Skeleton Horsemen
Melee cavalry· Spear Cavalry· Tier 1· 60 models at Ultra size
Comes with Tomb Kings(Warhammer II)
Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.
Skeleton Horsemen are Tomb Kings and Undead Legions melee cavalry: 5,340 HP across 60 models, armour 30, melee attack 24, melee defence 26, weapon strength 28. It costs 400 in multiplayer. In the campaign Host of Nagash pays 400. They come with Tomb Kings. Unit key wh2_dlc09_tmb_cav_skeleton_horsemen_0. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
Health
89 per model
5,340
Armour
shield blocks 30% of small-arms missiles from the front (not artillery)
30
Leadership
45
Speed
76
Melee attack
24
Melee defence
26
Weapon strength
21 base + 7 armour-piercing
28
Charge bonus
34
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.
- Vanguard Deployment
This unit can deploy outside the deployment zone.
- Hide (forest)
This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.
- Undead
Undead units cannot be routed, but take damage when their Leadership is broken. Undead units also have: Fear and Terror Immunity Undead units may also have their hit points restored by special characters such as the Vampire Counts Necromancer.
Abilities
- Realm of Souls IRegeneration · Replenishes hit points of combatants, Heals injured before resurrectingpassiveRealm of Souls IRegenerationReplenishes hit points of combatantsHeals injured before resurrectingPassive · Duration 7 s · 1 useFrom within the Realm of Souls – Nehekhara’s revered afterlife – deceased warriors are called forth and bound to mortal remains, to find purpose once again through war.
- Realm of Souls IIRegeneration · Replenishes hit points of combatants, Heals injured before resurrectingpassiveRealm of Souls IIRegenerationReplenishes hit points of combatantsHeals injured before resurrectingPassive · Duration 14 s · 1 useThe spirits of warriors slain can be summoned from the Realm of Souls and bound to corporeal bodies, so that they may fight for the Tomb Kings as they did in life.
- Realm of Souls IIIRegeneration · Replenishes hit points of combatants, Heals injured before resurrectingpassiveRealm of Souls IIIRegenerationReplenishes hit points of combatantsHeals injured before resurrectingPassive · Duration 21 s · 1 useThe Liche Priests use the very breath of Nehekhara’s gods to reach into the Realm of Souls, retrieving the spirits of dead soldiers for binding and eternal service to their Tomb King’s will.
- DisintegratingDirect DamagepassiveDisintegratingDirect DamagePassiveThe Dark Magic that holds these subjects together has failed. As the Necromantic energy flows out of them, nothing is left but a pile of iron and bones in the sand.
- CrumblingDirect DamagepassiveCrumblingDirect DamagePassiveIn the blasted desert of deepest Nehekhara, the dead rarely remain so. Those dragged back to screaming, clanking Unlife are bound forever to the Tomb King whose will they exist only to serve.
Counters
Vulnerable to
- Bonus vs large — large (cavalry-sized or bigger)e.g. Feral Troglodon, Warp Lightning Cannons, Blessed Stegadon · Tomb Kings: Bone Giant, Necrosphinx
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: Corpse Cart (Balefire) (170.63× faster), Corpse Cart (Unholy Lodestone) (170.63× faster), Corpse Cart (61.43× faster)
Loses to, at a similar price: Goblin Wolf Riders (1.44× slower), Forest Goblin Spider Riders (1.20× slower), Peasant Horsemen (1.15× 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 400 multiplayer gold. Tomb Kings units ranked.
Patch changes
- Custom battle: now in the Undead Legions roster
Who can field it
- Tomb Kings · Khemri
- Undead Legions · Host of Nagash
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.
The game also has 1 summoned or scripted copy of this unit that no building or mercenary pool recruits (wh2_dlc09_tmb_cav_skeleton_horsemen_0_summoned).
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.