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Plaguebearers

Battleline · 10 models, 115 pts

Lists32% · in 61 of 191 public lists, September – November 2026

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SWORD: what Plaguebearers kills

Damage for its points

31pts killed
per 100 pts spent

Its 115 pts kill ~36 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100

Best against hordes, weakest against light vehicles and monsters

Into each enemy type

Everything31bottom 7%

Hordes ★54bottom 44%

Line inf.42bottom 15%

Heavy inf.29bottom 4%

Light veh.26bottom 5%

Heavy veh.28bottom 9%

Units near it by SWORD

In Chaos Daemons

Daemon Prince of Chaos33

Horticulous Slimux32

Kairos Fateweaver32

Tranceweaver31

Plaguebearers31

Across the game· melee units

Chaos Cerastus Knight Acheron Chaos Knights · just ahead32

Plaguebearers 31

Tranceweaver Chaos Daemons · level with it31

SHIELD: how hard Plaguebearers is to kill for its points

Toughness for its points

397pts to kill it
per 100 pts spent

Its 115 pts take ~457 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100

For its points397top 18%

Units near it by SHIELD

In Chaos Daemons

Skull Cannon410

Cultist Mob408

Plaguebearers397

The Blue Scribes391

Traitor Guardsmen Squad383

Across the game· melee units

Possessed Chaos Space Marines · just ahead399

Plaguebearers 397

C'tan Shard of the Nightbringer Necrons · level with it397

What creators say

6 creators

Sticky objective holders 5 of 6
Great with Warptide for denying objectives 2 of 6
Regrow lost models 1 of 6

Compare

Unit	Letter	SWORD	SHIELD	Lists
Plaguebearers115 pts	A	Bottom 7%	Top 18%	61of 191
Bloodletters110 pts	A	Bottom 43%	Bottom 36%	62of 191
Daemonettes100 pts	B	Bottom 49%	Bottom 34%	23of 191

With a leader

Led by Spoilpox ScrivenerSWORD into its best target

	Solo	Led
SWORD	54	65
SHIELD	397	397

Led by PoxbringerSWORD into its best target

	Solo	Led
SWORD	54	61
SHIELD	397	397

Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.

How we got these numbers

What we ran

Plaguebearers, 10 models, 115 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.

115 pts → kills ~36 pts → 31 per 100

SHIELD

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.

~457 pts → 397 per 100

Top 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.