Kastelan Robots
SWORD: what Kastelan Robots kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 300 pts kill ~168 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 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· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Kastelan Robots is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 300 pts take ~1148 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
In Adeptus Mechanicus
Across the game· melee units
What reviewers say
8 reviewers- Cybernetica makes them an auto-include 5 of 8
- Fast forward melee threat 5 of 8
- Cheap for their power 3 of 8
- Nearly unkillable with layered protection 2 of 8
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kastelan Robots300 pts | S | Top 48% | Top 21% | 98of 132 |
| Sydonian Dragoons with taser lances170 pts | B | Top 14% | Top 17% | 27of 132 |
| Skorpius Disintegrator160 pts | A | Top 34% | Top 21% | 99of 132 |
With a leader
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 87 | 93 |
| SHIELD | 383 | 433 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Kastelan Robots, 4 models, 300 pts, with 4 Incendine combustor, 4 Twin Kastelan fist, in Haloscreed Battle Clade (Noospheric Transference: Muted Servomotors). On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: 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.
300 pts → kills ~168 pts → 56 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.
~1148 pts → 383 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 572 melee 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.