Goblin Archers

Goblin Archers
Overview
ID	wh_main_grn_inf_goblin_archers
Race	Greenskins
Category	Missile Infantry
Unit size	Small: 30 Medium: 60 Large: 90 Ultra: 120
Recruitment
Tier unit Cost (MP): 375 (375) Turns: 1 Upkeep: 94 Weight: Light Size: 120
Statistics
Health: 6120 (51 per model) Leadership: 40 Speed: 33 Melee Attack: 10 Melee Defence: 15 Charge Bonus: 5
Melee Weapons
Weapon Strength: 24 Base Damage: 21 Armour-Piercing Damage: 3 Melee Interval: 4.3 s Bonus vs. Buildings: +1%
Ranged Weapons
Missile Strength: 14 Base Missile Damage: 10 (10 per volley) Armour-Piercing Missile Damage: 1 (1 per volley) Number of Projectiles: 1 Shots per volley: 1 Bonus vs. Buildings: +1% Reload Time: 8 s Ammunition: 24 Range: 115
Protection
Armor: 25 (18.75% reduction)
Attributes
Resilience: This unit is immune to the following types of attrition: Barren wasteland, Desert. Hide (forest): This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close. Expendable: Witnessing friendly expendable units rout does not reduce other units' leadership, unless they are themselves expendable.

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Goblin Archers can pepper the enemy from afar, with varying success.

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Goblin Archers are a Greenskins missile infantry unit introduced in Total War: Warhammer.

Recruitment

• Greenskins
  • Unlocked with: Greenskin Hideout, Black Crag (Greenskin Hideout), Karak Eight Peaks (Greenskin Hideout) or Occupied Karaz-a-Karak (Greenskin Hideout)
• The Bloody Handz
  • Unlocked with: Wurrzag's Hideout, Black Crag (Greenskin Hideout), Karak Eight Peaks (Greenskin Hideout) or Occupied Karaz-a-Karak (Greenskin Hideout)

Description

Goblins gather in great numbers under the tyranny of an Orc leader, or in widely-varying tribes of their own. Regardless of whether a Goblin is a lackey under the heel of a domineering Orc or the member of a distinct tribe, they make for lacklustre troops. However, Goblins can defeat an enemy through sheer weight of numbers, especially if they can attack from a flank or even better from behind. Goblins prefer to attack defenceless foes and shooting arrows from a distance is likewise a popular type of attack among their kind.

Attributes

• Missile Infantry
• ▲ Expendable: This unit is comparably cheap to recruit, maintain and replenish.
• ▼ Weak Against Armour: This unit's attack can hardly punch through armour and is thus wasted on heavily armoured enemies.
• ▼ Poor Leadership: This unit suffers from poor leadership and will easily rout. Keep its flanks secure and your Lord or other encouraging units nearby.

Scrap Upgrades

Ammo Skinsacks

• Cost: 20
• Ammunition: +45%
• Technology Required: Sharper Stabbas

Heavy Ammo

• Cost: 20
• Armour-piercing missile damage: +3
• Technology Required: Sharper Stabbas

Strategy

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They are good early on when money is a problem and gives the greenskins a counter for enemy flying units like the gyrocopters. While each shot doesn't do a lot of damage, remember, there are over a hundred models in one regiment. As such, they are best used to support da boyz on the front line and against unarmored units.