Night Goblins (Fanatics)
Melee infantry· Sword Infantry· Tier 2· 160 models at Ultra size
Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.
Night Goblins (Fanatics) are Greenskins melee infantry: 8,960 HP across 160 models, armour 15, melee attack 26, melee defence 24, weapon strength 27. It costs 525 in the campaign and in multiplayer. Unit key wh_main_grn_inf_night_goblin_fanatics. 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)
15
Leadership
44
Speed
35
Melee attack
26
Melee defence
24
Weapon strength
20 base + 7 armour-piercing
27
Charge bonus
14
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.
Abilities
- Spinning LoonsVortex · Causes armour-piercing damage, Small moving area of effect…activeSpinning LoonsVortexCauses armour-piercing damageSmall moving area of effectStrong vs multiple unitsWeak vs a single combatantUnpredictable release from unitCooldown 30 s · Duration 12 s · 3 usesSent mad by drinking fungus brew, Night Goblin Fanatics are released from their mobs as a twirling cyclone of destruction armed with a large ball and chain!
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
Beats, at a similar price: Grail Reliquae (113.95× faster), Warp-Grinders (6.13× faster), Flagellants (2.04× faster)
Loses to, at a similar price: Chaos Dwarf Warriors (2.15× slower), Swordsmen (2.13× slower), Marauders (2.07× 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 525 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.