Traitor Guardsmen Squad
SWORD: what Traitor Guardsmen Squad kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 65 pts kill ~27 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against heavy infantry
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Chaos Knights
Across the game· shooters
SHIELD: how hard Traitor Guardsmen Squad is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 65 pts take ~238 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
In Chaos Knights
Across the game· shooters
What reviewers say
4 reviewers- Cheap bodies with solid OC 3 of 4
- Fodder for the healing stratagem 2 of 4
- Not in recent winning lists 1 of 4
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Traitor Guardsmen Squad65 pts | B | Bottom 42% | Top 24% | 1of 77 |
| Fellgor Beastmen60 pts | B | Top 33% | Top 12% | 1of 77 |
| Accursed Cultists90 pts | D | Bottom 38% | Top 37% | 0of 77 |
With a leader
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 78 | 78 |
| SHIELD | 366 | 366 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Traitor Guardsmen Squad, 10 models, 65 pts, with 10 Close combat weapon, 1 Corrupted pistol, 6 Lasgun, 1 Flamer, 1 Cultist sniper rifle, 1 Cultist grenade launcher - frag, 1 Cultist grenade launcher - krak, in Infernal Lance (Malefic Surge: Diabolic Power: Lethal 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.
65 pts → kills ~27 pts → 41 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.
~238 pts → 366 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 407 shooters. 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.