Belisarius Cawl
SWORD: what Belisarius Cawl kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 220 pts kill ~84 pts in one activation.Typical unit: 48 per 100
Best against heavy vehicles and monsters, weakest against hordes
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Adeptus Mechanicus
Across the game· units
SHIELD: how hard Belisarius Cawl is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 220 pts take ~728 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical unit: 305 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
In Adeptus Mechanicus
Across the game· units
What reviewers say
7 reviewers- Army-wide hit re-rolls into one target 3 of 7
- Serious anti-tank gun of his own 2 of 7
- Often taken alongside Thulia 2 of 7
- Gets feel no pain in Lords of the Forge 1 of 7
- Not needed in Eradication lists 1 of 7
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belisarius Cawl220 pts | A | Bottom 28% | Top 39% | 103of 132 |
| Thulia Ghuld180 pts | S | Top 43% | Top 19% | 113of 132 |
| Kataphron Breachers290 pts | C | Top 39% | Bottom 16% | 4of 132 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Belisarius Cawl, 220 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, in Lords of the Forge. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: its own abilities, the army rule 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.
220 pts → kills ~84 pts → 38 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.
~728 pts → 331 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 939 units. How we score.
The letter
The average of 8 reviewers' newest Adeptus Mechanicus tier lists: Belisarius Paul (August tier list moved by his 30 Sep points video and October Eradication/Cybernetica guide) (9 Oct), Omnii (dataslate review with sample lists) (1 Oct), Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (Imperium dataslate review, Competitive Innovations to 30 Oct: 3 full lists and 6 summaries) (30 Oct), Nexos Floof (dataslate review, AdMech part) (12 Oct), DankMechanicus (anti-tank simulation and dataslate review) (4 Oct), Art of War 40k (11th-edition army tier list, AdMech chapter) (27 Oct), Auspex Tactics (army tier list, AdMech part) (23 Oct), 1d6chan (community 11th-edition tactics wiki, much 10th-edition text carried over) (30 Oct). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.
Lists
132 public Adeptus Mechanicus 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.