Enemies

Enemies are all hostile creatures encountered by the Heroes in Vermintide 2. Enemies can vary greatly in size, strength, durability, but also in their attack patterns and behaviour. On top of this, some enemies have unique abilities, which increases their threat level greatly. For the players to survive, it is vital to know what enemy you face and which tactics to use accordingly.

General Information

Factions

Factions are race divisions of enemies. All base game enemies belong to either The Rotblood Tribe (often simply called "Chaos") or the Skaven. Beastmen were added into the game with the Winds of Magic DLC.

There are two 'Power Vs.' charm properties for factions. 'Power Vs. Skaven' is self-explanatory while 'Power Vs. Chaos' increases power against both Beastmen and Rotbloods.

Hit Points

Enemies have set hit points based on the game difficulty. Every enemy has their own hit point value, which can be found on their individual page.

Headshots / Weak Spots

All enemies take increased damage from headshots as a headshot multiplier

Stagger resistance

Enemies have a stagger resistance stat based on the game difficulty. This value determines whether an enemy is staggered when hit by a certain attack. Stronger enemies generally have a higher stagger resistance.

Mass

Enemies have a mass stat based on the game difficulty. Mass determines the amount of bodies a weapon is able to cleave before stopping in its swing.

Patrols

Facing a lone Stormvermin is challenging enough, but all too often these vermin group together in patrolling warbands. Such encounters are challenging to the point that even veteran warriors are known to choose discretion over valour, allowing the patrol to pass rather than confronting it head-on.

Patrols are large groups of elites and horde enemies which march around set paths on maps. If a hero gets too close to a patrol or attacks them, they will aggro onto the offending hero; additionally, if their only target(s) die or are invisible they will go back to patrolling. Patrols can easily be avoided by staying away from their pathing.This strategy becomes more viable on higher difficulties as the number of elites per patrol increases.

Enemy Groups

An enemy grouping is a collection of enemy units which share similar traits/roles as one another.

Horde Mobs

The weakest type of enemy, horde units are are found as ambient spawn and in hordes. There are two infantry units per faction, with unique variants of some

• Slave Rat

• Clanrat (Shielded)
• Fanatic
• Marauder (Bulwark)
• Ungor (Archers)
• Gor

Elites

The term 'Elite' refers to enemies who can be pinged but are not technically Specials. They are harder to kill and hit harder than regular Infantry units. Elites might be armoured, such as Stormvermin and Chaos Warriors, while others like the Plague Monk and Savage mainly deal high damage. Elites can also form patrols that roam the map and can be extremely dangerous.

• Stormvermin (Shieldvermin)
• Plague Monk
• Mauler
• Chaos Warrior
• Savage
• Bestigor

Specials

Special enemies have a variety of unique abilities, such as the Packmaster's ability to snatch a hero and drag them away, or the Globadier's ability to throw gas bombs at the party. The details of each Special's abilities are too many to list here and are detailed on their individual pages.

• Gutter Runner
• Packmaster
• Poison Wind Globadier
• Ratling Gunner
• Warpfire Thrower
• Blightstormer
• Lifeleech
• Standard Bearer

Monsters

The large, powerful enemies found in the game are called Monsters. These enemies spawn randomly or sometimes as a scripted event. Monsters have an enormous health pool, hit hard and can even fling players across the map. It usually takes a full party to take one of these enemies, and even then, beginning players can expect casualties. When a talent says it activates when a Boss dies, Monsters are included in this. Trolls, Stormfiends, Ogre Rats and Chaos Spawn are all examples of monsters.

Bosses

Bosses are large, powerful foes enemies that appear during scripted events, usually found at the end of special Boss Missions. They are difficult to take down and have a variety of unique abilities.

Armour Classes

The armour class of an enemy determines its resilience to certain damage, as well as which 'Power vs'-weapon property works against this enemy. There are four armour types in the game.

Infantry

Unarmoured enemies wear no or little armour, making all parts of their bodies susceptible to all attacks. The head can still be hit for bonus damage. Among others, all Infantry enemies have this class.

Power vs Infantry does bonus damage to Unarmoured enemies.

