Goblins
Melee infantry· Sword Infantry· Tier 1· 160 models at Ultra size
Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.
Goblins are Greenskins melee infantry: 8,960 HP across 160 models, armour 25, melee attack 24, melee defence 24, weapon strength 26. It costs 300 in the campaign and in multiplayer. Unit key wh3_main_grn_inf_goblins_sword_shield. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
Health
56 per model
8,960
Armour
shield blocks 35% of small-arms missiles from the front (not artillery)
25
Leadership
50
Speed
33
Melee attack
24
Melee defence
24
Weapon strength
20 base + 6 armour-piercing
26
Charge bonus
12
Attributes
- Expendable
Witnessing friendly expendable units rout does not reduce other units' leadership, unless they are themselves expendable.
- Hide (forest)
This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.
Upgrades
Bought with Scrap
Padded Shields
Armour · 20 Scrap
- Passive ability: "Padded Shields"
Spiky Bitz
Weapon · 50 Scrap
- Armour-piercing weapon damage: +3
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 infantry — infantry-sizede.g. Doom-Flayers, War Mammoth, Feral Mammoth · Greenskins: Rogue Idol, Colossal Squig
- Heavy large units — infantry-sized, mass 90e.g. Dread Maw, Thunderbarge, Steam Tank · Greenskins: Rogue Idol, Giant
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: Nurglings (2.72× faster), Miners (1.95× faster), Ungor Spearmen Herd (1.89× faster)
Loses to, at a similar price: Zombie Pirate Deckhand Mob (1.29× slower), Men-at-Arms (1.12× slower), Men-at-Arms (Shields) (1.03× 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 300 multiplayer gold. Greenskin units ranked.
Match-ups people search for: Goblins vs Gnoblars · Goblins vs Night Goblins
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.