Longbeards
Melee infantry· Axe Infantry· Tier 2· 100 models at Ultra size
Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.
Longbeards are Dwarfs melee infantry: 8,600 HP across 100 models, armour 100, melee attack 30, melee defence 48, weapon strength 32. It costs 700 in the campaign and in multiplayer. Unit key wh_main_dwf_inf_longbeards. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
Health
86 per model
8,600
Armour
shield blocks 55% of small-arms missiles from the front (not artillery)
100
Leadership
80
Speed
26
Melee attack
30
Melee defence
48
Weapon strength
25 base + 7 armour-piercing
32
Charge bonus
10
Attributes
- Charge Defence vs. Large
When bracing, this unit negates the charge bonus of any large attacker.
- 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.
- Immune to Psychology
The unit is immune to psychological attacks (Fear & Terror).
Counters
Vulnerable to
- Bonus vs infantry — infantry-sizede.g. Doom-Flayers, War Mammoth, Feral Mammoth · Dwarfs: Doomseekers
- Armour-piercing — armour 100e.g. Warp-Doom Magma-Cannon, Luminark of Hysh, Little Grom · Dwarfs: Yoked Carnosaur, Thunderbarge
- Heavy large units — infantry-sized, mass 200e.g. Dread Maw, Steam Tank, Thundertusk · Dwarfs: Thunderbarge, Yoked Carnosaur
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: Warp-Grinders (10.62× faster), Eshin Triads (3.98× faster), Flagellants (3.94× faster)
Loses to, at a similar price: Greatswords (2.21× slower), Foot Squires (1.50× slower), Chaos Warriors (Great Weapons) (1.35× 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 700 multiplayer gold. Dwarf units ranked.
Match-ups people search for: Longbeards vs Dwarf Warriors · Longbeards vs Hammerers · Longbeards vs Ironbreakers
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.