Shades
Missile infantry· Missile Infantry· Tier 2· 80 models at Ultra size
Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.
Shades are Dark Elves missile infantry: 6,720 HP across 80 models, armour 30, melee attack 40, melee defence 32, weapon strength 30, range 130 m, missile damage 2,400 per 10 s for the whole unit. It costs 950 in the campaign and in multiplayer. Unit key wh2_main_def_inf_shades_0. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
Health
84 per model
6,720
Armour
30
Leadership
68
Speed
42
Melee attack
40
Melee defence
32
Weapon strength
21 base + 9 armour-piercing
30
Charge bonus
16
Ranged
Range
130 m
Ammunition
18
Missile damage
3 base + 12 AP, 2 projectiles per shot
15
Reload time
10 s
Damage per 10 s
30
Attributes
- Vanguard Deployment
This unit can deploy outside the deployment zone.
- Stalk
This unit can move hidden in any terrain.
Abilities
- Murderous ProwessAugment · +20% Armour-Piercing Missile Damage, +25% Charge Bonus…passiveMurderous ProwessAugment+20% Armour-Piercing Missile Damage+25% Charge Bonus+25% Melee Attack+15 LeadershipPassive · Duration 90 s · 1 useSlaughter! There is no greater glorification of Khaine, the God of Murder, and no more popular form of worship – or indeed daily exercise – amongst the Dark Elves.
Counters
Good against
- Heavily armoured units — 12 of 15 missile damage armour-piercinge.g. Steam Tank, Blessed Bastiladon (Solar Engine), Rotting Leviathan · Dark Elves: Cold One Dread Knights, Cold One Chariots
- Lightly armoured units without shields — 2,400 missile damage per 10 s (whole unit)e.g. Curs'd Ettin, Exalted Plaguebearers of Nurgle, Zombies · Dark Elves: Feral Bears, Feral Ice Bears
Vulnerable to
- Bonus vs infantry — infantry-sizede.g. Doom-Flayers, War Mammoth, Feral Mammoth · Dark Elves: Cold One Chariots, Bloodwrack Shrine
- Missile fire — armour 30, no shielde.g. Ratling Guns, Stormfiends (Ratling Cannons), Chameleon Stalkers · Dark Elves: Black Ark Corsairs (Handbows), Darkshards
- Heavy large units — infantry-sized, mass 90e.g. Dread Maw, Thunderbarge, Steam Tank · Dark Elves: Black Dragon, Kharibdyss
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
Match-ups people search for: Shades vs Darkshards · Shades vs Devotees of Slaanesh · Shades vs Sisters of Avelorn
Who can field it
- Dark Elves · Naggarond
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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.