Unofficial fan reference · game data patch 9.0.4 (Oct 15, 2026)
Ancient Stegadon unit card

Ancient Stegadon

Monster· Missile Monster· Tier 4· 1 model (crew of 5) at Ultra size

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Ancient Stegadon is Lizardmen monster: 9,894 HP, armour 130, melee attack 26, melee defence 32, weapon strength 480, range 115 m, missile damage 550 per 10 s for the whole unit. It costs 1,950 in the campaign and 1,900 in multiplayer. Unit key wh2_main_lzd_mon_ancient_stegadon. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.

Health

9,894

top 36% of class

Armour

130

top 6% of class

Leadership

75

top 39% of class

Speed

50

bottom 23% of class

Melee attack

26

bottom 3% of class

Melee defence

32

bottom 30% of class

Weapon strength

140 base + 340 armour-piercing, +18 vs infantry

480

bottom 44% of class

Charge bonus

70

top 9% of class

Ranged

Range

115 m

bottom 22% of class

Ammunition

10

bottom 1% of class

Missile damage

41 base + 14 AP, 8 projectiles per shot

55

bottom 19% of class

Reload time

8 s

top 44% of class

Damage per 10 s

550

top 33% of class

Attributes

  • Causes Fear

    This unit frightens all enemy units, reducing their leadership when nearby. It is also immune to fear. Fear penalties do not stack.

  • Causes Terror

    This unit can cause terror, making its melee target rout for a short time. Units that cause terror are immune to terror and fear themselves.

  • Fire Whilst Moving

    This unit can fire while on the move.

  • Wallbreaker

    Allows the unit to attack and destroy walls in melee. This attribute also adds a +50% damage multiplier against buildings.

Abilities

  • Primal InstinctsAugment · +15% Charge Bonus, +5 Melee Attack…passive
  • WoundsHex · -10% Speed, -20% Armour-Piercing Weapon Damage…passive

Counters

Good against

Vulnerable to

Computed from base unit-card values (no skills, items or abilities), one rule per line; examples are units with the most of that trait. How counters are worked out · Try it in the combat calculator

Gold for gold

COMPUTEDAt equal gold it beats 9.2% of the game's 99 monsters units in melee. Per 1,000 gold: 20.5 damage per second against Chaos Warriors; it lasts 36.7 s against one unit of them.

Beats, at a similar price: Flamespyre Phoenix (1.08× faster), Thundertusk (1.06× faster), Ancient Stegadon (Engine of the Gods) (1.05× faster)

Loses to, at a similar price: Treeman (13.05× slower), Curs'd Ettin (7.97× slower), Keeper of Secrets (7.62× slower)

Equal gold, every model fighting at its weapon's attack interval, combat calculator formulas; no charge, mass, splash, leadership or abilities. “Similar price”: within 30% of its 1,900 multiplayer gold. Lizardmen units ranked.

Match-ups people search for: Ancient Stegadon vs Dread Saurian · Ancient Stegadon vs Stegadon

Who can field it

  • Lizardmen · Hexoatl

Custom Battle lists factions under each race; every faction of a race fields that race's units (units_custom_battle_permissions rows of any of its factions). The name after the race is the faction the army builder uses.

Where these numbers come from

Read from the game's database tables for patch 9.0.4 (main_units, land_units, battle_entities, melee_weapons, projectiles…) as published in the WH3-Dump export (commit 099796e8). Formulas that turn table values into card values are checked against known units before they are shown — how we verify.