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

Plagueridden (Death)

Hero· Wizard· 1 model at Ultra size

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Plagueridden (Death) is Nurgle and Daemons of Chaos hero: 4,308 HP, armour 30, melee attack 40, melee defence 47, weapon strength 370. It costs 1,850 in the campaign and 600 in multiplayer. Unit key wh3_main_nur_cha_plagueridden_death_0. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.

Health

4,308

top 47% of class

Armour

30

bottom 18% of class

Leadership

65

top 50% of class

Speed

27

bottom 1% of class

Melee attack

40

bottom 48% of class

Melee defence

47

top 18% of class

Weapon strength

110 base + 260 armour-piercing

370

top 47% of class

Charge bonus

20

bottom 15% of class

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.

  • Daemonic

    Daemonic units cannot be routed, but take damage when their Leadership is low. Daemonic units also have: Physical Resistance Fear and Terror Immunity

  • 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.

  • Hide (forest)

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

Abilities

  • Locus of VirulenceAugment (Area) · +24 Melee Attack, +25% Armour-Piercing Weapon Damage…active
  • Cloud of FliesAugment · +9 Melee Defencepassive
  • Daemonic InstabilityDirect Damage · Causes damage to selfpassive
  • Banished!Direct Damage · Causes severe damage to selfpassive
  • WoundsHex · -10% Speed, -20% Armour-Piercing Weapon Damage…passive

Lore of magic

Counters

Good against

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

Plagueridden (Death) skill tree

37 skills, line by line as the game lays them out. Hover a skill for the rank it unlocks at and its effects at each level.

Plan Plagueridden (Death)'s skills

  1. Nurgling Palanquin
  2. Rot Fly
  3. Hates Tzeentch
  4. Bloated Carcass
  5. Immortality
  6. Mentor
  1. Locus of Contagion
  2. Locus of Fecundity
  3. Locus of Virulence
  1. Infernal Champion
  2. Devastating Charge
  3. Thick-Skinned
  4. Hard to Hit
  5. Deadly Blade
  6. Foe-Seeker
  7. Wound-Maker
  8. Scarred Veteran
  9. Indomitable
  10. Blade Shield
  11. Deadly Onslaught
  1. Spirit Leech
  2. Life-Leeching
  3. Aspect of the Dread Knight
  4. Soulblight
  5. Doom & Darkness
  6. Evasion
  7. The Fate of Bjuna
  8. The Purple Sun of Xereus
  9. Earthing
  10. Magical Reserves
  11. Arcane Conduit
  1. Replenish Troops
  2. Spread Control
  3. Assault Garrison
  4. Assassinate
  5. Assault Units
  6. Specialist

Every version of Plagueridden (Death)

3 units share this name across races (mounts, race versions, renown or faction variants). Differences from the first row are highlighted.

VersionHPModelsArmourLead.SpeedMAMDWSChargeCostUpkeepUnit key
Nurgle, Daemons of ChaosWizard4,30813065274047370201,850250wh3_main_nur_cha_plagueridden_death_0
Nurgle, Daemons of ChaosWizard6,31618065284047370202,250300wh3_main_nur_cha_plagueridden_death_1
Nurgle, Daemons of ChaosWizard5,11615065904047420282,650375wh3_main_nur_cha_plagueridden_death_2

Who can field it

  • Daemons of Chaos · Legion of Chaos
  • Nurgle · Poxmakers of Nurgle

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.

The game also has 1 summoned or scripted copy of this unit that no building or mercenary pool recruits (wh3_survival_nur_cha_plagueridden_death).

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.