Warp Lightning Cannons
War machine· Siege Artillery· Tier 3· 4 models (crew of 56) at Ultra size
Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.
Warp Lightning Cannons are Skaven war machine: 4,848 HP across 4 models, armour 30, melee attack 16, melee defence 16, weapon strength 18, range 430 m, missile damage 695 per 10 s for the whole unit. It costs 950 in the campaign and in multiplayer. Unit key wh2_main_skv_art_warp_lightning_cannon. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
Health
1,212 per model
4,848
Armour
30
Leadership
50
Speed
20
Melee attack
16
Melee defence
16
Weapon strength
14 base + 4 armour-piercing
18
Charge bonus
2
Ranged
Range
430 m
Ammunition
22
Missile damage
80 base + 260 AP, explosion 5 + 20 AP
365
Reload time
21 s
Damage per 10 s
174
Attributes
- Cannot Run
This unit cannot run and will only move at walking pace.
Counters
Good against
- Large units — bonus vs large 70e.g. Rogue Idol, Dread Saurian, Khemric Titan · Skaven: Hell Pit Abomination, Stormfiends (Shock Gauntlets)
- Heavily armoured units — 260 of 340 missile damage armour-piercinge.g. Steam Tank, Blessed Bastiladon (Solar Engine), Rotting Leviathan · Skaven: Doomwheel, Death Globe Bombardiers
- Units with physical resistance — magical missilese.g. Hexwraiths, Cairn Wraiths, Syreens · Skaven: Death Runners, Eshin Triads
- Lightly armoured units without shields — 695 missile damage per 10 s (whole unit)e.g. Curs'd Ettin, Exalted Plaguebearers of Nurgle, Zombies · Skaven: Plague Monk Censer Bearers, Clanrat Spears
- Light infantry-sized units — large, mass 2,100e.g. Exalted Plaguebearers of Nurgle, Zombies, Zombie Pirate Deckhand Mob · Skaven: Stormvermin (Halberds), Stormvermin (Swords & Shields)
Vulnerable to
- Bonus vs large — large (cavalry-sized or bigger)e.g. Bone Giant, Feral Troglodon, Blessed Stegadon · Skaven: Hell Pit Abomination, Stormvermin (Halberds)
- Missile fire — armour 30, no shielde.g. Chameleon Stalkers, Blessed Chameleon Stalkers, Thunderers (Grudge-Rakers) · Skaven: Ratling Guns, Stormfiends (Ratling Cannons)
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
- Skaven · Clan Mors
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.