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

Orc Labourers

Melee infantry· Great Axe Infantry· Tier 1· 140 models at Ultra size

Comes with Forge of the Chaos Dwarfs(Warhammer III)

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Orc Labourers are Chaos Dwarfs melee infantry: 10,640 HP across 140 models, armour 0, melee attack 22, melee defence 12, weapon strength 24. It costs 300 in the campaign and 250 in multiplayer. They come with Forge of the Chaos Dwarfs. Unit key wh3_dlc23_chd_inf_orc_labourers. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.

Health

76 per model

10,640

top 10% of class

Armour

0

bottom 1% of class

Leadership

36

bottom 4% of class

Speed

31

bottom 32% of class

Melee attack

22

bottom 12% of class

Melee defence

12

bottom 2% of class

Weapon strength

6 base + 18 armour-piercing

24

bottom 8% of class

Charge bonus

18

bottom 45% of class

Attributes

  • Expendable

    Witnessing friendly expendable units rout does not reduce other units' leadership, unless they are themselves expendable.

  • Hide (forest)

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

Abilities

  • Malign AuthorityAugment · +8 Leadershippassive

Counters

Good against

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 95.9% of the game's 194 infantry units in melee. Per 1,000 gold: 364 damage per second against Chaos Warriors; it lasts 80.2 s against one unit of them.

Beats, at a similar price: Miners (3.07× faster), Ungor Spearmen Herd (1.79× faster), Spearmen-at-Arms (1.58× faster)

Loses to, at a similar price: Gnoblars (1.75× slower), Zombie Pirate Deckhand Mob (1.38× slower), Men-at-Arms (1.06× 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 250 multiplayer gold. Chaos Dwarf units ranked.

Who can field it

  • Chaos Dwarfs · The Legion of Azgorh

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.