Just because you'll be fighting a lot doesn't mean you should be expanding continuously. You'll be swallowing them up eventually and this is a much Orcier way than confederation through diplomacy. Sometimes you'll want to go and have a biff with a neighbour just for the sake of getting a Waaagh! going, so go ahead and pick on the other Orc and Goblin tribes. Once an army tops out its fightiness it attracts a free Waaagh! stack that can either be allowed to follow it around (they take their own turn immediately after yours) or sent off to harass a specified target. Keeping fightiness high isn't just a way of avoiding animosity.

It costs half a stack's movement to raid, so keep an eye on that yellow bar showing how much an army has left and you can inch across the Old World making money as you go. Raiding counteracts that, and also allows armies to replenish when they're away from home. When fightiness drops too low animosity kicks in and Greenskins will start suffering from attrition as they beat each other up for want of an actual enemy. It's a replacement for trading income, and it's also a way to keep an army's fightiness from deteriorating. Raiding serves two purposes for the Greenskins. While Night Goblins can be fielded with surprise ball-and-chain Fanatics hidden in their ranks to burst out when someone charges them, after that initial surprise you're still left with a pack of rubbish Gobboes standing around being useless. Goblins do make more accurate archers than Orcs, but they're even more likely to take their short-range bows and run away.

Almost every Goblin unit is throwaway, only worth hanging onto until you can afford to replace them with the Orc equivalent–Wolf Riders becoming Boar Boyz, and so on. Like the Vampire Counts with their hordes of Zombies, the Greenskins spend the early game fielding large armies with lots of expendable troops. Of course they're raiding, it's just their way.

But once you play as the Greenskins their strange behaviour starts to make sense and you'll oddly find yourself sympathising with them. Then, when you finally turn to attack them, they roll up with a Waaagh! that has Grimgor Ironhide at its head and he's somehow three levels higher than your own best legendary lord. When you encounter the Greenskins while playing as other factions they're a constant annoyance, showing up when you're busy at war with someone else to raid your lands and drain your bank account and public order.

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