Exalted Bloodletters of Khorne

are a and melee infantry unit introduced in Total War: Warhammer III. In Immortal Empires, they're also available to the and .
== Recruitment ==
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** Unlocked with: Khornate Furnace
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** Unlocked with: Keep of Khorne
** Khorne Glory: 1760
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** By upgrading Bloodletters of Khorne to Exalted Bloodletters of Khorne with the Warband Upgrades
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** By upgrading Bloodletters of Khorne to Exalted Bloodletters of Khorne with the Warband Upgrades
** By activating the The Blood God's Grudge when Khorne is Ascendant in the Great Game and recruiting it in the Gifted Units
== Description ==
Khorne’s Chosen – the Naked Slayers, the Takers of Skulls, deadly warriors believed to have been foremost amongst the Blood God's followers in mortal life and whose will is as implacable and blood-hungry as Khorne himself. Exalted Bloodletters gather in regiments, chanting their brutal praises to Khorne. In the fashion of the warriors they are believed to have once been, each unit marches beneath a gore-soaked banner upon which the names of their victims are inscribed.
== Attributes ==
== Unit Abilities ==
=== Passive Abilities ===
* Daemonic Instability
* Banished!
* Hellblade
== Strategy ==
Superior in every way to regular Bloodletters, Exalted Bloodletters can either replace or augment your armies once you have reached the middle to end of the game. However, their very high upkeep cost means that you will need to continually play aggressively in order to keep your Bloodletting satisfied (and upkeep down in turn) and continually sack enemy settlements to make up for their high cost. 
Exalted Bloodletters excel at killing high-armour, high-value units. Their relatively low armour means they are less vulnerable to late game, high AP units. They are especially effective at killing roving halberd-wielding units units such as those found in Warriors of Chaos armies, effectively clearing the way for your monstrous units and cavalry. They are somewhat less effective against late-game, non-AP units such as Ironbreakers and Chaos Chosen (Shields), although they will still generally come out on-top, albeit after suffering substantial losses. 
Once this unit reaches 60 kills, they gain the 'Hellblade" buff, which increases Base Weapon and AP damage by 20%, effectively increasing damage by 40% before enemy mitigation factors are taken into account. However this buff isn't as strong as it appears, providing only a few extra points of damage and is therefore of only marginal benefit. The 60 kill threshold required for the buff can take sometime to build, and Exalted Bloodletters require more micromanagement that other melee units in order to gain this buff early in the battle, and then utilise it effectively throughout. 
Players will often use this unit to target cheap, plentiful units in order to build the Hellblade buff, which they then will direct at high-value units. However given a cheap units low-leadership potential means that they will generally rout before the Exalted Bloodletters are able to gain the buff. This can be disastrous as the routing units will draw the Exalted Bloodletters away from the main fight, or through the backlines where they become vulnerable to cavalry, or swamped by other infantry and unable to 'rove' effectively. This is especially noticeable when facing Skaven or Greenskin armies, and Wurzags high Physical Resistance "Savage Orc" armies can pose a serious threat to the low-armour, but high AP Exalted Bloodletters. As well this, the AI's penchant for targeting this unit with cavalry, as well as to guard it's flanks with cavalry can make flanking and exploiting gaps in the line difficult to achieve. 
Their low armour values also make them vulnerable to cheap missile units such as Skaven Slingers and Goblin Archers, especially when the army they are in has low 'Winds of Magic' storage and thus reducing their 'Physical Resistance' by 10%.
However, with some careful observation, specific targeting and some anti-large flanking support, this unit can become a nigh-unstoppable death-squad, able to chew through almost all other infantry, and come out ready for more. 
Category:Daemons of Chaos units
Category:Daemons of Chaos melee infantry units
Category:Warriors of Chaos units
Category:Warriors of Chaos melee infantry units
Category:Gifted Units