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

Peasant Horsemen

Melee cavalry· Cavalry· Tier 1· 60 models at Ultra size

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Peasant Horsemen are Grand Cathay melee cavalry: 5,520 HP across 60 models, armour 15, melee attack 26, melee defence 26, weapon strength 28. It costs 400 in the campaign and in multiplayer. Unit key wh3_main_cth_cav_peasant_horsemen_0. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.

Health

92 per model

5,520

bottom 16% of class

Armour

15

bottom 4% of class

Leadership

55

bottom 13% of class

Speed

90

top 27% of class

Melee attack

26

bottom 16% of class

Melee defence

26

bottom 17% of class

Weapon strength

21 base + 7 armour-piercing

28

bottom 7% of class

Charge bonus

36

bottom 23% of class

Attributes

  • Expendable

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

  • Vanguard Deployment

    This unit can deploy outside the deployment zone.

  • Hide (forest)

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

  • Yang

    This unit counts as a Yang unit for the purpose of Battle Harmony proximity

Abilities

  • Battle Harmony: YangAugment · +4 Melee Attack, +4 Melee Defence…passive

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 87.4% of the game's 152 cavalry and chariots units in melee. Per 1,000 gold: 80.1 damage per second against Chaos Warriors; it lasts 37.1 s against one unit of them.

Beats, at a similar price: Corpse Cart (Balefire) (194.19× faster), Corpse Cart (Unholy Lodestone) (194.19× faster), Corpse Cart (69.91× faster)

Loses to, at a similar price: Goblin Wolf Riders (1.27× slower), Forest Goblin Spider Riders (1.03× 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 400 multiplayer gold. Grand Cathay units ranked.

Who can field it

  • Grand Cathay · The Northern Provinces

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.