Catachan Command Squad
SWORD: what Catachan Command Squad kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 60 pts kill ~43 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Astra Militarum
Across the game· shooters
SHIELD: how hard Catachan Command Squad is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 60 pts take ~158 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· shooters
What reviewers say
4 reviewers- Cheap scouting special-weapon unit 1 of 4
- Overshadowed by the other command squads 2 of 4
- Lost its tough-bodyguard trick 1 of 4
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catachan Command Squad60 pts | C | Top 9% | Bottom 31% | 0of 88 |
| Primaris Psyker60 pts | D | Top 23% | Bottom 1% | 4of 88 |
| Militarum Tempestus Command Squad85 pts | A | Bottom 11% | Bottom 14% | 45of 88 |
Leading a squad
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 71 | 48 |
| SHIELD | 263 | 280 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Catachan Command Squad, 5 models, 60 pts, with 5 Close combat weapon, 4 Laspistol, 1 Flamer, 1 Grenade launcher - frag, 1 Grenade launcher - krak, 1 Heavy flamer, 1 Sniper rifle, 1 Plasma pistol - standard, 1 Plasma pistol - supercharge, 1 Power fist, in Mechanised Assault. 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.
60 pts → kills ~43 pts → 71 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.
~158 pts → 263 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 407 shooters. How we score.
The letter
The average of 6 reviewers' 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). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.
Lists
88 public Astra Militarum 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.