Spearmen-at-Arms (Shields)
Melee infantry· Spear Infantry· Tier 1· 120 models at Ultra size
Comes with Repansefree(Warhammer II)
Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.
Spearmen-at-Arms (Shields) are Bretonnia melee infantry: 7,800 HP across 120 models, armour 30, melee attack 20, melee defence 38, weapon strength 22. It costs 300 in the campaign and in multiplayer. They come with Repanse. Unit key wh_main_brt_inf_spearmen_at_arms. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
Health
65 per model
7,800
Armour
shield blocks 55% of small-arms missiles from the front (not artillery)
30
Leadership
45
Speed
30
Melee attack
20
Melee defence
38
Weapon strength
17 base + 5 armour-piercing, +15 vs large
22
Charge bonus
4
Attributes
- Charge Defence vs. Large
When bracing, this unit negates the charge bonus of any large attacker.
- Charge Reflection
When bracing, this unit causes additional damage when attacking charging enemies.
- Hide (forest)
This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.
- Peasant
A unit with the Peasant Attribute will gain increased leadership if a unit with the Knight Attribute is nearby.
Abilities
- The Peasant's DutyAugment · +8 LeadershippassiveThe Peasant's DutyAugment+8 LeadershipPassiveThou shalt give unto thine glorious liege the taxes that he requires. Thou shalt labour all but feast days, and no more than a tenth-share shall you keep for kith and kin. Rejoice! For a Knight of Bretonnia provides your shield!
Counters
Good against
- Large units — bonus vs large 15e.g. Rogue Idol, Dread Saurian, Khemric Titan · Bretonnia: Royal Hippogryph Knights, Grail Guardians
Vulnerable to
- Bonus vs infantry — infantry-sizede.g. Doom-Flayers, War Mammoth, Feral Mammoth · Bretonnia: Foot Squires
- Heavy large units — infantry-sized, mass 100e.g. Dread Maw, Thunderbarge, Steam Tank · Bretonnia: Royal Hippogryph Knights, Blessed Field Trebuchets
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: Nurglings (1.68× faster), Zombie Pirate Deckhand Mob (Polearms) (1.53× faster), Miners (1.34× faster)
Loses to, at a similar price: Men-at-Arms (1.87× slower), Men-at-Arms (Shields) (1.79× slower), Zombie Pirate Deckhand Mob (1.64× 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 300 multiplayer gold. Bretonnia units ranked.
Who can field it
- Bretonnia · Couronne
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.