Cultist Mob
SWORD: what Cultist Mob kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 50 pts kill ~13 pts in one activation.Typical unit: 47 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against light vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Chaos Daemons
Across the game· units
SHIELD: how hard Cultist Mob is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 50 pts take ~204 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical unit: 305 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· units
What reviewers say
3 reviewers- Cheapest unit that scores and holds 1 of 3
- Backfield screen and midboard holder 1 of 3
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cultist Mob50 pts | B | Bottom 12% | Top 16% | 9of 159 |
| Nurglings45 pts | A | Bottom 7% | Top 1% | 43of 159 |
| Daemonettes100 pts | B | Bottom 49% | Bottom 34% | 23of 159 |
With a leader
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 72 | 72 |
| SHIELD | 408 | 408 |
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 72 | 72 |
| SHIELD | 408 | 408 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Cultist Mob, 10 models, 50 pts, with 10 Autopistol, 10 Brutal assault weapon. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras.
SWORD
Enemy points it kills in one activation, per 100 pts of its own, against a mix of targets weighted like top tournament lists.
50 pts → kills ~13 pts → 26 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.
~204 pts → 408 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 930 units. How we score.
The letter
The average of 7 reviewers' 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). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.
Lists
159 public Chaos Daemons 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.