Swords of Ulric (Swordsmen)
Melee infantry· Sword Infantry· Tier 2· 120 models at Ultra size
Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.
Swords of Ulric (Swordsmen) are Empire melee infantry: 8,280 HP across 120 models, armour 30, melee attack 34, melee defence 32, weapon strength 31. It costs 550 in the campaign and in multiplayer. Unit key wh2_dlc13_emp_inf_swordsmen_ror_0. 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
34
Melee defence
32
Weapon strength
23 base + 8 armour-piercing
31
Charge bonus
18
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.
- Hide (forest)
This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.
Abilities
- FrenzyAugment · +10% Charge Bonus, +10 Melee Attack…passiveFrenzyAugment+10% Charge Bonus+10 Melee Attack+10% Armour-Piercing Weapon Damage+10% Base Weapon DamagePassiveSome warriors care not for their own personal safety, and so work themselves into a whirlwind of destruction and mindless violence!
Counters
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 (134.64× faster), Warp-Grinders (6.75× faster), Eshin Triads (3.53× faster)
Loses to, at a similar price: Hobgoblin Cutthroats (1.73× slower), Orc Boyz (1.66× slower), Marauders of Khorne (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 550 multiplayer gold.
Who can field it
- The Empire · Reikland · extended roster
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.
Extended roster: every race above has this unit only through campaign_exclusive rows of units_custom_battle_permissions — CA's note: such units are “filtered out of matchmaking and are generally disabled when unit caps setting is enabled” (“Unable to recruit with unit caps enabled”). So: Custom Battle with Unit caps off, at the multiplayer cost, but not in ranked battles. Race rankings and best-unit lists leave such a unit out for those races.
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.