Sicarian Ruststalkers
SWORD: what Sicarian Ruststalkers kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 75 pts kill ~83 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against heavy infantry, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Adeptus Mechanicus
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Sicarian Ruststalkers is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 75 pts take ~250 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 creators say
3 creators- Precision and slingshot charges 1 of 3
- Big units in winning lists 1 of 3
- Bigger bonus near Battleline 1 of 3
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sicarian Ruststalkers75 pts | B | Top 1% | Top 38% | 53of 181 |
| Sicarian Infiltrators75 pts | B | Top 18% | Top 27% | 121of 181 |
| Fulgurite Electro-Priests130 pts | D | Top 6% | Top 48% | 4of 181 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Sicarian Ruststalkers, 5 models, 75 pts, with 1 Transonic blades & chordclaw, 4 Transonic razor & chordclaw, in Eradication Cohort. 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.
75 pts → kills ~83 pts → 110 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.
~250 pts → 333 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 572 melee units. How we score.
The letter
The average of 8 creators' 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). Questions? Get in touch.
Lists
181 public Adeptus Mechanicus 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.