Cultist Mob
SWORD: what Cultist Mob kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 50 pts kill ~40 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
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
Across the game· melee units
What reviewers say
8 reviewers- Sticky objectives and screening for few points 8 of 8
- Block deep strikes 4 of 8
- Do actions without a second thought 3 of 8
- Cost didn't rise while marines did 1 of 8
- Never a frontline unit 1 of 8
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cultist Mob50 pts | S | Top 15% | Top 14% | 127of 134 |
| Plague Marines90 pts | C | Top 5% | Top 25% | 3of 134 |
| Legionaries95 pts | B | Top 2% | Top 41% | 41of 134 |
With a leader
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 158 | 197 |
| SHIELD | 408 | 408 |
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 158 | 181 |
| SHIELD | 408 | 428 |
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 Veterans of the Long War. 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.
50 pts → kills ~40 pts → 79 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 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.