How much HP does Hellcannon have?

Hellcannon has 3,957 HP at Ultra unit size (patch 9.0.4).

What is the unit key for Hellcannon?

The unit key is wh_main_chs_art_hellcannon; other versions: wh3_dlc25_nur_chieftain_art_hellcannon.

Hellcannon

Q: How much does Hellcannon cost?

Hellcannon costs 1,200 in the campaign (Warriors of Chaos factions pay 1,950) and 1,200 in multiplayer.

War machine· Siege Artillery· Tier 3· 1 model (crew of 12) at Ultra size

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

Hellcannon is Warriors of Chaos, Chaos Dwarfs and Nurgle war machine: 3,957 HP, armour 30, melee attack 18, melee defence 14, weapon strength 28, range 420 m, missile damage 378 per 10 s for the whole unit. It costs 1,200 in the campaign (Warriors of Chaos factions pay 1,950) and 1,200 in multiplayer. Unit key wh_main_chs_art_hellcannon. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.

Health

3,957

bottom 6% of class

Armour

bottom 33% of class

Leadership

top 36% of class

Speed

bottom 1% of class

Melee attack

top 47% of class

Melee defence

top 47% of class

Weapon strength

21 base + 7 armour-piercing

bottom 42% of class

Charge bonus

bottom 24% of class

Ranged

Range

420 m

top 43% of class

Ammunition

top 31% of class

Missile damage

72 base + 262 AP, explosion 30 + 90 AP

454

top 10% of class

Reload time

12 s

top 42% of class

Damage per 10 s

378

top 27% of class

Campaign cost: 1,200
Multiplayer cost: 1,200
Upkeep: 300
Mass: 2,120

The game gives these factions their own campaign price (main_unit_faction_overrides):

Warriors of Chaos factions1,950

Unit key (for console commands)

wh_main_chs_art_hellcannon

Compare with other units

Rank

Leadership: 70
Melee attack: 18
Melee defence: 14
Experience: —

Rank 0 (recruited); the stat card stays at rank 0. Damage per 10 s is at rank 0. Per rank: base^growth_rate × growth_scalar (unit_experience_bonuses, unit_experience_thresholds), patch 9.0.4.

Recruited from

Grand ManufactoryWar Machines, level 2

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.

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 war machine units players can field.

Attributes

Cannot Run
This unit cannot run and will only move at walking pace.
Unbreakable
This unit does not suffer any form of leadership loss and will never rout.

Abilities

Blooood!Augment · +18% Acceleration, +25% Speedactive
Boom!Augment · +20% Armour-Piercing Explosive Damage, +25% Base Explosive Damageactive

Counters

Good against

Heavily armoured units — 262 of 334 missile damage armour-piercinge.g. Steam Tank, Blessed Bastiladon (Solar Engine), Rotting Leviathan · Warriors of Chaos: Chaos Knights of Khorne, Chosen of Khorne
Units with physical resistance — magical missilese.g. Hexwraiths, Cairn Wraiths, Syreens
Lightly armoured units without shields — 378 missile damage per 10 s (whole unit)e.g. Curs'd Ettin, Exalted Plaguebearers of Nurgle, Zombies · Warriors of Chaos: Marauders of Nurgle (Great Weapons), Marauders of Khorne (Dual Weapons)
Light infantry-sized units — large, mass 2,120e.g. Exalted Plaguebearers of Nurgle, Zombies, Zombie Pirate Deckhand Mob · Warriors of Chaos: Chosen of Nurgle, Chosen of Slaanesh

Vulnerable to

Bonus vs large — large (cavalry-sized or bigger)e.g. Bone Giant, Feral Troglodon, Warp Lightning Cannons · Warriors of Chaos: Dragon Ogre Shaggoth, Dragon Ogres
Missile fire — armour 30, no shielde.g. Ratling Guns, Stormfiends (Ratling Cannons), Chameleon Stalkers · Warriors of Chaos: Marauder Horsemasters, Marauder Horsemen of Khorne (Throwing Axes)

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

Match-ups people search for: Hellcannon vs Dreadquake Mortar · Hellcannon vs Magma Cannon

Every version of Hellcannon

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
Warriors of Chaos, Chaos DwarfsSiege Artillery	3,957	1	30	70	20	18	14	28	5	1,200	300	`wh_main_chs_art_hellcannon`
NurgleSiege Artillery	3,957	1	30	70	20	18	14	28	5	—	300	`wh3_dlc25_nur_chieftain_art_hellcannon`

Who can field it

Chaos Dwarfs · The Legion of Azgorh
Warriors of Chaos · Warhost of the Apocalypse
Nurgle · Poxmakers of Nurgle · 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: Nurgle 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.

The game also has 1 summoned or scripted copy of this unit that no building or mercenary pool recruits (wh3_main_chs_art_hellcannon_prologue).

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.