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The half-feral, gore-obsessed Skin Wolves, armoured so their slaughter may continue unabated.

Skin Wolves (Armoured) are a World Walkers Norsca monstrous infantry unit introduced in Total War: Warhammer with Norsca (DLC).

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Description[ | ]

Many are the dark horrors of twisted flesh and nightmares made real that the Ruinous Powers have visited upon the world; few though are as strange as the Skin Wolves. Witch-cursed and Chaos-tainted, these creatures are half-feral and subject to savage appetites. They were previously men and women who carried within them the tainted blood of the mutated beast, which was somehow unleashed. Half-insane with insatiable hunger, a Skin Wolf has shredded flaps of skin and chunks of bloody gristle clinging to it, left behind by the unfortunate individual who the fully-formed humanoid wolf-thing ripped itself from. It is these clinging shrouds of skin that give the beasts their common name.

Attributes[ | ]

  • Wh dlc08 nor skin wolves icon Skin Wolf
  • Armoured: Armoured units can block damage from any source apart from Modifier icon armour piercingArmour-Piercing damage.
  • Anti-Large: Anti-Large: Anti-large units have an advantage against targets that are at least as large as a horse. This advantage can be a Modifier icon bonus vs largedamage bonus against large targets or an attack that focuses on a very small area. However, some units are simply better against large targets because their attacks are slow and easy to dodge by skilled melee combatants.
  • Frenzy: Units with Wh main unit passive frenzyfrenzy cause more damage while their Morale characterleadership is high.
  • Regeneration: Wh main unit passive regenerationRegeneration allows a unit to heal while in battle. Fire is known to harm this healing process, so be warned that Modifier icon flaming channelflaming attacks will cause more damage to units with Regeneration.

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Armored Skin Wolves take the already stellar attributes of the Skin Wolves and give them significantly more armor. While not the most heavily armored unit in the game, this does give them a boost to survivability against ranged attacks as well as being swarmed by infantry. An all around strong and versatile unit, Skin Wolves are invaluable to a Norscan army.

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