Cultist Firebrand
SWORD: what Cultist Firebrand kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 45 pts kill ~16 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 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· shooters
SHIELD: how hard Cultist Firebrand is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 45 pts take ~120 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
In Chaos Knights
Across the game· shooters
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cultist Firebrand45 pts | D | Bottom 25% | Bottom 34% | 0of 77 |
| Knight Tyrant390 pts | C | Bottom 42% | Bottom 44% | 1of 77 |
| Knight Ruinator325 pts | C | Top 44% | Top 34% | 4of 77 |
Leading a squad
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 35 | 35 |
| SHIELD | 267 | 352 |
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 35 | 30 |
| SHIELD | 267 | 374 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Cultist Firebrand, 45 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, in Infernal Lance (Malefic Surge: Unnatural Fortitude: FNP 6+). 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.
45 pts → kills ~16 pts → 35 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.
~120 pts → 267 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 407 shooters. How we score.
The letter
No reviewer has rated it yet: it's our estimate from its numbers.
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.