Celestial Lion
Monster· Flying Monster· Tier 3· 1 model at Ultra size
Comes with Shadows of Change(Warhammer III)
Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.
Celestial Lion is Grand Cathay monster: 6,176 HP, armour 80, melee attack 42, melee defence 36, weapon strength 450. It costs 1,300 in the campaign and in multiplayer. It comes with Shadows of Change. Unit key wh3_dlc24_cth_mon_celestial_lion. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
Health
6,176
Armour
80
Leadership
65
Speed
85
Melee attack
42
Melee defence
36
Weapon strength
180 base + 270 armour-piercing
450
Charge bonus
65
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.
- Can Fly
This unit can fly.
- Yang
This unit counts as a Yang unit for the purpose of Battle Harmony proximity
Abilities
- Wounded PrideAugment · +5 Melee Attack, +10% Armour-Piercing Weapon Damage…passiveWounded PrideAugment+5 Melee Attack+10% Armour-Piercing Weapon Damage+10% Base Weapon DamagePassiveDown but not out… and never more dangerous. You'd be right to fear the wounded lion…
- Fearsome RoarHex (Area) · -8 LeadershipactiveFearsome RoarHex (Area)-8 LeadershipCooldown 90 s · Duration 25 s · Range 35 mThis one's bark is at least as bad as their bite…
- Battle Harmony: YangAugment · +4 Melee Attack, +4 Melee Defence…passiveBattle Harmony: YangAugment+4 Melee Attack+4 Melee Defence+4 LeadershipEffect intensity increases by highest nearby Harmony multiplier on a unit.Activates when within 60 metres of a Yin unit.PassiveThere must be balance in all things: dark and light, moon and sun, female and male.
- 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.
Upgrades
Bought with Unstable Experiments
Celestial Emperor Insignia
Celestial Emperor Insignia · 1 Unstable Experiments · only Claws of the White Tiger
- Melee attack: -4
- Melee defence: +6
- Physical resistance: 10%
Desert Tigress Insignia
Desert Tigress Insignia · 1 Unstable Experiments · only Claws of the White Tiger
- Melee defence: -4
- Bonus vs Large: +8
- Charge bonus: +20%
Iron Dragon Insignia
Iron Dragon Insignia · 1 Unstable Experiments · only Claws of the White Tiger
- Passive ability: "Attuned to Magic"
- Passive ability: ""
Campaign only, from the game's tables (unit_upgrade_to_unit_groups, unit_purchasable_effects), patch 9.0.4. Costs are before skills and technologies that make upgrades cheaper.
Counters
Good against
- Heavily armoured units — 270 of 450 weapon strength armour-piercinge.g. Steam Tank, Blessed Bastiladon (Solar Engine), Rotting Leviathan · Grand Cathay: Great Longma Riders, Terracotta Sentinel
- Light infantry-sized units — large, mass 2,000e.g. Exalted Plaguebearers of Nurgle, Zombies, Zombie Pirate Deckhand Mob · Grand Cathay: Peasant Long Spearmen, Celestial Dragon Guard
Vulnerable to
- Bonus vs large — large (cavalry-sized or bigger)e.g. Bone Giant, Feral Troglodon, Warp Lightning Cannons · Grand Cathay: Iron Claw Tiger Warriors, Celestial Dragon Guard
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 (6.33× faster), Exalted Flamer of Tzeentch (3.51× faster), Bastiladon (Solar Engine) (2.47× faster)
Loses to, at a similar price: Treeman (4.59× slower), Curs'd Ettin (4.22× slower), Chaos Giant (3.27× 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 1,300 multiplayer gold. Grand Cathay units ranked.
Match-ups people search for: Celestial Lion vs Great Moon Bird
Who can field it
- Grand Cathay · The Northern Provinces
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.
The game also has 1 summoned or scripted copy of this unit that no building or mercenary pool recruits (wh3_cp1_cth_mon_celestial_lion_summoned).
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.