Silver Helms (Shields)
Melee cavalry· Shock Cavalry· Tier 3· 60 models at Ultra size
Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.
Silver Helms (Shields) are High Elves melee cavalry: 6,240 HP across 60 models, armour 100, melee attack 34, melee defence 32, weapon strength 32. It costs 950 in the campaign and 1,000 in multiplayer. Unit key wh2_main_hef_cav_silver_helms_1. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
Health
104 per model
6,240
Armour
shield blocks 30% of small-arms missiles from the front (not artillery)
100
Leadership
72
Speed
84
Melee attack
34
Melee defence
32
Weapon strength
23 base + 9 armour-piercing
32
Charge bonus
64
Attributes
- Hide (forest)
This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.
Abilities
- Martial ProwessAugment · +2 Melee Attack, +12 Melee DefencepassiveMartial ProwessAugment+2 Melee Attack+12 Melee DefencePassiveHigh Elves excel as warriors, having trained in martial disciplines for the equivalent of many men's lifetimes.
Counters
Good against
- Light infantry-sized units — large, mass 1,100e.g. Exalted Plaguebearers of Nurgle, Zombies, Zombie Pirate Deckhand Mob · High Elves: Athel Tamarha Faithbearers, Phoenix Guard
Vulnerable to
- Bonus vs large — large (cavalry-sized or bigger)e.g. Bone Giant, Feral Troglodon, Warp Lightning Cannons · High Elves: Eagle Claw Bolt Throwers, Merwyrm
- Armour-piercing — armour 100e.g. Warp-Doom Magma-Cannon, Luminark of Hysh, Little Grom · High Elves: Star Dragon, Merwyrm
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: Casket of Souls (462.32× faster), War Wagons (Mortars) (64.96× faster), War Wagons (53.64× faster)
Loses to, at a similar price: Questing Knights (3.87× slower), Chaos Knights (3.67× slower), Knights of the White Wolf (3.49× 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. High Elf units ranked.
Who can field it
- High Elves · Lothern
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.