Samuel de Champlain encounters a Huron ballista-armed frigate

What happens if Samuel de Champlain encounters a Huron frigate armed with twenty-four ballistae?

Cannon would be favoured in a fight, but the response questions whether Champlain had an armed vessel at that encounter and instead imagines an offer of artillery and alliance.

The first response assumes Champlain has a cannon-armed vessel and expects cannon to win a fight against ballistae. That assumption is then reconsidered: at his first meeting with the Huron, he may not have had the armed ship used on a later expedition. In that case, the imagined response is to offer cannon and seek assistance against English interests. The example leads into the British and French practice of arming Indigenous allies, with the War of 1812 mentioned as a later comparison. The encounter is a counterfactual, and Champlain's equipment at the specific meeting remains uncertain.