Grand Cannons
War machine· Siege Artillery· Tier 2· 4 models (crew of 44) at Ultra size
Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.
Grand Cannons are Grand Cathay war machine: 2,740 HP across 4 models, armour 20, melee attack 10, melee defence 6, weapon strength 24, range 450 m, missile damage 800 per 10 s for the whole unit. It costs 900 in the campaign and in multiplayer. Unit key wh3_main_cth_art_grand_cannon_0. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
Health
685 per model
2,740
Armour
20
Leadership
50
Speed
30
Melee attack
10
Melee defence
6
Weapon strength
21 base + 3 armour-piercing
24
Charge bonus
5
Ranged
Range
450 m
Ammunition
22
Missile damage
88 base + 352 AP
440
Reload time
22 s
Damage per 10 s
200
Attributes
- Yin
This unit counts as a Yin unit for the purpose of Battle Harmony proximity.
Abilities
- Battle Harmony: YinAugment · +4% Speed, +4 Leadership…passiveBattle Harmony: YinAugment+4% Speed+4 Leadership+12 Reload SkillEffect intensity increases by highest nearby Harmony multiplier on a unit.Activates when within 60 metres of a Yang unit.PassiveThere must be balance in all things: dark and light, moon and sun, female and male.
Upgrades
Bought with Unstable Experiments
Celestial Emperor Insignia
Celestial Emperor Insignia · 1 Unstable Experiments
- Missile strength: -10%
- Spell resistance: 20%
- Missile resistance: 20%
Desert Tigress Insignia
Desert Tigress Insignia · 1 Unstable Experiments
- Ammunition: -10%
- Range: +10%
- Reload time reduction: +10%
Iron Dragon Insignia
Iron Dragon Insignia · 1 Unstable Experiments
- "Shrapnel" ammunition switch
- Reload time reduction: -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 — 352 of 440 missile damage armour-piercinge.g. Steam Tank, Blessed Bastiladon (Solar Engine), Rotting Leviathan · Grand Cathay: Great Longma Riders, Terracotta Sentinel
- Units weak to fire — flaming missilese.g. Malevolent Treeman, Chaos Frost Dragon, Treeman
- Lightly armoured units without shields — 800 missile damage per 10 s (whole unit)e.g. Curs'd Ettin, Exalted Plaguebearers of Nurgle, Zombies · Grand Cathay: Peasant Long Spearmen, Tiger Warriors
- Light infantry-sized units — large, mass 3,600e.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
- Missile fire — armour 20, no shielde.g. Ratling Guns, Stormfiends (Ratling Cannons), Chameleon Stalkers · Grand Cathay: Iron Hail Gunners, Fire Rain Rocket Battery
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
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.
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.