Sundered Armour

Sundered Armour
Classification
Type	Contact effect
Overview
Effects	Armour: -30
Duration	10 seconds
Targets	Enemy unit hit with a melee or ranged attack

Sundered Armour is an attack contact effect which provides a temporary major Armour debuff to an enemy unit when hit. It is applied to a whole unit whenever an entity is hit. Attacks imbued with Sundered Armour are said to be sundering attacks.

As a contact effect, it only triggers when the blow is successful and actually lands on enemies. However, as long as the attack is successful, Sundered Armour will always trigger, cannot be negated by resistances of any sort, does not stack and can be constantly refreshed.

An attack contact effect applies to melee attack and/or missile attack so it is possible for a unit to have Sundered Armour on one or both of its damage channels.

Effect

• Sundered Armour (10s)
  Armour: -30

Units

Below are all units with this contact effect as of update 6.0:

Beastmen
Category	Unit
Monsters & Beasts

Daemons of Chaos
Category	Unit
Heroes
Infantry
Monsters & Beasts

Dwarfs
Category	Unit
Infantry
Extended Roster

Greenskins
Category	Unit
Infantry
Missile Infantry
Artillery & War Machines

High Elves
Category	Unit
Infantry

Khorne
Category	Unit
Heroes
Infantry

Lizardmen
Category	Unit
Extended Roster

Norsca
Category	Unit
Heroes
Monsters & Beasts
Extended Roster

Nurgle
Category	Unit
Heroes
Extended Roster

Ogre Kingdoms
Category	Unit
Artillery & War Machines

Skaven
Category	Unit
Artillery & War Machines

Tomb Kings
Category	Unit
Missile Infantry

Tzeentch
Category	Unit
Monsters & Beasts

Vampire Coast
Category	Unit
Missile Monsters & Beasts

Vampire Counts
Category	Unit
Heroes

Warriors of Chaos
Category	Unit
Heroes
Infantry
Monsters & Beasts

Wood Elves
Category	Unit
Lords
Heroes
Infantry

Abilities that do Sundering damage or grant Sundering attacks

Sundering damage
Ability	Type	Duration	Damage Per Second	Race	Unit	Source
Bolt of Change	Bombardment	10 seconds	Ranged Damage: 672 (100%) Explosive Damage: 132 (100%)	Daemons of Chaos	🗙	When a Lord does damage in battle a random Monogod army ability will be selected
				Oracles of Tzeentch		Technology (Bolt of Change)
				Puppets of Misrule		Technology (Dark Meditation)
				The Deceivers		Technology (Bolt of Change)
Drop Rocks of Sundering	Bombardment	10 seconds	Ranged Damage: 125 (36%) Explosive Damage: 63 (42%)	Lizardmen	Pahuax Sentinels (Terradon Riders)	🗙
Searing Bile-Blood	Vortex	2 seconds	Damage Per Second: 8 (100%)	Beastmen	The Vorbergland Broodmother (Jabberslythe)	🗙
Wolf's Howl	Bombardment	10 seconds	Ranged Damage: 672 (100%) Explosive Damage: 132 (100%)	Kislev	Prince Yuri	Wolfbane

Sundering damage imbuement
Ability	Type	Duration	Self	Allies	Race	Unit	Source
Aether Sword	Augment	27 seconds	✔	🗙	Warriors of Chaos	Any Lord or Hero may have	Aether Sword
Axe of Grom	Augment	29 seconds	✔	🗙	Greenskins	Grom the Paunch	Axe of Grom
Blade Swirl	Augment		✔	🗙	Skaven	Doom-Flayers	Forbidden Workshop
Heart Piercing	Augment	28 seconds	✔	🗙	Vampire Counts	Blood Dragon Vampire Lord	🗙
						The Red Duke
Immense Power	Augment		✔	🗙	Vampire Counts	Rogue Idol	Grom's Cauldron
						Da Big 'Un (Rogue Idol)
Mortal Blow Upgraded	Augment		✔	🗙	Vampire Counts	The Daemon Prince	The Armoured Prince of Chaos
							The Scorched Prince of Chaos
Rune of Thungni	Augment	40 seconds	✔	✔	Chaos Dwarfs	Any Lord of Hero may have	The Runic Tablet of Thungni
					Dwarfs
					Dwarfs		Rune of Thungni
Sliverslash	Augment	26 seconds	✔	🗙	Warriors of Chaos	Prince Sigvald the Magnificent	Sliverslash
The Talabecland Runefang	Augment	41 seconds	✔	🗙	The Empire	Any Lord may have	Elector Counts

Spells that do Sundering damage or grant Sundering attacks

Sundering damage imbuement
Ability	Type	Duration	Self	Allies	Race	Unit	Source
Breath of Hatred	Augment (Area)	31 seconds	✔	✔	Chaos Dwarfs	Any Lord or Hero may have	Malignant Totem
Rune of Breaking	Augment	33 seconds	✔	✔	Dwarfs	Specific units; see here for more details	Runic Magic

Items that grant Sundering attacks

Items
Name	Type	Race	Owner	Random Drop	Other Source
Executioner's Axe	Weapon	Dark Elves	Any Lord or Hero
Klad Brakak	Weapon	Dwarfs	Thorek Ironbrow		Klad Brakak (quest)
Prospector's Pickaxe	Weapon	Dwarfs	Any Lord or Hero		The Forge
Red Blades	Weapon	Dark Elves	Lokhir Fellheart		Red Blades (quest)
Spirit Qilin Spear	Weapon	Grand Cathay	Any Lord or Hero

Mechanics that grant Sundering attacks

Mechanics
Mechanic	Race	Faction	Mechanic specific	Effect
Grom's Cauldron	Greenskins	Broken Axe	Misty Mountain Broth	Enables Sundering attacks (to Grom the Paunch)
Hell-Forge	Chaos Dwarfs	All	Rune of Sundering	Enables Sundering attacks (when applied to Chaos Dwarf melee infantry units)

Skills that grant this Sundering attacks

Skills
Name	Race	Effect	Source
Destroyer	Ogre Kingdoms	Enables sundering attacks	Firebelly

Technologies that grant this Sundering attacks

Technologies
Name	Race	Effect
Better Plunda	Ogre Kingdoms	Enables Sundering attacks for Maneaters units
Sunderin' Blades	Greenskins	Enables sundering attacks for Black Orc units

Strategy

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• This ability is great because it reduces the enemy armour overall, meaning your units with low armour piercing can now do more damage against this enemy.
• It can be useful to have one armour sundering unit reduce an enemy's armour while your other units swarm them to finish them off.