Marauder Horsemen of Nurgle (Throwing Axes)
Missile cavalry· Missile Cavalry· Tier 2· 60 models at Ultra size
Comes with Champions of Chaos(Warhammer III)
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Marauder Horsemen of Nurgle (Throwing Axes) are Warriors of Chaos and Nurgle missile cavalry: 5,940 HP across 60 models, armour 15, melee attack 17, melee defence 31, weapon strength 24, range 70 m, missile damage 1,620 per 10 s for the whole unit. It costs 650 in the campaign and in multiplayer. They come with Champions of Chaos. Unit key wh3_dlc20_chs_cav_marauder_horsemen_mnur_throwing_axes. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
Health
99 per model
5,940
Armour
shield blocks 30% of small-arms missiles from the front (not artillery)
15
Leadership
48
Speed
90
Melee attack
17
Melee defence
31
Weapon strength
19 base + 5 armour-piercing
24
Charge bonus
24
Ranged
Range
70 m
Ammunition
12
Missile damage
6 base + 21 AP
27
Reload time
10 s
Damage per 10 s
27
Attributes
- Vanguard Deployment
This unit can deploy outside the deployment zone.
- Hide (forest)
This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.
- Mark of Nurgle
A unit with the Mark of Nurgle has: Poison Contact Effect Increased Hit Points Increased Melee Defence Reduced Melee Attack
- Fire Whilst Moving
This unit can fire while on the move.
Upgrades
Can become
Chaos Chariots of NurgleNurgle
500 gold · needs rank 4 · loses 4 ranks
COMPUTED recruiting it costs 850; this unit + the upgrade 1,150 (+300) · upkeep +51 a turn · lasts against Chaos Warriors 18 → 41.8 s · its technology: 700 research points to reach it (cheapest route)
Technology: Charioteer
Chaos Knights of Nurgle (Lances), Chaos Knights of NurgleNurgle
600 gold · needs rank 8 · loses 8 ranks
COMPUTED Chaos Knights of Nurgle (Lances): recruiting it costs 1,600; this unit + the upgrade 1,250 (−350) · upkeep +238 a turn · lasts against Chaos Warriors 18 → 82.3 s · its technology: 1,100 research points to reach it (cheapest route)
COMPUTED Chaos Knights of Nurgle: recruiting it costs 1,500; this unit + the upgrade 1,250 (−250) · upkeep +213 a turn · lasts against Chaos Warriors 18 → 144.1 s · its technology: 1,100 research points to reach it (cheapest route)
Technology: Profane Weaponry
Upgraded from: Marauder Horsemen, Marauder Horsemen (Throwing Axes)
Campaign only, from the game's tables (unit_upgrade_to_unit_groups, unit_purchasable_effects), patch 9.0.4. Costs are before skills and technologies that make upgrades cheaper. “Lasts”: the whole unit's hit points (a magic barrier included, taken first) ÷ one unit of Chaos Warriors' melee damage per second against it (combat calculator formulas, base cards). Every mark and promotion compared: best Mark of Chaos.
Counters
Good against
- Heavily armoured units — 21 of 27 missile damage armour-piercinge.g. Steam Tank, Blessed Bastiladon (Solar Engine), Rotting Leviathan · Warriors of Chaos: Chaos Knights of Khorne, Chosen of Khorne
- Lightly armoured units without shields — 1,620 missile damage per 10 s (whole unit)e.g. Curs'd Ettin, Exalted Plaguebearers of Nurgle, Zombies · Warriors of Chaos: Marauders of Nurgle (Great Weapons), Marauders of Khorne (Dual Weapons)
Vulnerable to
- Bonus vs large — large (cavalry-sized or bigger)e.g. Bone Giant, Feral Troglodon, Warp Lightning Cannons · Warriors of Chaos: Dragon Ogre Shaggoth, Dragon Ogres
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
Who can field it
- Nurgle · Poxmakers of Nurgle
- Warriors of Chaos · Warhost of the Apocalypse
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.