Canopic Jars generated: 15 per turn
- Canopic Jars gained post-battle +3% (own army)
Every version of Liche Priest (Death)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tomb Kings, Undead LegionsWizard | 3,520 | 1 | 30 | 60 | 31 | 25 | 30 | 300 | 10 | — | — | wh2_dlc09_tmb_cha_liche_priest_death_0 |
| Tomb Kings, Undead LegionsWizard | 3,948 | 1 | 30 | 60 | 76 | 25 | 30 | 300 | 30 | — | — | wh2_dlc09_tmb_cha_liche_priest_death_1 |
Who can field it
- Tomb Kings · Khemri
- Undead Legions · Host of Nagash
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.