Spearmen (Shields)
Melee infantry· Spear Infantry· Tier 1· 120 models at Ultra size
Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.
Spearmen (Shields) are Empire melee infantry: 8,280 HP across 120 models, armour 30, melee attack 20, melee defence 42, weapon strength 25. It costs 350 in the campaign and in multiplayer. Unit key wh_main_emp_inf_spearmen_1. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
Health
69 per model
8,280
Armour
shield blocks 35% of small-arms missiles from the front (not artillery)
30
Leadership
60
Speed
30
Melee attack
20
Melee defence
42
Weapon strength
19 base + 6 armour-piercing, +15 vs large
25
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.
Counters
Good against
- Large units — bonus vs large 15e.g. Rogue Idol, Dread Saurian, Khemric Titan · The Empire: Amethyst Land Ship, Land Ship
Vulnerable to
- Bonus vs infantry — infantry-sizede.g. Doom-Flayers, War Mammoth, Feral Mammoth · The Empire: Steam Tank, Greatswords
- Heavy large units — infantry-sized, mass 100e.g. Dread Maw, Thunderbarge, Thundertusk · The Empire: Steam Tank, Amethyst Land Ship
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: Grail Reliquae (677.36× faster), Miners (Blasting Charges) (3.92× faster), Pigback Riders (3.71× faster)
Loses to, at a similar price: Men-at-Arms (1.35× slower), Men-at-Arms (Shields) (1.30× slower), Goblins (1.11× 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 350 multiplayer gold. Empire units ranked.
Who can field it
- The Empire · Reikland
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.