Accursed Cultists
SWORD: what Accursed Cultists kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 90 pts kill ~44 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
In Chaos Knights
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Accursed Cultists is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 90 pts take ~303 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
In Chaos Knights
Across the game· melee units
What reviewers say
4 reviewers- Scouting melee brick that sticks to objectives 1 of 4
- Nobody runs them as a brick 1 of 4
- Squishy now that more weapons hit harder 1 of 4
- Only worth it with a Dark Commune 1 of 4
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accursed Cultists90 pts | D | Bottom 38% | Top 37% | 0of 77 |
| Fellgor Beastmen60 pts | B | Top 33% | Top 12% | 1of 77 |
| Traitor Guardsmen Squad65 pts | B | Bottom 42% | Top 24% | 1of 77 |
With a leader
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 82 | 82 |
| SHIELD | 337 | 337 |
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 82 | 82 |
| SHIELD | 337 | 448 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Accursed Cultists, 8 models, 90 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, in Infernal Lance (Malefic Surge: Diabolic Power: Sustained Hits). On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: 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.
90 pts → kills ~44 pts → 49 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.
~303 pts → 337 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 572 melee units. How we score.
The letter
The average of 7 reviewers' newest Chaos Knights tier lists: Recon By Fire (Knight Intelligence weekly meta watches, 22 and 27 Oct, with 3 Sep's and the War Dog tactics video) (27 Oct), Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (September dataslate review; Competitive Innovations: 2 full lists and 14 summaries, 8 after the dataslate) (24 Oct), Dewgong444 (September dataslate review and his LVO Houndpack list, 4-2) (16 Oct), MevanStudios (detachment tier list, 19 Sep; knights essay 16 Oct) (19 Sep), Tyrant King (his 26-game Lords of Dread/Bastions list and a Hellhunt double battle cannon Despoiler idea) (30 Sep), Vanguard Tactics (competitive breakdown of the 1-DP detachments, preview rules before points) (15 Jun), 1d6chan (community 11th-edition tactics wiki, much text carried over from 10th) (30 Oct). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.
Lists
77 public Chaos Knights 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.