Dark Apostle
SWORD: what Dark Apostle kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 70 pts kill ~20 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Dark Apostle is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 70 pts take ~259 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· melee units
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dark Apostle70 pts | B | Bottom 5% | Top 24% | 0of 159 |
| Bloodmaster65 pts | A | Bottom 38% | Bottom 12% | 38of 159 |
| Poxbringer60 pts | B | Bottom 5% | Top 33% | 29of 159 |
Leading a squad
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 29 | 52 |
| SHIELD | 370 | 295 |
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 29 | 37 |
| SHIELD | 370 | 291 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Dark Apostle, 3 models, 70 pts, with its datasheet's weapons. 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.
70 pts → kills ~20 pts → 29 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.
~259 pts → 370 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 572 melee units. How we score.
The letter
No reviewer has rated it yet: it's our estimate from its numbers.
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.