Chaos Lord in Terminator Armour
SWORD: what Chaos Lord in Terminator Armour kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 90 pts kill ~43 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against line infantry, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Chaos Space Marines
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Chaos Lord in Terminator Armour is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 90 pts take ~375 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· melee units
What reviewers say
2 reviewers- A fine leader for Terminators 2 of 2
- Stratagem discount and arrival tricks 1 of 2
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chaos Lord in Terminator Armour90 pts | B | Bottom 36% | Top 12% | 11of 134 |
| Chaos Lord95 pts | A | Top 43% | Bottom 18% | 24of 134 |
| Chaos Lord with Jump Pack85 pts | C | Bottom 49% | Bottom 48% | 5of 134 |
Leading a squad
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 48 | 53 |
| SHIELD | 417 | 436 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Chaos Lord in Terminator Armour, 90 pts, with 1 Combi-bolter, 1 Power fist, in Veterans of the Long War. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: its own abilities, the army rule 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 ~43 pts → 48 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.
~375 pts → 417 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 571 melee units. How we score.
The letter
The average of 8 reviewers' newest Chaos Space Marines tier lists: M.S.G. (CSM tier list, 25 Oct) (25 Oct), Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (dataslate review, Detachment Focus, Competitive Innovations: 4 post-dataslate lists) (28 Oct), Auspex Tactics (meta watch of 30 lists, first month of 11th) (14 Jul), Boltgun Tactics (dataslate review and London GT recap; his own lists, inferred) (6 Oct), Exalted40k (every CSM list at the WTC, counted; post-dataslate list writing) (6 Oct), 40K Dirtbags (Chaos Cults list, 3-0 and 1st of 30 at an RTT) (19 Oct), 6 Plus Plus Gaming (interview with Theo Hayat, 5-0 at Birmingham) (14 Jul), 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
134 public Chaos Space Marines 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 4 Nov.