How much HP do Night Goblins have?

Night Goblins have 8,960 HP across 160 models at Ultra unit size (patch 9.0.4).

How much do Night Goblins cost?

Night Goblins cost 400 in the campaign and in multiplayer.

What is the unit key for Night Goblins?

The unit key is wh_main_grn_inf_night_goblins.

Night Goblins

Melee infantry· Sword Infantry· Tier 1· 160 models at Ultra size

Greenskins

Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.

Night Goblins are Greenskins melee infantry: 8,960 HP across 160 models, armour 15, melee attack 26, melee defence 24, weapon strength 27. It costs 400 in the campaign and in multiplayer. Unit key wh_main_grn_inf_night_goblins. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.

Health

56 per model

8,960

bottom 43% of class

Armour

shield blocks 35% of small-arms missiles from the front (not artillery)

bottom 10% of class

Leadership

bottom 5% of class

Speed

top 48% of class

Melee attack

bottom 20% of class

Melee defence

bottom 13% of class

Weapon strength

20 base + 7 armour-piercing

bottom 19% of class

Charge bonus

bottom 34% of class

Campaign cost: 400
Multiplayer cost: 400
Upkeep: 100
Mass: 90

Unit key (for console commands)

wh_main_grn_inf_night_goblins

Compare with other units

Rank

Leadership: 44
Melee attack: 26
Melee defence: 24
Experience: —

Rank 0 (recruited); the stat card stays at rank 0. Per rank: base^growth_rate × growth_scalar (unit_experience_bonuses, unit_experience_thresholds), patch 9.0.4. Worth in gold: the price at which the ranked unit breaks even against rank-0 copies of itself (combat calculator formulas).

Recruited from

Night Goblin HovelsGoblin Recruitment, level 2Unlock: 1,500 gold, 3 turns · main building level 2 (+2,500 gold, 1 growth from level 1)

The first building level that unlocks it (table building_units_allowed), patch 9.0.4. Unlock (computed): every level of that chain up to it (building_levels create_cost, create_time, one after another) and the main building level it needs, before cost reductions.

Base values at Ultra unit size, rank 0, no skills or items — patch 9.0.4. Hover a number for the game table it comes from. Bars are computed on this site: where the unit sits among melee infantry units players can field.

Attributes

Expendable
Witnessing friendly expendable units rout does not reduce other units' leadership, unless they are themselves expendable.
Vanguard Deployment
This unit can deploy outside the deployment zone.
Stalk
This unit can move hidden in any terrain.

Upgrades

Bought with Scrap

Thicka Robes
Armour · 35 Scrap
- Leadership: +10
- Melee defence: +5
Fungus Flasks
Flask · 50 Scrap · only Crooked Moon
- Passive ability: "Night Goblin Poison"
Spikier Bitz
Weapon · 50 Scrap
- Armour-piercing weapon damage: +5

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

COMPUTEDAt equal gold it beats 74.4% of the game's 194 infantry units in melee. Per 1,000 gold: 204 damage per second against Chaos Warriors; it lasts 57.6 s against one unit of them.

Beats, at a similar price: Grail Reliquae (196.29× faster), Pigback Riders (2.64× faster), Nasty Skulkers (2.50× faster)

Loses to, at a similar price: Men-at-Arms (Shields) (1.60× slower), Goblins (1.60× slower), Clanrats (1.47× 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 400 multiplayer gold. Greenskin units ranked.

Match-ups people search for: Night Goblins vs Goblins · Night Goblins vs Nasty Skulkers

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.