Chaos Lord with Jump Pack
SWORD: what Chaos Lord with Jump Pack kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 85 pts kill ~47 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
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Chaos Lord with Jump Pack is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 85 pts take ~257 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· melee units
What creators say
2 creators- Joins Warp Talons with a free arrival trick 1 of 2
- Tied to the Murdertalon detachment 2 of 2
- Pricey for what it does 1 of 2
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chaos Lord with Jump Pack85 pts | C | Bottom 49% | Bottom 48% | 7of 184 |
| Chaos Lord in Terminator Armour90 pts | B | Bottom 36% | Top 12% | 14of 184 |
| Chaos Lord95 pts | A | Top 43% | Bottom 18% | 33of 184 |
Leading a squad
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 55 | 58 |
| SHIELD | 302 | 265 |
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 55 | 49 |
| SHIELD | 302 | 250 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Chaos Lord with Jump Pack, 85 pts, with 1 Power fist, 1 Plasma pistol - standard, 1 Plasma pistol - supercharge, in Murdertalon Raiders. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: 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.
85 pts → kills ~47 pts → 55 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.
~257 pts → 302 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 571 melee units. How we score.
The letter
The average of 8 creators' 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). Questions? Get in touch.
Lists
184 public Chaos Space Marines tournament lists, September – November 2026, from grimstat-corpus (CC BY 4.0). Also from Listhammer, MiniHeadQuarters, ChampionsHub. Questions about a list or an event? Get in touch. Numbers run 4 Nov.