Morghast Archai
Monstrous infantry· Flying Monstrous Infantry· Tier 4· 12 models at Ultra size
Comes with Lords of the End Times - Undead Legion(Warhammer III)
Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.
Morghast Archai are Tomb Kings and Undead Legions monstrous infantry: 9,096 HP across 12 models, armour 100, melee attack 40, melee defence 45, weapon strength 120. It costs 1,900 in multiplayer. They come with Lords of the End Times - Undead Legion. Unit key wh2_dlc09_tmb_mon_morghast_archai. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
Health
758 per model
9,096
Armour
100
Leadership
60
Speed
80
Melee attack
40
Melee defence
45
Weapon strength
36 base + 84 armour-piercing, +30 vs large
120
Charge bonus
40
Attributes
- Causes Fear
This unit frightens all enemy units, reducing their leadership when nearby. It is also immune to fear. Fear penalties do not stack.
- Causes Terror
This unit can cause terror, making its melee target rout for a short time. Units that cause terror are immune to terror and fear themselves.
- 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.
- Can Fly
This unit can fly.
- Undead
Undead units cannot be routed, but take damage when their Leadership is broken. Undead units also have: Fear and Terror Immunity Undead units may also have their hit points restored by special characters such as the Vampire Counts Necromancer.
Abilities
- Realm of Souls IRegeneration · Replenishes hit points of combatants, Heals injured before resurrectingpassiveRealm of Souls IRegenerationReplenishes hit points of combatantsHeals injured before resurrectingPassive · Duration 7 s · 1 useFrom within the Realm of Souls – Nehekhara’s revered afterlife – deceased warriors are called forth and bound to mortal remains, to find purpose once again through war.
- Realm of Souls IIRegeneration · Replenishes hit points of combatants, Heals injured before resurrectingpassiveRealm of Souls IIRegenerationReplenishes hit points of combatantsHeals injured before resurrectingPassive · Duration 14 s · 1 useThe spirits of warriors slain can be summoned from the Realm of Souls and bound to corporeal bodies, so that they may fight for the Tomb Kings as they did in life.
- Realm of Souls IIIRegeneration · Replenishes hit points of combatants, Heals injured before resurrectingpassiveRealm of Souls IIIRegenerationReplenishes hit points of combatantsHeals injured before resurrectingPassive · Duration 21 s · 1 useThe Liche Priests use the very breath of Nehekhara’s gods to reach into the Realm of Souls, retrieving the spirits of dead soldiers for binding and eternal service to their Tomb King’s will.
- DisintegratingDirect DamagepassiveDisintegratingDirect DamagePassiveThe Dark Magic that holds these subjects together has failed. As the Necromantic energy flows out of them, nothing is left but a pile of iron and bones in the sand.
- CrumblingDirect DamagepassiveCrumblingDirect DamagePassiveIn the blasted desert of deepest Nehekhara, the dead rarely remain so. Those dragged back to screaming, clanking Unlife are bound forever to the Tomb King whose will they exist only to serve.
- FrenzyAugment · +10% Charge Bonus, +10 Melee Attack…passiveFrenzyAugment+10% Charge Bonus+10 Melee Attack+10% Armour-Piercing Weapon Damage+10% Base Weapon DamagePassiveSome warriors care not for their own personal safety, and so work themselves into a whirlwind of destruction and mindless violence!
Counters
Good against
- Large units — bonus vs large 30e.g. Rogue Idol, Dread Saurian, Feral Dread Saurian · Tomb Kings: Khemric Titan, Hierotitan
- Heavily armoured units — 84 of 120 weapon strength armour-piercinge.g. Steam Tank, Blessed Bastiladon (Solar Engine), Rotting Leviathan · Tomb Kings: Khemric Titan, Necropolis Knights
- Light infantry-sized units — large, mass 1,600e.g. Exalted Plaguebearers of Nurgle, Zombies, Zombie Pirate Deckhand Mob · Tomb Kings: Tomb Guard, Nehekharan Warriors
Vulnerable to
- Bonus vs large — large (cavalry-sized or bigger)e.g. Feral Troglodon, Warp Lightning Cannons, Blessed Stegadon · Tomb Kings: Bone Giant, Necrosphinx
- Armour-piercing — armour 100e.g. Warp-Doom Magma-Cannon, Luminark of Hysh, Little Grom · Tomb Kings: Necrosphinx, Hierotitan
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: Changebringers (24.18× faster), Slaughterbrute (4.01× faster), Stormfiends (Windlaunchers) (3.44× faster)
Loses to, at a similar price: Plague Ogres (Great Weapons) (1.88× slower), Maneaters (Great Weapons) (1.81× slower), Minotaurs of Khorne (Great Weapons) (1.31× 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 1,900 multiplayer gold.
Patch changes
Every version of Morghast Archai
2 units share this name across races (mounts, race versions, renown or faction variants). Differences from the first row are highlighted.
| Version | HP | Models | Armour | Lead. | Speed | MA | MD | WS | Charge | Cost | Upkeep | Unit key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tomb KingsFlying Monstrous Infantry | 9,096 | 12 | 100 | 60 | 80 | 40 | 45 | 120 | 40 | — | — | wh2_dlc09_tmb_mon_morghast_archai |
| Undead LegionsFlying Monstrous Infantry | 9,096 | 12 | 100 | 60 | 80 | 40 | 45 | 120 | 40 | 2,000 | 500 | wh3_dlc29_vmp_mon_morghast_archai |
Who can field it
- Tomb Kings · Khemri · extended roster
- Undead Legions · Host of Nagash
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.
Extended roster: Tomb Kings has this unit only through campaign_exclusive rows of units_custom_battle_permissions — CA's note: such units are “filtered out of matchmaking and are generally disabled when unit caps setting is enabled” (“Unable to recruit with unit caps enabled”). So: Custom Battle with Unit caps off, at the multiplayer cost, but not in ranked battles. Race rankings and best-unit lists leave such a unit out for those races.
The game also has 1 summoned or scripted copy of this unit that no building or mercenary pool recruits (wh3_dlc29_vmp_mon_morghast_archai_summon).
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.