Bloodthirster
SWORD: what Bloodthirster kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 320 pts kill ~160 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against heavy vehicles and monsters, weakest against hordes
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Bloodthirster is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 320 pts take ~819 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100
What creators say
2 creators- Preferred over Daemon Princes 1 of 2
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bloodthirster320 pts | C | Bottom 40% | Bottom 23% | 60of 191 |
| Great Unclean One265 pts | B | Bottom 21% | Top 8% | 49of 191 |
| Keeper of Secrets265 pts | B | Bottom 27% | Top 31% | 22of 191 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Bloodthirster, 320 pts, with 1 Hellfire breath, 1 Great axe of Khorne - strike, 1 Great axe of Khorne - sweep. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: its own abilities.
SWORD
Enemy points it kills in one activation, per 100 pts of its own, against a mix of targets weighted like top tournament lists.
320 pts → kills ~160 pts → 50 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.
~819 pts → 256 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 572 melee units. How we score.
The letter
The average of 7 creators' newest Chaos Daemons tier lists: FattyMatty 40k (Demonic Mondays: his own verdicts and games, Plague Legion player) (26 Oct), Barnyard Wargaming (Daemons specialist: October team-event vlog and June first impressions) (26 Oct), Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (Competitive Innovations: 4 winning lists and 14 summaries, 2 Oct to 30 Oct) (30 Oct), 40K Fireside (team New Zealand captain, Daemons player: three WTC lists) (3 Aug), Auspex Tactics (army tier list's Daemons segment, 23 Oct, and one strong list) (23 Oct), True Daemon Lord (Daemons-only channel: Plague Legion in 11th, preview rules before points) (12 Jun), 1d6chan (community 11th-edition tactics wiki, largely carried over from 10th) (30 Oct). Questions? Get in touch.
Lists
191 public Chaos Daemons 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.