Thulia Ghuld
SWORD: what Thulia Ghuld kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 180 pts kill ~106 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against light 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 Thulia Ghuld is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 180 pts take ~704 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
7 reviewers- Makes robots fast and charge-ready 4 of 7
- Keeps tanks hitting with extra buffs 4 of 7
- In every winning full list 1 of 7
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thulia Ghuld180 pts | S | Top 43% | Top 19% | 113of 132 |
| Belisarius Cawl220 pts | A | Bottom 28% | Top 39% | 103of 132 |
| Sydonian Dragoons with taser lances170 pts | B | Top 14% | Top 17% | 27of 132 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Thulia Ghuld, 180 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: 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.
180 pts → kills ~106 pts → 59 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.
~704 pts → 391 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.