Lava Arachnarok Spider
Monster· Monster· Tier 5· 1 model (crew of 8) at Ultra size
Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.
Lava Arachnarok Spider is Greenskins monster: 10,029 HP, armour 120, melee attack 70, melee defence 38, weapon strength 500. It costs 1,900 in the campaign and in multiplayer. Unit key wh_dlc15_grn_mon_arachnarok_spider_waaagh_0. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
Health
10,029
Armour
120
Leadership
75
Speed
57
Melee attack
70
Melee defence
38
Weapon strength
140 base + 360 armour-piercing, +20 vs large
500
Charge bonus
40
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.
- Strider
Speed and combat penalties caused by terrain are ignored by this unit.
Abilities
- ArachneruptionBombardment · Bombards the area around the caster, Ignores armour…activeArachneruptionBombardmentBombards the area around the casterIgnores armourMost effective when surroundedCooldown 90 s · Duration 2 s · 3 uses"Y'see that glowin' spot there?" "Ye." "Poke it." PHTWOOSH!!!
- Thermal ThoraxDirect Damage (Area) · Causes damage to combatants, Strong vs multiple combatants…passiveThermal ThoraxDirect Damage (Area)Causes damage to combatantsStrong vs multiple combatantsWeak vs a single combatantPassive · Range 35 mThe radiant heat of the Lava Arachnarok scorches flesh and softens steel. Coincidentally, it also provides the perfect sear on a hunk of Squig meat.
- 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 Scrap
Strapped Plates
Armour · 50 Scrap
- Missile resistance: 20%
Spiky Leg Bitz
Weapon · 60 Scrap
- Charge bonus: +20
- Weapon strength: +15%
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
- Large units — bonus vs large 20e.g. Dread Saurian, Khemric Titan, Feral Dread Saurian · Greenskins: Rogue Idol, Giant
- Heavily armoured units — 360 of 500 weapon strength armour-piercinge.g. Steam Tank, Blessed Bastiladon (Solar Engine), Rotting Leviathan · Greenskins: Rogue Idol, Arachnarok Spider
- Units weak to fire — flaming melee attackse.g. Malevolent Treeman, Chaos Frost Dragon, Treeman
- Light infantry-sized units — large, mass 4,100e.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, Arachnarok Spider
- Armour-piercing — armour 120e.g. Warp-Doom Magma-Cannon, Luminark of Hysh, Little Grom · Greenskins: Giant, Rogue Idol
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: Ancient Stegadon (Engine of the Gods) (4.96× faster), Ancient Stegadon (4.71× faster), Flamespyre Phoenix (4.30× faster)
Loses to, at a similar price: Curs'd Ettin (1.52× slower), Chaos Giant (1.48× slower), Terracotta Sentinel (1.20× 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 1,900 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.