Longbeards (Great Weapons)
Melee infantry· Great 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 (Great Weapons) are Dwarfs melee infantry: 8,600 HP across 100 models, armour 100, melee attack 30, melee defence 38, weapon strength 36. It costs 750 in the campaign and in multiplayer. Unit key wh_main_dwf_inf_longbeards_1. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
Health
86 per model
8,600
Armour
100
Leadership
80
Speed
26
Melee attack
30
Melee defence
38
Weapon strength
10 base + 26 armour-piercing
36
Charge bonus
18
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
Good against
- Heavily armoured units — 26 of 36 weapon strength armour-piercinge.g. Steam Tank, Blessed Bastiladon (Solar Engine), Rotting Leviathan · Dwarfs: Ironbreakers, Irondrakes
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: Skin Wolves (8.56× faster), Warp-Grinders (7.09× faster), Forsaken of Nurgle (3.13× faster)
Loses to, at a similar price: Greatswords (1.62× slower), Foot Squires (1.45× slower), Infernal Guard (1.38× 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 750 multiplayer gold. Dwarf units ranked.
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.