The Great Cannon is the mainstay artillery piece of the Empire, a mighty barrel of black iron mounted upon a sturdy wheeled carriage and served by a crew of skilled gunners. Forged in the great foundries of Nuln, the heart of the Empire's gunpowder industry, each cannon is a masterwork of the engineer's craft, capable of hurling a heavy iron ball across the battlefield to smash through armour, shatter ranks, and topple the largest of monsters.
The crews who serve the Great Cannon are drawn from the ranks of the Imperial artillery, men versed in the volatile arts of powder and shot. A well-aimed cannonball can plough a bloody furrow through a densely packed enemy formation, and the roar of its discharge is a sound that steadies the hearts of the soldiers of the Empire of Man even as it strikes terror into their foes.
While the artisans of the Dwarfen Mountain Holds craft cannon of their own with peerless precision, the Empire's Great Cannons are produced in far greater numbers, forming the thundering backbone of its armies wherever war is waged across the Old World.