Cultist Mob
SWORD: what Cultist Mob kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 50 pts kill ~27 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against light vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Chaos Knights
Across the game· melee 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 melee unit: 307 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
In Chaos Knights
Across the game· melee units
What reviewers say
4 reviewers- Cheap throwaways that hold objectives 3 of 4
- Make the Iconoclast detachment work 3 of 4
- Screen the backfield and feed healing 1 of 4
- Missing from recent winning lists 1 of 4
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cultist Mob50 pts | A | Bottom 47% | Top 14% | 4of 77 |
| Fellgor Beastmen60 pts | B | Top 33% | Top 12% | 1of 77 |
| War Dog Stalker135 pts | A | Top 18% | Top 23% | 57of 77 |
With a leader
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 104 | 104 |
| SHIELD | 408 | 408 |
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 104 | 104 |
| SHIELD | 408 | 546 |
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, in Infernal Lance (Malefic Surge: Diabolic Power: Lethal 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.
50 pts → kills ~27 pts → 53 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 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.