The Sunmaker (Helstorm Rocket Battery)
War machine· Rocket Battery· Tier 4· 4 models (crew of 44) at Ultra sizeRegiment of Renown
Comes with The Grim & The Grave(Warhammer I)
Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.
The Sunmaker (Helstorm Rocket Battery) are Empire war machine: 4,356 HP across 4 models, armour 20, melee attack 14, melee defence 9, weapon strength 24, range 480 m, missile damage 2,491 per 10 s for the whole unit. It costs 1,800 in the campaign and in multiplayer. They come with The Grim & The Grave. Unit key wh_dlc04_emp_art_sunmaker_0. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
Health
1,089 per model
4,356
Armour
20
Leadership
60
Speed
20
Melee attack
14
Melee defence
9
Weapon strength
21 base + 3 armour-piercing
24
Charge bonus
5
Ranged
Range
480 m
Ammunition
8
Missile damage
30 base + 70 AP, explosion 22 + 51 AP, 9 projectiles per shot
173
Reload time
25 s
Damage per 10 s
623
Attributes
- Cannot Run
This unit cannot run and will only move at walking pace.
Counters
Good against
- Heavily armoured units — 70 of 100 missile damage armour-piercinge.g. Blessed Bastiladon (Solar Engine), Rotting Leviathan, Rogue Idol · The Empire: Steam Tank, Demigryph Knights
- Units weak to fire — flaming missilese.g. Malevolent Treeman, Chaos Frost Dragon, Treeman
- Lightly armoured units without shields — 2,491 missile damage per 10 s (whole unit)e.g. Curs'd Ettin, Exalted Plaguebearers of Nurgle, Zombies · The Empire: Wolf-kin, Flagellants
- Light infantry-sized units — large, mass 2,100e.g. Exalted Plaguebearers of Nurgle, Zombies, Zombie Pirate Deckhand Mob · The Empire: Teutogen Guard, Greatswords
Vulnerable to
- Bonus vs large — large (cavalry-sized or bigger)e.g. Bone Giant, Feral Troglodon, Warp Lightning Cannons · The Empire: Demigryph Knights (Halberds), Halberdiers
- Missile fire — armour 20, no shielde.g. Ratling Guns, Stormfiends (Ratling Cannons), Chameleon Stalkers · The Empire: Amethyst Outriders, The Bordermen (Outriders – Grenade Launchers)
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
- The Empire · Reikland
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.