The Frolickers Bubonic (Nurglings)
Melee infantry· Swarm· Tier 2· 60 models at Ultra sizeRegiment of Renown
Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.
The Frolickers Bubonic (Nurglings) are Nurgle, Daemons of Chaos and Warriors of Chaos melee infantry: 9,300 HP across 60 models, armour 0, melee attack 34, melee defence 31, weapon strength 28. It costs 550 in the campaign and in multiplayer. Unit key wh3_twa10_nur_inf_nurglings_ror. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
Health
155 per model
9,300
Armour
0
Leadership
60
Speed
34
Melee attack
34
Melee defence
31
Weapon strength
24 base + 4 armour-piercing
28
Charge bonus
14
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.
- Daemonic
Daemonic units cannot be routed, but take damage when their Leadership is low. Daemonic units also have: Physical Resistance Fear and Terror Immunity
- Vanguard Deployment
This unit can deploy outside the deployment zone.
- Hide (forest)
This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.
Abilities
- Daemonic InstabilityDirect Damage · Causes damage to selfpassiveDaemonic InstabilityDirect DamageCauses damage to selfPassiveAs the Daemon's courage falters, their mortal form crumbles and fades from this reality.
- Banished!Direct Damage · Causes severe damage to selfpassiveBanished!Direct DamageCauses severe damage to selfPassiveOnce the Daemon's courage has failed them, they will fall back through the portal to the Chaos Realm whence they belong.
- BlisterbackAugment · +10 Melee Damage Reflection, +8 LeadershippassiveBlisterbackAugment+10 Melee Damage Reflection+8 LeadershipPassiveBlisters bubble up from bulbous flesh, so assailants risk being doused in festering filth with every strike.
Counters
Good against
- Units with physical resistance — magical melee attackse.g. Hexwraiths, Cairn Wraiths, Syreens · Nurgle: Soul Grinder of Nurgle, Great Unclean One
Vulnerable to
- Bonus vs infantry — infantry-sizede.g. Doom-Flayers, War Mammoth, Feral Mammoth · Nurgle: Plague Ogres, Toad Dragon
- Magical attacks — physical resistance +20%e.g. Stormfiends (Warpfire Projectors), Warpfire Throwers, Death Globe Bombardiers · Nurgle: Great Unclean One, Soul Grinder of Nurgle
- Missile fire — armour 0, no shielde.g. Ratling Guns, Stormfiends (Ratling Cannons), Chameleon Stalkers · Nurgle: Exalted Plaguebearers of Nurgle, Plague Drones of Nurgle (Death's Heads)
- Heavy large units — infantry-sized, mass 125e.g. Dread Maw, Thunderbarge, Steam Tank · Nurgle: Toad Dragon, Great Unclean One
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 (71.88× faster), Eshin Triads (3.07× faster), Warp-Grinders (3.04× faster)
Loses to, at a similar price: Longbeards (3.67× slower), Marauders of Tzeentch (3.50× slower), Chaos Dwarf Warriors (3.35× 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. Nurgle units ranked.
Patch changes
- Melee attack31 → 34(+3)
Who can field it
- Daemons of Chaos · Legion of Chaos
- Nurgle · Poxmakers of Nurgle
- Warriors of Chaos · Warhost of the Apocalypse · 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: Warriors of Chaos 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.