How much HP do Pox Riders of Nurgle have?

Pox Riders of Nurgle have 7,872 HP across 24 models at Ultra unit size (patch 9.0.4).

How much do Pox Riders of Nurgle cost?

Pox Riders of Nurgle cost 1,050 in the campaign (Nurgle factions pay 2,000) and 1,000 in multiplayer.

What is the unit key for Pox Riders of Nurgle?

The unit key is wh3_main_nur_cav_pox_riders_of_nurgle_0.

Pox Riders of Nurgle

Monstrous cavalry· War Beasts· Tier 3· 24 models at Ultra size

Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.

Pox Riders of Nurgle are Nurgle, Daemons of Chaos and Warriors of Chaos monstrous cavalry: 7,872 HP across 24 models, armour 50, melee attack 36, melee defence 36, weapon strength 64. It costs 1,050 in the campaign (Nurgle factions pay 2,000) and 1,000 in multiplayer. Unit key wh3_main_nur_cav_pox_riders_of_nurgle_0. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.

Health

328 per model

7,872

top 34% of class

Armour

bottom 16% of class

Leadership

bottom 42% of class

Speed

bottom 1% of class

Melee attack

bottom 11% of class

Melee defence

bottom 37% of class

Weapon strength

31 base + 33 armour-piercing, +12 vs infantry

bottom 34% of class

Charge bonus

bottom 8% of class

Campaign cost: 1,050
Multiplayer cost: 1,000
Upkeep: 262
Mass: 1,700

The game gives these factions their own campaign price (main_unit_faction_overrides):

Nurgle factions2,000

Unit key (for console commands)

wh3_main_nur_cav_pox_riders_of_nurgle_0

Compare with other units

Rank

Leadership: 75
Melee attack: 36
Melee defence: 36
Experience: —

Rank 0 (recruited); the stat card stays at rank 0. Per rank: base^growth_rate × growth_scalar (unit_experience_bonuses, unit_experience_thresholds), patch 9.0.4. Worth in gold: the price at which the ranked unit breaks even against rank-0 copies of itself (combat calculator formulas).

Recruited from

Temple of NurgleAdvanced Recruitment, level 4Unlock: 11,000 gold, 18 turns · main building level 4 (+14,000 gold, 7 growth from level 1) · province capital only

The first building level that unlocks it (table building_units_allowed), patch 9.0.4. Unlock (computed): every level of that chain up to it (building_levels create_cost, create_time, one after another) and the main building level it needs, before cost reductions.

Physical resistance +20%

Base values at Ultra unit size, rank 0, no skills or items — patch 9.0.4. Hover a number for the game table it comes from. Bars are computed on this site: where the unit sits among monstrous cavalry units players can field.

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
Hide (forest)
This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.

Abilities

Cloud of FliesAugment · +9 Melee Defencepassive
Daemonic InstabilityDirect Damage · Causes damage to selfpassive
Banished!Direct Damage · Causes severe damage to selfpassive

Counters

Good against

Infantry-sized units — bonus vs infantry 12e.g. Zombies, Blessed Temple Guard, Zombie Pirate Deckhand Mob · Nurgle: Exalted Plaguebearers of Nurgle, Plaguebearers of Nurgle
Heavily armoured units — 33 of 64 weapon strength armour-piercinge.g. Steam Tank, Blessed Bastiladon (Solar Engine), Rotting Leviathan · Nurgle: Rot Knights
Units with physical resistance — magical melee attackse.g. Hexwraiths, Cairn Wraiths, Syreens · Nurgle: Soul Grinder of Nurgle, Great Unclean One
Light infantry-sized units — large, mass 1,700e.g. Zombies, Zombie Pirate Deckhand Mob, Blessed Saurus Spears (Shields) · Nurgle: Exalted Plaguebearers of Nurgle, Plaguebearers of Nurgle

Vulnerable to

Bonus vs large — large (cavalry-sized or bigger)e.g. Bone Giant, Feral Troglodon, Warp Lightning Cannons · Nurgle: Plague Ogres (Great Weapons), Rot Knights
Magical attacks — physical resistance +20%e.g. Stormfiends (Warpfire Projectors), Warpfire Throwers, Death Globe Bombardiers · Nurgle: Great Unclean One, Soul Grinder of Nurgle

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 74.2% of the game's 152 cavalry and chariots units in melee. Per 1,000 gold: 113.2 damage per second against Chaos Warriors; it lasts 42.8 s against one unit of them.

Beats, at a similar price: Casket of Souls (678.28× faster), War Wagons (Mortars) (97.14× faster), War Wagons (80.21× faster)

Loses to, at a similar price: Chaos Knights (2.06× slower), Questing Knights (1.80× slower), Knights Panther (1.78× 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 1,000 multiplayer gold. Nurgle units ranked.

Who can field it

Daemons of Chaos · Legion of Chaos
Nurgle · Poxmakers of Nurgle
Warriors of Chaos · Warhost of the Apocalypse · extended roster

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: Warriors of Chaos 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.

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.