Orc Big 'Uns
Melee infantry· Dual Sword 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.
Orc Big 'Uns are Greenskins melee infantry: 10,800 HP across 100 models, armour 50, melee attack 38, melee defence 28, weapon strength 42. It costs 750 in the campaign and in multiplayer. Unit key wh_main_grn_inf_orc_big_uns. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
Health
108 per model
10,800
Armour
50
Leadership
68
Speed
31
Melee attack
38
Melee defence
28
Weapon strength
29 base + 13 armour-piercing, +8 vs large
42
Charge bonus
27
Attributes
- Hide (forest)
This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.
Upgrades
Bought with Scrap
Scrap Armour
Armour · 55 Scrap
- Armour: +25
- Missile block chance: +30%
Big Banner Boyz
Bag · 50 Scrap · only Crooked Moon, Ironclaw Orcs
- Passive ability: "Big Banner Boyz"
Wizardly Weapons
Flask · 50 Scrap · only Bonerattlaz, Crooked Moon
- Passive ability: "Wizardly Weapons"
Betta Blades
Weapon · 30 Scrap
- Weapon strength: +15%
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.
Counters
Vulnerable to
- Bonus vs infantry — infantry-sizede.g. Doom-Flayers, War Mammoth, Feral Mammoth · Greenskins: Rogue Idol, Colossal Squig
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 (11.13× faster), Warp-Grinders (5.82× faster), Eshin Triads (3.18× faster)
Loses to, at a similar price: Greatswords (1.81× slower), Infernal Guard (1.62× slower), Chaos Warriors of Nurgle (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 750 multiplayer gold. Greenskin units ranked.
Match-ups people search for: Orc Big 'Uns vs Black Orcs
Who can field it
- Greenskins · Grimgor's 'Ardboyz
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.