Unofficial fan reference · game data patch 9.0.4 (Oct 15, 2026)
Marauder Champions unit card

Marauder Champions

Melee infantry· Axe Infantry· Tier 3· 100 models at Ultra size

Comes with Norsca(Warhammer I)

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Marauder Champions are Norsca melee infantry: 9,600 HP across 100 models, armour 80, melee attack 35, melee defence 53, weapon strength 46. It costs 1,000 in the campaign and in multiplayer. They come with Norsca. Unit key wh_dlc08_nor_inf_marauder_champions_0. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.

Health

96 per model

9,600

top 35% of class

Armour

shield blocks 35% of small-arms missiles from the front (not artillery)

80

top 35% of class

Leadership

75

top 46% of class

Speed

35

top 48% of class

Melee attack

35

top 42% of class

Melee defence

53

top 10% of class

Weapon strength

32 base + 14 armour-piercing

46

top 24% of class

Charge bonus

20

top 44% of class

Attributes

  • Hide (forest)

    This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.

Abilities

  • RageAugment · +5 Melee Attack, +8 Leadership…passive

Counters

Vulnerable to

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

COMPUTEDAt equal gold it beats 80.6% of the game's 194 infantry units in melee. Per 1,000 gold: 143 damage per second against Chaos Warriors; it lasts 104.6 s against one unit of them.

Beats, at a similar price: Skin Wolves (13.76× faster), Skin Wolves (Armoured) (12.70× faster), Eshin Triads (5.22× faster)

Loses to, at a similar price: Chosen (2.23× slower), Greatswords (1.80× slower), Har Ganeth Executioners (1.60× 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 1,000 multiplayer gold. Norsca units ranked.

Match-ups people search for: Marauder Champions vs Chaos Warriors · Marauder Champions vs Chosen

Who can field it

  • Norsca · World Walkers

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.