Dark Commune
SWORD: what Dark Commune kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 90 pts kill ~27 pts in one activation.Typical unit: 48 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· units
SHIELD: how hard Dark Commune is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 90 pts take ~208 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical unit: 305 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
In Chaos Knights
Across the game· units
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dark Commune90 pts | D | Bottom 16% | Bottom 17% | 0of 77 |
| Knight Ruinator325 pts | C | Top 44% | Top 34% | 4of 77 |
| Knight Abominant350 pts | B | Bottom 43% | Top 45% | 3of 77 |
Leading a squad
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 30 | 43 |
| SHIELD | 231 | 302 |
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 30 | 41 |
| SHIELD | 231 | 303 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Dark Commune, 5 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: its own abilities and 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 ~27 pts → 30 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.
~208 pts → 231 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 939 units. 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.