Wild Riders (Shields)
Melee cavalry· Melee Cavalry· Tier 3· 40 models (crew of 60) at Ultra size
Comes with Realm of the Wood Elves(Warhammer I)
Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.
Wild Riders (Shields) are Wood Elves melee cavalry: 4,760 HP across 40 models, armour 40, melee attack 34, melee defence 31, weapon strength 40. It costs 1,100 in the campaign and in multiplayer. They come with Realm of the Wood Elves. Unit key wh_dlc05_wef_cav_wild_riders_1. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
Health
119 per model
4,760
Armour
shield blocks 55% of small-arms missiles from the front (not artillery)
40
Leadership
70
Speed
90
Melee attack
34
Melee defence
31
Weapon strength
27 base + 13 armour-piercing
40
Charge bonus
62
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.
- Vanguard Deployment
This unit can deploy outside the deployment zone.
- Hide (forest)
This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.
- Woodsman
This unit can pass through trees.
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
Good against
- Light infantry-sized units — large, mass 1,300e.g. Exalted Plaguebearers of Nurgle, Zombies, Zombie Pirate Deckhand Mob · Wood Elves: Bladesingers, Wildwood Rangers
Vulnerable to
- Bonus vs large — large (cavalry-sized or bigger)e.g. Bone Giant, Feral Troglodon, Warp Lightning Cannons · Wood Elves: Zoats, Wardancers (Asrai Spears)
- Magical attacks — physical resistance +20%e.g. Stormfiends (Warpfire Projectors), Warpfire Throwers, Death Globe Bombardiers · Wood Elves: Deepwood Scouts (Swiftshiver Shards), Glade Guard (Hagbane Tips)
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: Casket of Souls (167.41× faster), War Wagons (Mortars) (23.43× faster), War Wagons (19.35× faster)
Loses to, at a similar price: Chaos Knights of Tzeentch (10.38× slower), Chaos Knights of Nurgle (9.88× slower), Chaos Knights (8.76× 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 1,100 multiplayer gold. Wood Elf units ranked.
Who can field it
- Wood Elves · Talsyn
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.