Armoured

Armour deflects blows and negates damage, so it is best to avoid striking it. When an attack is completely deflected by armor, a small red skaven-shield shortly shows up below the cursor of the player, indicating no damage is done. All Armoured units are still vulnerable for head-shots, so you should always aim to hit the head with both ranged and melee. Though there are ways to penetrate armour, keep in mind that it always negates a part of the damage done. The following methods allow heroes to bypass armour to different extents, depending on the attack used:

• Critical hits
• Heavy Attacks (except bashes)
• Strength Potions
• Weapon attacks with the Armour Piercing characteristic
• Weapons with the Shield Breaking or Ignore Shields characteristic

Super Armour

Super Armour is a sub-class of the Armoured class. The Chaos Warrior, Standard Bearer, and three bosses (Skarrik, Gatekeeper Naglfahr, and Bödvarr Ribspreader) has super armour. The main difference is that their armour negates more damage from attacks that should bypass it (listed above). This means that aiming for weak points becomes even more critical for dealing damage.

Power vs Armoured does bonus damage to Armoured enemies.

Berserker

Berserkers are a sub-group of Elites consisting of Plague Monks and Savages.

Power vs Berserkers does bonus damage to Berserker enemies.

Monster

Enemies with this armour class have a natural defense against damage and have high stagger resistance: only certain Hero abilities and bombs can stagger them. All Monsters have this armour class.

Power vs Monsters does bonus damage to Resistant enemies.

Enemy Table

Name	Faction	Type	Armour Class	Weak Spot	Man-Sized	Friendly Fire
Skavenslave	Skaven	Infantry	Infantry	Head	✔
Fanatic	Chaos	Infantry	Infantry	Head	✔
Clanrat	Skaven	Infantry	Infantry	Head	✔
Clanrat (Shield)	Skaven	Infantry	Infantry	Head	✔
Raider	Chaos	Infantry	Infantry	Head	✔
Bulwark	Chaos	Infantry	Infantry	Head	✔
Gor	Beastmen	Infantry	Infantry	Head	✔
Ungor	Beastmen	Infantry	Infantry	Head	✔	✔/X (Ranged)
Plague Monk	Skaven	Elite	Berserker	Head	✔
Savage	Chaos	Elite	Berserker	Head	✔
Mauler	Chaos	Elite	Infantry	Head (Armoured)	✔
Stormvermin	Skaven	Elite	Armoured	Head	✔
Stormvermin (Shield)	Skaven	Elite	Armoured	Head	✔
Chaos Warrior	Chaos	Elite	Armoured	Head
Bestigor	Beastmen	Elite	Armoured	Head (Armoured)	✔
Ratling Gunner	Skaven	Special	Armoured	Head	✔	✔
Gutter Runner	Skaven	Special	Infantry	Head	✔
Poison Wind Globadier	Skaven	Special	Infantry	Head	✔	✔
Warpfire Thrower	Skaven	Special	Armoured	Head	✔	✔
Packmaster	Skaven	Special	Monster	Head	✔
Sack Rat	Skaven	Special	Infantry	Head	✔
Lifeleech	Chaos	Special	Infantry	Head	✔
Blightstormer	Chaos	Special	Infantry	Head	✔	✔
Standard Bearer	Beastmen	Special	Armoured	Head
Rat Ogre	Skaven	Monster	Monster	Head		✔
Stormfiend	Skaven	Monster	Monster	Back, Head (Armoured)		✔
Chaos Spawn	Chaos	Monster	Monster	Head		?
Bile Troll	Chaos	Monster	Monster	Head		✔
Minotaur	Beastmen	Monster	Infantry	Head		✔
Burblespue Halescourge	Chaos	Boss	Monster	Head		?
Skarrik Spinemanglr	Skaven	Boss	Super Armor	Head		✔
Bödvarr Ribspreader	Chaos	Boss	Super Armor	Head		✔
Gatekeeper Naglfahr	Chaos	Boss	Super Armor	Head
Deathrattler	Skaven	Boss	Monster	Back, Head (Armoured)		✔
Rasknitt	Skaven	Boss	Infantry	Head		✔

Unused Enemies

Some enemy names and models are found in the data, but are unused thus far. These include a Chaos Zombie with a lying, bloated corpse-like body, a Plague Sorcerer, Tentacle Sorcerer (which looks exactly like the Lifeleech) and Chaos Tentacle with a simple blob as body. Additionally, there is a Stormvermin Champion model, looking exactly like Chieftain Krench, one of the bosses of Vermintide 1. It is unknown whether or not these enemies will be added at a later date.