Battlefield role: Daemonic artillery.
Unit type: Artillery and war machines.
Content pack: Warriors of Chaos core roster — Chaos Warriors Race Pack. Immortal Empires ownership
Availability
- Part of the original Warriors of Chaos roster introduced with the Chaos Warriors Race Pack. In Immortal Empires, recruit it while playing a Warriors of Chaos campaign you own and have the recruitment buildings for.
- The Chaos Dwarfs also field a Hellcannon in their own roster, with its own recruitment route.
Official references
Fire before the lines meet
Artillery does its best work before the melee starts. Target tightly packed infantry or a static missile line, then switch targets once your Chaos Warriors close in so you are not firing into your own troops.
Protect it. Fast cavalry, flyers and skirmishers will go after artillery placed at the back. Keep a reserve unit nearby rather than sending every regiment forward.
Recruiting a Hellcannon
The Hellcannon is part of the Warriors of Chaos core roster that came with the Chaos Warriors Race Pack. Check your faction's recruitment buildings before planning around it.
The Chaos Dwarfs have their own Hellcannon entry. Their recruitment and campaign limits follow the Chaos Dwarf systems, not the Warriors of Chaos ones.
Supporting a Chaos warband
Warriors of Chaos armies are built around armoured infantry and heavy cavalry. A Hellcannon softens the enemy so that line wins its fight faster.
Archaon, Kholek, Sigvald and Be'lakor all lead Warriors of Chaos armies. Whichever you use, a single artillery piece behind the line gives the warband an answer to enemies that sit back and shoot.
Race and roster
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