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Poison! is an attack contact effect which provides a temporary moderate 
armour-piercing missile damage, 
armour-piercing weapon damage, 
base missile damage, 
base weapon damage, 
speed and 
vigour 
debuffs to an enemy unit when hit. It is the classic weakening attack effect in the Total War: Warhammer game series. Attacks imbued with Poison! are said to be poison attacks.
It can be devastating in missile units which can slow, fatigue and ultimately weaken incoming enemy units.
References to poison usually include poison and poison! with an exclamation mark (!). The effect is called poison! and the attack is imbued with the poison effect.
Contents
Effects[]
Armour-piercing missile damage: -15%- Armour-piercing weapon damage: -15%
- Base missile damage: -15%
- Base weapon damage: -15%
- Poison! (10 seconds)
- Speed: -15%
- Vigour: -18%
Notable units[]
- Night Goblins
- Night Goblins (Fanatics)
- Night Goblin Archers
- Night Goblin Archers (Fanatics)
- Night Goblin Warboss
- Forest Goblin Spider Riders
- Forest Goblin Spider Rider Archers
- Night Goblin Squig Hoppers
- Skarsnik
- Giant Spider (Mount)
- Catchweb Spidershrine (Mount)
- Da Rusty Arrers
- The Arachnarok Queen
- Spider Hatchlings
- Deff Creepers
- Da Eight Peak Loonies
- Durkit's Squigs
- Da Swamp Fings (River Trolls)
- Feral Wyvern
- Lava Arachnarok Spider
- Lava Spider Rider Archers
- Armoured Squig Hoppers
- Crypt Ghouls
- Crypt Horrors
- All units in an army led by Helman Ghorst
- The Feasters in the Dusk
- The Konigstein Stalkers
- Morghur
- Chaos Warhounds (Poison)
- Chaos Spawn (Beastmen)
- Jabberslythe
- Groghooves of Wolf's Run (Centigors - Throwing Axes)
- Destroyers of the Drakwald (Ungor Spearmen Herd - Shields)
- Glade Guard (Hagbane Tips)
- Glade Riders (Hagbane Tips)
- Giant Spiders
- Forest Dragon
- Sisters of Twilight
- Any Dreadlord with the Poisonblade or Serpentheart Names of Power
- Slaanesh's Harvesters (Doomfire Warlocks)
- Khainite Assassin
- Death Hag
- Ravagers of Rakarth (Scourgerunner Chariot)
- Amaxon Barbs
- Chameleon Skinks and Blessed Chameleon Skinks (ranged attacks)
- Chameleon Stalkers
- Bastiladon (Ark of Sotek) (ranged attacks)
- Dread Saurian (ranged attacks)
- Feral Troglodon
- Oxyotl
- Pahaux Sentinels (Terradon Riders)
- Stegadon and Blessed Stegadon (ranged attacks)
- Skink Skirmishers and Blessed Skink Skirmishers (ranged attacks)
- Skink Cohort (Javelins) (ranged attacks)
- Skink Chief (ranged attacks)
- Skink Oracle
- Shredder of Lustria (Dread Saurian)
- Red Crested Skinks
- Red Crested Skink Chief
- Terradon Riders
- The Pale Death (Feral Troglodon)
- High Queen Khalida (also gives poison attacks to her entire army)
- King Nekhesh's Scorpion Legion (Skeleton Spearmen)
- Necropolis Knights
- Necropolis Knights (Halberds)
- Venom Knights of Asaph
- Brood Horror
- Brood Horror (mount)
- Gutter Runner Slingers (Poison)
- Gutter Runners (Poison)
- Master Assassin
Notable ancillaries[]
Followers:[]
Items:[]
- Cobra Mace of Mazdamundi
- Emerald Collar
- Everbleed
- Fang of Qu'aph
- Ouroborous
- Venom of the Firefly Frog
- Warlock-Augmented Weapon
Notable spells[]
- Overcast Pestilent Breath from Skaven Spells of Plague
Notes[]
- Poison! vigour reduction increase a unit's fatigue per tick. For example, a unit engaged in combat normally gets 19 fatigue/tick. When poisoned, it's now 22 fatigue/tick.
Trivia[]
- The Lizardmen and the Greenskins have the most units with Poison available to them.
- In WHI and for a long time in WHII, this effect inflicted -20% to all stats affected (aside from vigour which has remained the same).
