Iron Daemon – Dreadquake Mortar

is a war machine unit introduced in Total War: Warhammer III with Forge of the Chaos Dwarfs.
== Recruitment ==
* Unlocked with: Manufactory Complex
== Description ==
The Iron Daemon is one of the latest Daemon Engines created in the service of the Chaos Dwarfs. It is a mighty, smoke-belching powerhouse that fires blasts of shrapnel against enemy forces or crushes fortifications while towing up to two heavily-armed steam carriages. The boilers that provide these machines with motive power to haul heavy armaments and munitions to the battlefield are cunningly designed so that they can also be used to work pressure-fed weapons such as cannonades and wall-breakers. This means that every Iron Daemon is also a powerful war machine in its own right – a fully mobile artillery piece or murderous killing engine, able to smash through fortifications and hack down ranks of living soldiers with equal ease.
== Attributes ==
== Abilities ==
=== Active Abilities ===
* More Power!
=== Passive Abilities ===
* Hellbound
* Wounds
== Strategy ==
This variant of the Dreadquake Mortar is only available in campaign and has half of the dreadquake ammunition of the other two.
Dreadquake Mortars coupled to warmachines are insanely expensive in two separate ways: There's not only the gold cost to consider, but the fact they require two army cap purchases in the Hell Forge. Bear in mind that though this is the game accounting for the fact they're effectively two units, in battle they are very much one unit, and if it gets destroyed it gets destroyed. Unless you concentrate heavily on raw material production, rush a settlement to level 5, then switch much of your industry over to armament production, you will not be able to get these lavish units out until the late game.
Coupling a Dreadquake to a war machine greatly increases its mobility and ability to defend itself. The fact it can fire while moving is by itself astonishingly powerful, and with micro means it can dodge counter battery fire. Greenskins, Skaven, Cathay and Dwarfs - Chaos Dwarfs' most likely opponents in campaign - all have access to highly effective artillery of their own, so this is by no means a theoretical advantage. It also increases its effectiveness in siege situations, easily able to move up and continue bombarding positions.
The Iron Daemon is the more hybrid choice. The fact ammunition is split between the Daemon and the Dreadquake limits the Dreadquake's potential and encourages you to play more aggressively with it so the front carriage has a chance to fire as well. However this problem is solved with an Infernal Castellan levelled enough to have the Restock ability.
Category:Forge of The Chaos Dwarfs units