How much HP does Chimera have?

Chimera has 6,390 HP at Ultra unit size (patch 9.0.4).

How much does Chimera cost?

Chimera costs 1,500 in the campaign and in multiplayer.

What is the unit key for Chimera?

The unit key is wh3_dlc27_nor_mon_chimera; other versions: wh3_dlc27_bst_mon_chimera.

What are Chimera's stats?

6,390 HP, armour 80, melee attack 52, melee defence 38, weapon strength 520. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.

Chimera

Monster· Flying Monster· Tier 4· 1 model at Ultra size

Comes with Tides of Torment – Norsca(Warhammer III)

Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.

Chimera is Norsca, Warriors of Chaos and Beastmen monster: 6,390 HP, armour 80, melee attack 52, melee defence 38, weapon strength 520. It costs 1,500 in the campaign and in multiplayer. It comes with Tides of Torment – Norsca. Unit key wh3_dlc27_nor_mon_chimera. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.

Health

6,390

bottom 15% of class

Armour

top 42% of class

Leadership

bottom 10% of class

Speed

top 33% of class

Melee attack

top 45% of class

Melee defence

top 49% of class

Weapon strength

240 base + 280 armour-piercing

520

top 39% of class

Charge bonus

bottom 45% of class

Campaign cost: 1,500
Multiplayer cost: 1,500
Upkeep: 375
Mass: 2,000

Unit key (for console commands)

wh3_dlc27_nor_mon_chimera

Compare with other units

Rank

Leadership: 60
Melee attack: 52
Melee defence: 38
Experience: —

Rank 0 (recruited); the stat card stays at rank 0. Per rank: base^growth_rate × growth_scalar (unit_experience_bonuses, unit_experience_thresholds), patch 9.0.4. Worth in gold: the price at which the ranked unit breaks even against rank-0 copies of itself (combat calculator formulas).

Recruited from

The first building level that unlocks it (table building_units_allowed), patch 9.0.4. Unlock (computed): every level of that chain up to it (building_levels create_cost, create_time, one after another) and the main building level it needs, before cost reductions.

Missile resistance +15%

Base values at Ultra unit size, rank 0, no skills or items — patch 9.0.4. Hover a number for the game table it comes from. Bars are computed on this site: where the unit sits among monster units players can field.

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.
Immune to Flanking
This unit takes no penalties when flanked.
Can Fly
This unit can fly.

Abilities

Flaming BreathMagic Missile · Causes fire damage, Good against armour…active
WoundsHex · -10% Speed, -20% Armour-Piercing Weapon Damage…passive

Counters

Good against

Heavily armoured units — 280 of 520 weapon strength armour-piercinge.g. Steam Tank, Blessed Bastiladon (Solar Engine), Rotting Leviathan · Norsca: Fimir Warriors
Units with physical resistance — magical melee attackse.g. Hexwraiths, Cairn Wraiths, Syreens · Norsca: Skin Wolves
Units weak to fire — flaming melee attackse.g. Malevolent Treeman, Treeman, Yhetees · Norsca: Chaos Frost Dragon, Norscan Ice Trolls
Light infantry-sized units — large, mass 2,000e.g. Exalted Plaguebearers of Nurgle, Zombies, Zombie Pirate Deckhand Mob · Norsca: Marauder Bearmen, Marauder Berserkers

Vulnerable to

Bonus vs large — large (cavalry-sized or bigger)e.g. Bone Giant, Feral Troglodon, Warp Lightning Cannons · Norsca: Skin Wolves, Fimir Warriors (Great Weapons)

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 41.3% of the game's 99 monsters units in melee. Per 1,000 gold: 27.1 damage per second against Chaos Warriors; it lasts 25.3 s against one unit of them.

Beats, at a similar price: Cauldron of a Thousand Poxes (8.73× faster), Exalted Flamer of Tzeentch (4.91× faster), Bastiladon (Solar Engine) (2.72× faster)

Loses to, at a similar price: Curs'd Ettin (3.65× slower), Chaos Giant (2.99× slower), Feral Carnosaur (2.73× 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 1,500 multiplayer gold. Norsca units ranked.

Match-ups people search for: Chimera vs Chaos Frost Dragon

Every version of Chimera

2 units share this name across races (mounts, race versions, renown or faction variants). Differences from the first row are highlighted.

Version	HP	Models	Armour	Lead.	Speed	MA	MD	WS	Charge	Cost	Upkeep	Unit key
Norsca, Warriors of ChaosFlying Monster	6,390	1	80	60	85	52	38	520	45	1,500	375	`wh3_dlc27_nor_mon_chimera`
BeastmenFlying Monster	6,390	1	80	60	85	52	38	520	45	—	—	`wh3_dlc27_bst_mon_chimera`

Who can field it

Norsca · World Walkers
Warriors of Chaos · Warhost of the Apocalypse
Beastmen · Warherd of the One-Eye

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 campaign also recruits 1 copy of this unit that no faction fields in custom battles (wh3_dlc27_nor_mon_chimera_monst_arcanum_reward: from a mercenary pool).

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.