The Bolt-fiends (Darkshards – Shields)
Missile infantry· Missile Infantry· Tier 2· 90 models at Ultra sizeRegiment of Renown
Comes with The Queen & The Crone(Warhammer II)
Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.
The Bolt-fiends (Darkshards – Shields) are Dark Elves missile infantry: 5,670 HP across 90 models, armour 30, melee attack 24, melee defence 31, weapon strength 24, range 145 m, missile damage 1,800 per 10 s for the whole unit. It costs 850 in the campaign and in multiplayer. They come with The Queen & The Crone. Unit key wh2_dlc10_def_inf_the_bolt_fiends_ror_0. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
Health
63 per model
5,670
Armour
shield blocks 55% of small-arms missiles from the front (not artillery)
30
Leadership
66
Speed
33
Melee attack
24
Melee defence
31
Weapon strength
19 base + 5 armour-piercing
24
Charge bonus
6
Ranged
Range
145 m
Ammunition
18
Missile damage
3 base + 11 AP, 2 projectiles per shot
14
Reload time
14 s
Damage per 10 s
20
Attributes
- Hide (forest)
This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.
Abilities
- Murderous ProwessAugment · +20% Armour-Piercing Missile Damage, +25% Charge Bonus…passiveMurderous ProwessAugment+20% Armour-Piercing Missile Damage+25% Charge Bonus+25% Melee Attack+15 LeadershipPassive · Duration 90 s · 1 useSlaughter! There is no greater glorification of Khaine, the God of Murder, and no more popular form of worship – or indeed daily exercise – amongst the Dark Elves.
Counters
Good against
- Heavily armoured units — 11 of 14 missile damage armour-piercinge.g. Steam Tank, Blessed Bastiladon (Solar Engine), Rotting Leviathan · Dark Elves: Cold One Dread Knights, Cold One Chariots
- Lightly armoured units without shields — 1,800 missile damage per 10 s (whole unit)e.g. Curs'd Ettin, Exalted Plaguebearers of Nurgle, Zombies · Dark Elves: Feral Bears, Shades
Vulnerable to
- Bonus vs infantry — infantry-sizede.g. Doom-Flayers, War Mammoth, Feral Mammoth · Dark Elves: Cold One Chariots, Bloodwrack Shrine
- Heavy large units — infantry-sized, mass 100e.g. Dread Maw, Thunderbarge, Steam Tank · Dark Elves: Black Dragon, Kharibdyss
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
Who can field it
- Dark Elves · Naggarond
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.