"From the forest’s depths they appear without warning, a fluttering cacophony of horrible injury and gory death."
- —Description of cave bats in Total War: Warhammer III.
Cave bats as depicted in Total War: Warhammer III.
Cave bats are a type of fell bat often employed as beasts of war by the armies of Kislev and the Wood Elves of Athel Loren.
With a body as long as a grown man, cave bats are a fearsome sight. They are darker than midnight and silent as death, even when in full flight. In fact, the only noises that a cave bat makes on the hunt are horrible gobbling slurps when it sinks its distended mouth into living flesh.
In truth, a cave bat bears as much resemblance to an ordinary bat as a maddened lion does to a domestic cat. Those who have encountered them, and lived, tell how they hunt with unerring accuracy, swooping down to knock knights from their saddles or pick off lone warriors unawares.
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- 1: Total War: Warhammer III (PC Game)