Putrid Blightkings
Melee infantry· Axe Infantry· Tier 4· 32 models at Ultra size
Comes with Lords of the End Times - Warriors of Chaos(Warhammer III)
Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.
Putrid Blightkings are Warriors of Chaos and Nurgle melee infantry: 11,840 HP across 32 models, armour 120, melee attack 48, melee defence 67, weapon strength 75. It costs 1,500 in the campaign (Nurgle factions pay 2,400) and 1,500 in multiplayer. They come with Lords of the End Times - Warriors of Chaos. Unit key wh3_dlc29_chs_inf_putrid_blightkings_axe_shield. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
Health
370 per model
11,840
Armour
shield blocks 55% of small-arms missiles from the front (not artillery)
120
Leadership
85
Speed
31
Melee attack
48
Melee defence
67
Weapon strength
33 base + 42 armour-piercing
75
Charge bonus
26
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.
- Hide (forest)
This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.
- Mark of Nurgle
A unit with the Mark of Nurgle has: Poison Contact Effect Increased Hit Points Increased Melee Defence Reduced Melee Attack
Abilities
- Chosen of the PlaguefatherAugment · Replenishes hit points of combatantspassiveChosen of the PlaguefatherAugmentReplenishes hit points of combatantsPassiveOnly fools dare try to best those who bear the Plaguefather’s mark, most of whom lose their hope, sanity, and life trying to do so.
Upgrades
Can become
Putrid Blightkings, Putrid Blightkings (Dual Axes), Putrid Blightkings (Great Weapons)Nurgle
150 gold
COMPUTED Putrid Blightkings (Dual Axes): recruiting it costs 1,600; this unit + the upgrade 1,650 (+50) · upkeep +25 a turn · lasts against Chaos Warriors 389.5 → 155.8 s
COMPUTED Putrid Blightkings (Great Weapons): recruiting it costs 1,650; this unit + the upgrade 1,650 (±0) · upkeep +37 a turn · lasts against Chaos Warriors 389.5 → 129.8 s
Upgraded from: Chosen of Nurgle (Great Weapons), Chosen of Nurgle, Putrid Blightkings (Dual Axes), Putrid Blightkings (Great Weapons), Chosen (Halberds), Chosen, Chosen (Great Weapons)
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. “Lasts”: the whole unit's hit points (a magic barrier included, taken first) ÷ one unit of Chaos Warriors' melee damage per second against it (combat calculator formulas, base cards). Every mark and promotion compared: best Mark of Chaos.
Counters
Good against
- Heavily armoured units — 42 of 75 weapon strength armour-piercinge.g. Steam Tank, Blessed Bastiladon (Solar Engine), Rotting Leviathan · Warriors of Chaos: Chaos Knights of Khorne, Chosen of Khorne
Vulnerable to
- Bonus vs infantry — infantry-sizede.g. Doom-Flayers, War Mammoth, Feral Mammoth · Warriors of Chaos: Gorebeast Chariots, Chaos Chariots of Khorne
- Armour-piercing — armour 120e.g. Warp-Doom Magma-Cannon, Luminark of Hysh, Little Grom · Warriors of Chaos: Chaos Giant, Dragon Ogre Shaggoth
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 (Armoured) (12.35× faster), Aspiring Champions (6.83× faster), Depth Guard (Polearms) (3.40× faster)
Loses to, at a similar price: Har Ganeth Executioners (1.90× slower), Bladesingers (1.45× slower), Swordmasters of Hoeth (1.40× 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 1,500 multiplayer gold. Warriors of Chaos units ranked.
Patch changes
New unit in this patch.
Who can field it
- Nurgle · Poxmakers of Nurgle
- Warriors of Chaos · Warhost of the Apocalypse
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.