Saint Celestine
SWORD: what Saint Celestine kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 135 pts kill ~55 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 Saint Celestine is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 135 pts take ~521 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· melee units
What creators say
5 creators- Can still regrow her unit 1 of 5
- Lost her protective trick to the wound rules 3 of 5
- Overpriced, and absent from winning lists 4 of 5
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Celestine135 pts | C | Bottom 21% | Top 20% | 5of 158 |
| Daemonifuge85 pts | A | Bottom 49% | Top 24% | 11of 158 |
| Morvenn Vahl215 pts | S | Bottom 11% | Bottom 5% | 129of 158 |
Leading a squad
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 41 | 43 |
| SHIELD | 386 | 311 |
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 41 | 38 |
| SHIELD | 386 | 311 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Saint Celestine, 3 models, 135 pts, with 2 Bolt Pistol, 2 Power Weapon, 1 The Ardent Blade, 1 The Ardent Blade (melee), in Bringers of Flame. 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.
135 pts → kills ~55 pts → 41 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.
~521 pts → 386 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 572 melee units. How we score.
The letter
The average of 7 creators' 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). Questions? Get in touch.
Lists
158 public Adepta Sororitas tournament lists, September – November 2026, from grimstat-corpus (CC BY 4.0). Also from Listhammer, MiniHeadQuarters, ChampionsHub. Questions about a list or an event? Get in touch. Numbers run 2 Nov.