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==Overview==

House Goliath operates and owns many of the Necromunda's great foundries and its workers are the masters of the metal and furnace. House Goliath traded the raw materials from the mines of [[House Orlock]]. The Goliath House mostly revered the physical strength. House Goliath breeds its workers like prize cattle - to create the toughest, strongest, and most unthinkingly loyal workers of the furnace in the [[Imperium]]. They are however, known for being extremely slow, relying on strength alone in battle. Due to the fact that Goliath fighters are not exactly fast on their feet, cunning opponents may attempt to use superior speed to outmaneuver them, robbing them of any combat advantage.{{Fn|3}}

Goliaths are unique among the peoples of Necromunda, being on the whole gene-smithed beings, forged from a stable genus of humanity but enhanced for strength and endurance. Whether or not Goliaths are, in fact, abhumans remains a subject of much debate among the representatives of the [[Adeptus Terra]] on Necromunda, though the Imperium has deemed them ‘sanctioned’ for use on the hive world under the proviso that [[Lord Helmawr]] monitors their development. To date, most Goliaths are still largely created through esoteric biological means – rapidly grown in amneo-vats from flesh-templates and turned out into the refineries and factories for immediate hard labour. These brutish creations are mostly male and mostly sterile, living for less than a decade on a diet of backbreaking work and growth stimms before their bodies fail and they die. Despite this short life-span, Goliaths are born with a baseline knowledge of their world and their position in it delivered via a cranial data-slug. Alphas ensured that the data-slug was altered to include the collected knowledge and experience of the Goliaths who had come before. In this way, the Goliaths share the knowledge of the clan gathered over hundreds of generations, giving them a working understanding of everything from hive industries to clan weaponry.{{Fn|5a}} Vat-birthed, a Goliath can be freakishly huge, larger than even a [[Space Marine]], other than their lack of speed, they are also known suffer from mental imbalances and extremely short lifespans, all this has resulted in many considering them to be a classifiable strain of [[Abhuman]].{{Fn|3}}

==Organization==

[[Image:GoliathOrg.jpg|thumb|right|220px|House Goliath Organization{{Fn|5b}}]]

House Goliath is overseen by a supreme ruler known as an '''Over-Tyrant'''. This overlord holds dominion over the clan via the flow of life-giving [[stimm]]s. Below him are brutal, mostly naturally born gangers known as '''Alphas'''. The largest subfaction within House Goliath are the [[Vatborn (House Goliath)|Vatborn]]. These are the workers who fill the factories of the House, maintain its position as a refining and manufacturing powerhouse on Necromunda and also provide fodder for the Goliath gangs. Second in population size to the Vatborn are the ‘Natborn,’ or natural-born Goliaths. Lastly, there are the ‘Unborn,’ or outsiders. These are by far the smallest sub-group and are made up of men and women who have been ‘enhanced’ by Goliath growth technologies to earn a place among the House. Unborn are unusual in that they have chosen to join the Goliaths, sometimes unwillingly, rather than been born to them.{{Fn|5a}}

==Troops==

*[[Servo-skull]]s{{Fn|12f}}

*[[Breakers]]{{Fn|10g}}

*[[Bone Crushers]]{{Fn|10i}}

*[[Broke-knee Boys]]{{Fn|11a}}

*[[Broke-Tooth Boys]]{{Fn|13b}}

*[[Chemfall Cleavers]]{{Fn|2}}

*[[Dog Soldiers]]{{Fn|10a}}{{Fn|15}}

*[[Furnace Kings]]{{Fn|2}}

*[[Goliath Hive Fiends]] {{Fn|10d}}

*[[Havoc Engines]]{{Fn|15}}

*[[Ironfist Brotherhood]]{{Fn|13a}}

*[[Jaw Breakers]]{{Fn|10b}}

*[[Scrap Lords]]{{Fn|12g}}

*[[Scraphammer Warriors]]{{Fn|11c}}

*[[Steel Brutes]]{{Fn|10f}}

*[[Steel Krocs]]{{Fn|17}}

*[[Skullshank]] - Leader of the [[Ironlords]].{{Fn|3}}

*[[Blutvor]] - Leader of the [[Rowdy Bois]].{{Fn|15}}

*[[Axon Hammer]] – Outlaw{{cite this}}

*[[Krotos Hark]] – Goliath [[bounty hunter]]. {{Fn|11b}}

==Known ex-Goliaths==

*[[Sawskull]] – [[Contract enforcer]].{{Fn|12i}}

==Known Products==

*[[Flamer|Single-grip Flamer 'Juve Cooker']]{{Fn|12b}}

*[[Chainsword|Butcher Pattern Goliath Chainsword]]{{Fn|12h}}

==Images==

Image:HouseGoliath.jpg|2017 Gangers

GoliathMinis2.jpg|House Goliath [[Chain Lord]], [[Shakleman]], and [[Pit Fighter]]s{{Fn|4}}

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*{{Endn|7}}: [[Necromunda: Gangs of the Underhive]], pg. 98 — ''Hangers-on and Brutes''

*{{Endn|8}}: [[White Dwarf 302 (UK)]], pg. 92 - ''Necromunda: The Iron Lords''

*10: [[Necromunda: Gang War]]

**{{Endn|10a}}: pg. 10

*{{Endn|16}}: [https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/05/21/apocrypha-necromundus-lingua-primus-part-1gw-homepage-post-3/ Warhammer-Community: Apocrypha Necromundus: Lingua Primus Part 1]

*{{Endn|17}}: [[Necromunda: Hired Gun]]

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