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Cadian Castellan

Character · 55 pts

Why it's takenIn 9 of 120 public listsThe 43rd most-taken Astra Militarum unit

Lists8% · in 9 of 120 public lists, September – November 2026

SimulateCadian Castellan against any unit, in the calculator

SWORD: what Cadian Castellan kills

Damage for its points

38pts killed
per 100 pts spent

Its 55 pts kill ~21 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100

Best against line infantry, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters

Into each enemy type

Everything38bottom 15%

Hordes38bottom 17%

Line inf. ★49bottom 24%

Heavy inf.42bottom 14%

Light veh.36bottom 13%

Heavy veh.30bottom 12%

Units near it by SWORD

In Astra Militarum

Cadian Castellan38

Across the game· melee units

Chaplain with Jump Pack Space Marines · just ahead39

Cadian Castellan 38

Captain Space Marines · level with it38

SHIELD: how hard Cadian Castellan is to kill for its points

Toughness for its points

182pts to kill it
per 100 pts spent

Its 55 pts take ~100 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100

For its points182bottom 6%

Units near it by SHIELD

In Astra Militarum

Sly Marbo191

Cadian Castellan182

Ratlings175

Cadian Heavy Weapons Squad174

Commissar Yarrick167

Across the game· melee units

Uriel Ventris Ultramarines · just ahead183

Cadian Castellan 182

Inquisitor Greyfax Agents of the Imperium · level with it182

What creators say

5 creators

Strong core of a Cadian brick 2 of 5
Lets a big block fall back and shoot 2 of 5

Tied to weak Cadian troops 2 of 5

Compare

Unit	Letter	SWORD	SHIELD	Lists
Cadian Castellan55 pts	C	Bottom 15%	Bottom 6%	9of 120
Krieg Command Squad60 pts	C	Top 44%	Bottom 45%	9of 120
Tech-Priest Enginseer45 pts	A	Bottom 10%	Top 44%	68of 120

Leading a squad

Leading Kasrkin160 pts together

	Solo	Leading
SWORD	38	55
SHIELD	182	209

Leading Cadian Shock Troops125 pts together

	Solo	Leading
SWORD	38	36
SHIELD	182	235

Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.

How we got these numbers

What we ran

Cadian Castellan, 55 pts, with 1 Power fist, 1 Plasma pistol - standard, 1 Plasma pistol - supercharge, in Grizzled Company. 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.

55 pts → kills ~21 pts → 38 per 100

SHIELD

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.

~100 pts → 182 per 100

Top and bottom %

Where each number ranks among the game's 572 melee units. How we score.

The letter

The average of 6 creators' newest Astra Militarum tier lists: Mordian Glory (smash or pass, every datasheet) (22 Oct), Euan 40k (unit tier list after the September update) (7 Oct), Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (September dataslate review, Competitive Innovations: 2 full Guard lists and 5 summaries, 3 to 30 Oct) (30 Oct), Auspex Tactics (unit tier list, and the 20 Oct winning-lists video) (5 Sep), Battleborn 40k (dataslate winners and losers, one Guard player) (1 Oct), 1d6chan (community 11th-edition tactics wiki, August points) (30 Oct). Questions? Get in touch.

Lists

120 public Astra Militarum 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.