Celestian Insidiants
SWORD: what Celestian Insidiants kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 115 pts kill ~120 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against line infantry, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Adepta Sororitas
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Celestian Insidiants is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 115 pts take ~344 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
In Adepta Sororitas
Across the game· melee units
What reviewers say
5 reviewers- Counter-meta against psychic armies 5 of 5
- Cheap bodies that hold objectives 2 of 5
- Good second-wave damage dealers 1 of 5
- Value depends on a psyker-heavy meta 2 of 5
- Absent from many lists 1 of 5
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Celestian Insidiants115 pts | B | Top 2% | Bottom 46% | 39of 127 |
| Arco-Flagellants140 pts | B | Bottom 8% | Top 45% | 35of 127 |
| Repentia Squad140 pts | C | Top 3% | Bottom 11% | 36of 127 |
With a leader
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 126 | 151 |
| SHIELD | 299 | 299 |
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 126 | 138 |
| SHIELD | 299 | 299 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Celestian Insidiants, 10 models, 115 pts, with 2 Blessed sword, 3 Condemnor bolt pistol, 1 Inferno pistol, 2 Ministorum hand flamer, 7 Null mace, 1 Virge of Admonition, in Champions of Faith. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: its own abilities and 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.
115 pts → kills ~120 pts → 104 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.
~344 pts → 299 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 572 melee units. 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.