Catachan Jungle Fighters
SWORD: what Catachan Jungle Fighters kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 70 pts kill ~25 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against light vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· shooters
SHIELD: how hard Catachan Jungle Fighters is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 70 pts take ~226 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
In Astra Militarum
Across the game· shooters
What creators say
5 creators- Cheap scouting bodies for objectives 1 of 5
- Overshadowed, close to last place 2 of 5
- Other scouts fill the role better 3 of 5
- Deals very little damage 1 of 5
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catachan Jungle Fighters70 pts | D | Bottom 25% | Top 40% | 7of 120 |
| Cadian Shock Troops70 pts | B | Bottom 11% | Top 40% | 59of 120 |
| Death Korps of Krieg70 pts | B | Bottom 1% | Top 42% | 23of 120 |
With a leader
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 85 | 93 |
| SHIELD | 323 | 323 |
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 85 | 85 |
| SHIELD | 323 | 360 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Catachan Jungle Fighters, 10 models, 70 pts, with 10 Close combat weapon, 2 Flamer, 7 Lasgun, 1 Laspistol, in Mechanised Assault. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: its own abilities 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.
70 pts → kills ~25 pts → 35 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.
~226 pts → 323 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 407 shooters. 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.