"Their cannons were phenomenally powerful. Their shells shook the land so hard, it moved like it was water. Many horses fell and broke their legs. As to the Kislevites and my fellow mercenaries, it was a slaughter. I managed to survive only because the unit I was with routed early. I later learned that those they didn’t kill were taken away in chains, Sigmar alone knows where. I left Kislev soon after, with the taste of ashes in my mouth."
A Hellcannon as depicted in Total War: Warhammer III.[3a]
A Hellcannon is a massive Daemon Engine, a smoking construct of metal combined with the captured sentience of a Chaos Daemon that serves as a potent magical artillery piece in the armies of the Chaos Dwarfs and the Warriors of Chaos.
Role
"The Hellcannon has a deadly sentience, firing bolts of eldritch fury over great distances."
- —Description of the Hellcannon in Total War: Warhammer III.[3a]
A mighty Hellcannon of the Chaos Dwarfs
Part-Daemon, part-war machine, a Hellcannon is a massive construct of metal that growls and shakes with Daemonic sentience. In battle, these Daemonic artillery pieces heave crackling blasts of raw soul energy that soar through the air into their targets, liquifying anything they touch and rendering the survivors insane with fear. Hellcannons are usually guided by a team of corrupt and sadistic Chaos Dwarfs. These malign warsmiths escort and restrain the Hellcannons in battle, for the Daemons bound within the construct hunger for a banquet of flesh.[1a][3a]
Such is the Hellcannon's bloodlust that it must be chained to the ground to stop it rampaging towards enemy lines. Even these precautions often prove inadequate, as there is little that can stay a Hellcannon's lust for destruction.[1a]
The Chaos Dwarfs load their charge by brutally shoveling the bodies of their enemies into the Hellcannon's dire-furnace. Flesh runs like wax as the Daemon Engine's hearth feasts on body and bone. Soon, only the souls of its victims are left, harnessed in the Hellcannon's gullet as crackling bolts of energy that are fired towards the enemy in powerful spasms of malice.[1a]
Infamous Hellcannons
- The Soul of Damnation - A Hellcannon with an especially rapid rate of fire due to malignant sorcery.[3]
- The Ice-Forged Legion - A regiment of four hellcannons that operate in the frozen North.[3]
Miniatures
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Sources
- 1: Warhammer Armies: Warriors of Chaos (8th Edition)
- 1a: pg. 42
- 2: Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 1st Edition: Old World Beastiary (RPG)
- 2a: pg. 17
- 3: Total War: Warhammer III (PC Game)
- 3a: Hellcannon Unit Description
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