Feral Hydra
Monster· Monster· Tier 4· 1 model at Ultra size
Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.
Feral Hydra is Greenskins monster: 10,400 HP, armour 60, melee attack 52, melee defence 32, weapon strength 440. It costs 1,600 in the campaign and 1,550 in multiplayer. Unit key wh2_dlc15_grn_mon_feral_hydra_waaagh_0. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
Health
10,400
Armour
60
Leadership
65
Speed
46
Melee attack
52
Melee defence
32
Weapon strength
140 base + 300 armour-piercing
440
Charge bonus
45
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.
Abilities
- Fiery BreathMagic Missiles · Causes fire damage, Strong vs a single unit…activeFiery BreathMagic MissilesCauses fire damageStrong vs a single unitWeak vs a single combatantPowerful explosionCooldown 60 s · 3 uses · Wind-up 1 sJust give the order and the Hydra's heads will spew forth their fiery breath, each competing for the brightest flame.
- Another Takes its PlaceRegeneration · Replenishes hit points of combatantspassiveAnother Takes its PlaceRegenerationReplenishes hit points of combatantsPassive · Cooldown 60 s · Duration 1 s · 4 usesThe titanic, deadly Hydras are notoriously difficult to kill; their broken bodies regenerate, rising up again to devour anew.
- Feral Rage IHexpassiveFeral Rage IHexPassive · Duration 40 s · 1 useThe smell and taste of blood intensifies the rage of most wild creatures, reverting them to their feral instincts.
- Feral Rage IIHexpassiveFeral Rage IIHexPassive · Duration 40 s · 1 useThe smell and taste of blood intensifies the rage of most wild creatures, reverting them to their feral instincts.
- 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.
- RegenerationRegeneration · +20% Weakness to Fire Damage, Replenishes hit points of combatantspassiveRegenerationRegeneration+20% Weakness to Fire DamageReplenishes hit points of combatantsPassiveThere are beings and creatures that can mend bone and knit flesh at an incredible rate. A mighty boon, but one stunted by fire.
Upgrades
Bought with Scrap
Strapped Plates
Armour · 50 Scrap
- Missile resistance: 20%
Swamp Shroom Powda
Bag · 50 Scrap
- Battle healing cap: +20%
- Incoming Healing Modifier: +10%
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 — 300 of 440 weapon strength armour-piercinge.g. Steam Tank, Blessed Bastiladon (Solar Engine), Rotting Leviathan · Greenskins: Rogue Idol, Lava Arachnarok Spider
- Light infantry-sized units — large, mass 5,000e.g. Exalted Plaguebearers of Nurgle, Zombies, Zombie Pirate Deckhand Mob · Greenskins: Black Orcs, Savage Orc Big 'Uns
Vulnerable to
- Bonus vs large — large (cavalry-sized or bigger)e.g. Bone Giant, Feral Troglodon, Warp Lightning Cannons · Greenskins: Goblin Bolt Throwa, Lava Arachnarok Spider
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 (6.75× faster), Exalted Flamer of Tzeentch (4.06× faster), Bastiladon (Solar Engine) (3.00× faster)
Loses to, at a similar price: Curs'd Ettin (3.26× slower), Treeman (2.78× slower), Chaos Giant (2.51× 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 1,550 multiplayer gold.
Who can field it
- Greenskins · Grimgor's 'Ardboyz · 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.