Unofficial fan reference · game data patch 9.0.4 (Oct 15, 2026)
Men-at-Arms (Shields) unit card

Men-at-Arms (Shields)

Melee infantry· Sword Infantry· Tier 1· 120 models at Ultra size

Comes with Repansefree(Warhammer II)

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Men-at-Arms (Shields) are Bretonnia melee infantry: 7,800 HP across 120 models, armour 30, melee attack 27, melee defence 34, weapon strength 26. It costs 300 in the campaign and in multiplayer. They come with Repanse. Unit key wh_dlc07_brt_inf_men_at_arms_2. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.

Health

65 per model

7,800

bottom 17% of class

Armour

shield blocks 55% of small-arms missiles from the front (not artillery)

30

bottom 33% of class

Leadership

45

bottom 5% of class

Speed

30

bottom 25% of class

Melee attack

27

bottom 25% of class

Melee defence

34

bottom 46% of class

Weapon strength

20 base + 6 armour-piercing

26

bottom 16% of class

Charge bonus

10

bottom 19% of class

Attributes

  • Hide (forest)

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

  • Peasant

    A unit with the Peasant Attribute will gain increased leadership if a unit with the Knight Attribute is nearby.

Abilities

  • The Peasant's DutyAugment · +8 Leadershippassive

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 90.4% of the game's 194 infantry units in melee. Per 1,000 gold: 184.2 damage per second against Chaos Warriors; it lasts 93.2 s against one unit of them.

Beats, at a similar price: Nurglings (2.75× faster), Zombie Pirate Deckhand Mob (Polearms) (2.10× faster), Ungor Spearmen Herd (2.04× faster)

Loses to, at a similar price: Zombie Pirate Deckhand Mob (1.15× slower), Men-at-Arms (1.12× slower), Orc Labourers (1.01× 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 300 multiplayer gold. Bretonnia units ranked.

Who can field it

  • Bretonnia · Couronne

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.