Blessed Ancient Salamander
Monster· Missile Monster· Tier 3· 1 model at Ultra size
Comes with The Prophet & The Warlock(Warhammer II)
Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.
Blessed Ancient Salamander is Lizardmen monster: 7,092 HP, armour 95, melee attack 32, melee defence 29, weapon strength 365, range 160 m, missile damage 378 per 10 s for the whole unit. It costs 1,050 in multiplayer. It comes with The Prophet & The Warlock. Unit key wh2_dlc12_lzd_mon_ancient_salamander_0_blessed. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
Health
7,092
Armour
95
Leadership
65
Speed
75
Melee attack
32
Melee defence
29
Weapon strength
115 base + 250 armour-piercing
365
Charge bonus
30
Ranged
Range
160 m
Ammunition
25
Missile damage
70 base + 265 AP, explosion 85 + 34 AP
454
Reload time
12 s
Damage per 10 s
378
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.
- Hide (forest)
This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.
- 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…passivePrimal InstinctsAugment+15% Charge Bonus+5 Melee Attack+5% Physical ResistancePassiveWhen under pressure, the primal instincts of these natural predators take over, improving their potential in combat.
- Aura of ImmolationHex (Area) · +20% Weakness to Fire DamagepassiveAura of ImmolationHex (Area)+20% Weakness to Fire DamagePassive · Range 55 mWar is the crucible that melts all things.
- WoundsHex · -10% Speed, -20% Armour-Piercing Weapon Damage…passiveWoundsHex-10% Speed-20% Armour-Piercing Weapon Damage-20% Base Weapon DamagePassiveEven the greatest foes can be laid low with terrible injuries, and the greater the damage done, the less able they will be to effectively continue the fray.
Counters
Good against
- Heavily armoured units — 250 of 365 weapon strength armour-piercinge.g. Steam Tank, Rotting Leviathan, Rogue Idol · Lizardmen: Blessed Bastiladon (Solar Engine), Blessed Sacred Kroxigor
- Units weak to fire — flaming melee attackse.g. Malevolent Treeman, Chaos Frost Dragon, Treeman
- Lightly armoured units without shields — 378 missile damage per 10 s (whole unit)e.g. Curs'd Ettin, Exalted Plaguebearers of Nurgle, Zombies · Lizardmen: Red Crested Skinks, Blessed Skink Skirmishers
- Light infantry-sized units — large, mass 2,000e.g. Exalted Plaguebearers of Nurgle, Zombies, Zombie Pirate Deckhand Mob · Lizardmen: Blessed Saurus Spears (Shields), Blessed Saurus Warriors (Shields)
Vulnerable to
- Bonus vs large — large (cavalry-sized or bigger)e.g. Bone Giant, Warp Lightning Cannons, Bolt Throwers · Lizardmen: Feral Troglodon, Blessed Stegadon
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
Beats, at a similar price: Cauldron of a Thousand Poxes (6.59× faster), Exalted Flamer of Tzeentch (3.59× faster), Bastiladon (Solar Engine) (2.47× faster)
Loses to, at a similar price: Beast of Nurgle (2.09× slower), Feral Stegadon (2.00× slower), Great Taurus (1.85× 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 1,050 multiplayer gold.
Who can field it
- Lizardmen · Hexoatl · extended roster
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.
Extended roster: every race above has this unit only through campaign_exclusive rows of units_custom_battle_permissions — CA's note: such units are “filtered out of matchmaking and are generally disabled when unit caps setting is enabled” (“Unable to recruit with unit caps enabled”). So: Custom Battle with Unit caps off, at the multiplayer cost, but not in ranked battles. Race rankings and best-unit lists leave such a unit out for those races.
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.