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11 The Hellfire is the Protectorate long range artillery vehicle, a Tier 2.5 unit that fires six Ifrit Scatter Missiles in a volley every 5 seconds and can siege in place to extend its reach by 87.5 percent. It is the slowest combat vehicle the faction builds. Figures below describe build ZS.c36778 of 11 September 2026 and move with the weekly patch cadence.
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33 Stat Block
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55 StatValueCost150 hexite and 100 fluxHealth300ShieldsNoneArmorNot published in the entity dataArmor typeMediumStatus resistNone listedMove speed400Vision16Supply6Build time65 secondsTier2.5DomainGround unitInfuse / Reanimate / Replicate13.75 eachBuilt byAssembly Plant
66 The entity data publishes no flat armour number for the Hellfire and no status resist value, so both are recorded above as absent rather than as zero.
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88 Weapons
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1010 WeaponDamageDPSRangeCooldownTargetsBonusesIfrit Scatter Missile16 per missile, 6 missiles per volley1914, or 26.25 in siege mode5 secondsGroundNone. Splash at full damage across 2 range
1111 Abilities
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1313 AbilityEffectCooldownCostSiege modeSieges the Hellfire for +87.5 percent attack range, taking it from 14 to 26.25. The unit cannot move while sieged2.5 secondsNo listed cost
1414 Upgrades
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1616 UpgradeTierCostEffectResearched atResonant Missiles1150 flux, 60 second research+50 percent missile speed and +25 percent missile damageMechanical Research Lab
1717 Role
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1919 A Hellfire volley is 96 damage spread across six missiles, each splashing at full damage over 2 range. Against a clustered army that is far more than the 19 damage per second figure suggests, and against a single target it is much less, so the unit is priced around hitting groups.
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2121 Siege mode is what makes it a siege weapon rather than a slow tank. Extending from 14 to 26.25 puts the Hellfire outside the reach of nearly every ground weapon in the game, including the 17 range a Sentinel reaches with Longshot Calibration. The cost is total immobility while sieged and a 2.5 second cooldown on the transition, so a sieged Hellfire that is flanked is simply lost.
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2323 Resonant Missiles is the only upgrade and it improves both halves of the weapon: 25 percent more damage per missile and 50 percent more missile speed, which reduces the number of volleys that miss a moving target.
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2525 At 400 move speed the Hellfire arrives last at every fight. It wants a Bastion line or a Strider in front of it and something that can shoot air nearby, because the missiles cannot target flyers at all.
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2727 Faction Context
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2929 The Hellfire is built at the Assembly Plant alongside the Predator and the Titan, and its single upgrade sits in the Mechanical Research Lab.
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3131 It is the faction's answer to static defence and massed infantry, which is the same role the Protectorate fills with position and attrition generally. Since 28 August 2026 a Hauler can no longer pick up a sieged unit, so a Hellfire that has committed to siege mode has to unsiege before it can be extracted.
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3333 Tier and Armour Interactions
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3535 Medium armour on 300 health with no published flat armour value. Against anything that reaches it the Hellfire is not durable, and every anti Medium bonus on the roster multiplies into it.
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3737 The missiles carry no armour type bonus of their own. Their efficiency comes from the six missile volley and the 2 range splash rather than from a multiplier, which means the Hellfire performs the same against Light, Medium and Heavy targets and is chosen for how tightly they are packed, not for what they are made of.
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3939 Counters
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4141 Strong against:
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4343 UnitWhyThrallcheap infantry in numbers, where six splashing missiles hit many at onceArkanidspawned swarms clump, which is the worst possible shape against scatter missilesCommandomassed light infantry inside a 2 range splashStatic defencessiege mode reaches 26.25, outside the range of most turrets
4444 Weak to:
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4646 UnitWhySkrell+100 percent against Medium armourRoller+100 percent against Medium with splash across 3 rangePredator800 move speed against a 400 speed artillery piece, with +50 percent against MediumDreadnoughta flyer the Hellfire cannot target at allAny flyerthe Ifrit Scatter Missile targets ground only
4747 Balance History
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4949 No dated first party balance change to the Hellfire appears in the Early Access patch notes through 1 September 2026, and its entity data is unchanged across the 15 days to 11 September 2026. The faction wide armour rework of 11 August 2026 did not touch it, because its weapon carries no armour type bonus.
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5151 Notes
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5353 For the rest of the roster and how to read a stat block, see Units. For hexite, flux, supply and the power pool behind unit conversions, see Resources and Economy. For the commanders that lead a Protectorate army, see Heroes and Commanders.
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5555 The stats above describe build ZS.c36778 of 11 September 2026. Versus balance moves on a weekly cadence during Early Access, so a figure that is right today may be adjusted in the next pass.