Peon (Warcraft II)

For lore about peons, see Peon.

This article contains lore taken from Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal, the manuals, and/or official bonus maps.

Peon
Race	Orc
Faction	Horde
Statistics
Hit Points	30
Armor	0
Sight	4
Speed	10 7 (carrying goods)
Production
Gold	400
Food	1
Produced at	Great Hall
Build time	45 seconds
Combat
Basic Damage	3
Piercing Damage	2
Range	1

The label of Peon denotes the lowest station amongst those in the Orcish Horde. Inferior in all skills of import, these dogs are relegated to menial tasks such as harvesting lumber and mining gold. Their labor is also required for the construction and maintenance of buildings necessary to support the vast undertakings of the Horde. Downtrodden, the Orc Peons slave thanklessly to please their overseers.

Information

• Peons are used to mine gold and harvest lumber, and to build and repair buildings and Transports. You must specifically order your Peon to repair a Transport, as right-clicking will make him board it instead.
• Peons move significantly slower when carrying gold or lumber.
• While their default reaction to being attacked is to flee, they can be ordered to fight. While weak, they can sometimes bring down enemy units through weight of numbers, and even a lone Peon can destroy an undefended Ballista given time.

Attack Peons

• Attack Peons are a special type of non-buildable unit that can only be added to a map using third-party map editors (the one that comes with the game cannot do it).
  • Despite this, attack peon stats can be viewed and altered like any other unit in the default editor, presumably an oversight or leftover of some sort.
• They have the same stats as normal Peons and are visually indistinguishable, but cannot gather resources, or build or repair buildings. They lack an attack button, but their default right-click action is to attack. They will also attack automatically if threatened, just like military units.
• Unlike Attack Peasants, they do not appear in any campaign mission.

Trivia

• Peons under computer control will only fight under two conditions:
  • If they are attacked by an enemy Peasant or Peon (not an Attack Peasant or Peon).
  • If the computer player cannot rebuild its Great Hall and you have destroyed all or all but one of their buildings, all its remaining Peons will make a last-ditch attack on your base. However, their AI seems to be bugged, as they will move only a few squares, then stop for a second, then move again, stop etc.

Quotes

• See Warcraft II peon quotes

See also

• Peon (Warcraft I)
• Peon (Warcraft III)