Wyrd Spawn (Chaos Spawn)

Wyrd Spawn
Overview
ID	wh_pro04_chs_mon_chaos_spawn_ror_0
Race	Warriors of Chaos
Category	Monstrous Infantry
Unit size	Small: 4 Medium: 8 Large: 12 Ultra: 16
Strategic
Tier unit Cost (MP): 1300 (1300) Turns: 1 Upkeep: 325 Weight: Heavy Size: 16
Tactical
Health: 8768 (548 per model) Barrier: 1000 Leadership: 100 Speed: 42 Melee Attack: 45 Melee Defence: 36 Charge Bonus: 30
Melee Weapons
Base Damage: 118 Armour-Piercing Damage: 42 Melee Interval: 3.8 s Melee Reach: 2 Bonus vs. Buildings: +1% Magical Attacks: Yes Sundered Armour: Yes
Protection
Armor: 10 (7.5% reduction)
Attributes
Siege Attacker: This unit can attack gates or walls, allowing you to instantly launch a siege battle without having to wait for siege towers or battering rams to be built. Can Cause Fear: This unit frightens all enemy units, reducing their leadership when nearby. It is also immune to fear. Fear penalties do not stack. Can Cause Terror: This unit can cause terror, making its melee target rout for a short time. Units that have terror are immune to terror and fear themselves. Hide (forest): This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close. Unbreakable: This unit does not suffer any form of leadership loss and will never rout. Mark of Tzeentch: A unit with the Mark of Tzeentch has: ▲ Barrier ▲ Magical Attacks Physical Resistance: 20%. Damage of physical (non-magical) attacks is reduced by this amount.
Resistances
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Former champions with mutant gifts received in the Realm of Chaos itself, summoned back to terrorise the mortal world.

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Wyrd Spawn (Chaos Spawn) are a Warriors of Chaos, Daemons of Chaos and Tzeentch Regiment of Renown monstrous infantry unit introduced in Total War: Warhammer for the Foundation Update.

Recruitment

• Recruited with: Regiments of Renown Recruitment panel

Description

A warrior who is visited by too many gifts of the Dark Gods eventually succumbs to madness and mutation. His altered body reaches a point where reason no longer sustains it, and he wails in anguish as his flesh ripples, sprouts and writhes, undergoing the most profound and final of changes. Truly, Chaos Spawn have a thousand faces and forms.

Attributes

• Monstrous Infantry
• ▲ Barrier: This unit has a barrier that absorbs damage until depleted. When not taking damage, the barrier will slowly replenish. Maximum barrier health is proporsional to remaining unit health.
• ▲ Anti-Infantry: Anti-infantry units have an advantage against targets that are smaller than a horse. This advantage can be a damage bonus against small targets, superior weight used to smash through lighter enemies, or an explosive attack from range that effects a large area.
• ▲ Armour-Sundering: The armour-splitting attacks of this unit can significantly weaken the target's armour.
• ▲ Unbreakable: This unit does not suffer any form of leadership loss and will never rout.

Strategy

The following applies only to The Old World or Mortal Empires campaigns:

• This a Chaos Spawn with 15% Physical Resistance, Sundered Armour contact effect and the Woodsman attribute.
• This makes them both tankier and more effective against armour, on top of their melee attack and defence boosts from being a regiment of renown. This makes them quite effective and unbreakable fighters, but they retain the same weaknesses of no armour and being vulnerable to missiles.

In Warhammer III, this unit was modified a bit with the Warriors of Chaos Rework:

• It now has 20% Physical Resistance.
• It can Cause Terror
• The Woodsman attribute was removed
• And finally it has the Mark of Tzeentch granting it Barrier and Magical Attacks.

Making it far more survivable than it was in its previous incarnation and able to deal with units with Physical Resistance.