Unofficial fan reference · game data patch 9.0.4 (Oct 15, 2026)
Putrid Blightkings (Dual Axes) unit card

Putrid Blightkings (Dual Axes)

Melee infantry· Dual Axe Infantry· Tier 4· 32 models at Ultra size

Comes with Lords of the End Times - Warriors of Chaos(Warhammer III)

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Putrid Blightkings (Dual Axes) are Warriors of Chaos and Nurgle melee infantry: 11,840 HP across 32 models, armour 120, melee attack 54, melee defence 51, weapon strength 80. It costs 1,600 in the campaign (Nurgle factions pay 2,400) and 1,600 in multiplayer. They come with Lords of the End Times - Warriors of Chaos. Unit key wh3_dlc29_chs_inf_putrid_blightkings_dual_axe. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.

Health

370 per model

11,840

top 4% of class

Armour

120

top 7% of class

Leadership

85

top 20% of class

Speed

31

bottom 32% of class

Melee attack

54

top 4% of class

Melee defence

51

top 13% of class

Weapon strength

35 base + 45 armour-piercing, +12 vs infantry

80

top 3% of class

Charge bonus

36

top 8% 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.

  • 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 combatantspassive

Upgrades

Can become

  • Putrid Blightkings, Putrid Blightkings (Dual Axes), Putrid Blightkings (Great Weapons)Nurgle

    150 gold

    COMPUTED Putrid Blightkings: recruiting it costs 1,500; this unit + the upgrade 1,750 (+250) · upkeep −25 a turn · lasts against Chaos Warriors 155.8 → 389.5 s

    COMPUTED Putrid Blightkings (Great Weapons): recruiting it costs 1,650; this unit + the upgrade 1,750 (+100) · upkeep +12 a turn · lasts against Chaos Warriors 155.8 → 129.8 s

Upgraded from: Chosen of Nurgle (Great Weapons), Chosen of Nurgle, Putrid Blightkings, 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

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 61.1% of the game's 194 infantry units in melee. Per 1,000 gold: 167.8 damage per second against Chaos Warriors; it lasts 97.4 s against one unit of them.

Beats, at a similar price: Lahmian Handmaidens (Death) (2.76× faster), Depth Guard (Polearms) (2.07× faster), Lahmian Handmaidens (Shadows) (1.99× faster)

Loses to, at a similar price: Har Ganeth Executioners (2.02× slower), Hammerers (1.58× slower), Exalted Bloodletters of Khorne (1.50× 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 1,600 multiplayer gold. Warriors of Chaos units ranked.

Patch changes

Patch 9.0

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.