Forest Goblin Spider Riders
Melee cavalry· Cavalry· Tier 1· 60 models at Ultra size
Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.
Forest Goblin Spider Riders are Greenskins melee cavalry: 5,640 HP across 60 models, armour 45, melee attack 22, melee defence 32, weapon strength 27. It costs 425 in the campaign and in multiplayer. Unit key wh_main_grn_cav_forest_goblin_spider_riders_0. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
Health
94 per model
5,640
Armour
shield blocks 30% of small-arms missiles from the front (not artillery)
45
Leadership
50
Speed
78
Melee attack
22
Melee defence
32
Weapon strength
21 base + 6 armour-piercing
27
Charge bonus
22
Attributes
- Vanguard Deployment
This unit can deploy outside the deployment zone.
- Hide (forest)
This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.
- Strider
Speed and combat penalties caused by terrain are ignored by this unit.
Upgrades
Bought with Scrap
Scrap Saddles
Mount · 35 Scrap
- Armour: +15
- Speed: +15%
Bladed Mandibles
Weapon · 45 Scrap
- Armour-piercing weapon damage: +3
- Charge bonus: +10
Campaign only, from the game's tables (unit_upgrade_to_unit_groups, unit_purchasable_effects), patch 9.0.4. Costs are before skills and technologies that make upgrades cheaper.
Counters
Vulnerable to
- Bonus vs large — large (cavalry-sized or bigger)e.g. Bone Giant, Feral Troglodon, Warp Lightning Cannons · Greenskins: Goblin Bolt Throwa, Lava Arachnarok Spider
Computed from base unit-card values (no skills, items or abilities), one rule per line; examples are units with the most of that trait. How counters are worked out · Try it in the combat calculator
Gold for gold
Beats, at a similar price: Corpse Cart (Balefire) (245.63× faster), Corpse Cart (Unholy Lodestone) (245.63× faster), Corpse Cart (88.43× faster)
Loses to, at a similar price: Goblin Wolf Riders (1.17× slower)
Equal gold, every model fighting at its weapon's attack interval, combat calculator formulas; no charge, mass, splash, leadership or abilities. “Similar price”: within 30% of its 425 multiplayer gold. Greenskin units ranked.
Who can field it
- Greenskins · Grimgor's 'Ardboyz
Custom Battle lists factions under each race; every faction of a race fields that race's units (units_custom_battle_permissions rows of any of its factions). The name after the race is the faction the army builder uses.
Where these numbers come from
Read from the game's database tables for patch 9.0.4 (main_units, land_units, battle_entities, melee_weapons, projectiles…) as published in the WH3-Dump export (commit 099796e8). Formulas that turn table values into card values are checked against known units before they are shown — how we verify.