Castigator
SWORD: what Castigator kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 165 pts kill ~56 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100
Best against line infantry, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· shooters
SHIELD: how hard Castigator is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 165 pts take ~445 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· shooters
What reviewers say
6 reviewers- Its debuff makes the whole army hit harder 5 of 6
- A staple: take two or three 6 of 6
- Strong chip damage 3 of 6
- The third copy costs extra 1 of 6
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castigator165 pts | S | Bottom 23% | Bottom 34% | 107of 127 |
| Exorcist175 pts | A | Bottom 15% | Bottom 27% | 48of 127 |
| Paragon Warsuits165 pts | S | Top 6% | Top 43% | 114of 127 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Castigator, 165 pts, with 1 Armoured tracks, 1 Castigator autocannons, 3 Heavy bolter, 1 Hunter-killer missile, 1 Storm bolter, in Bringers of Flame. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: the detachment's rule.
SWORD
Enemy points it kills in one activation, per 100 pts of its own, against a mix of targets weighted like top tournament lists.
165 pts → kills ~56 pts → 34 per 100SHIELD
Enemy points it takes to kill it, per 100 pts of its own: the points of the cheapest units from top lists that kill it 80% of the time. It's per point, so a costly unit has to be much tougher to score the same.
~445 pts → 270 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 407 shooters. How we score.
The letter
The average of 7 reviewers' newest Adepta Sororitas tier lists: Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (dataslate review, Competitive Innovations: 4 full winning lists and 11 summaries, 3 to 24 Oct) (30 Oct), Grimdark Breakdown (best units ranked, moved by its 2 Sep list builds) (2 Sep), Christian Von Carmian (11th-edition rules review and the LGT winner's list, his own preferences) (29 Sep), Art of War 40k (army tier list, Sisters segment) (27 Oct), TacticalTortoise 40k (LGT-winning Hallowed Martyrs list explained) (30 Sep), Grand Slam-Gaming (three of his own tournament lists) (11 Sep), 1d6chan (community 11th-edition tactics wiki, much text carried over from 10th) (30 Oct). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.
Lists
127 public Adepta Sororitas tournament lists, September – November 2026, from grimstat-corpus (CC BY 4.0). Also from Listhammer. Organisers and players: ask us and we'll take a list or an event down. Numbers run 2 Nov.