Master of Possession
SWORD: what Master of Possession kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 65 pts kill ~45 pts in one activation.Typical unit: 48 per 100
Best against heavy vehicles and monsters, weakest against hordes
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· units
SHIELD: how hard Master of Possession is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 65 pts take ~150 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical unit: 306 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· units
What reviewers say
2 reviewers- Precision psychic and charge help 1 of 2
- Unremarkable in play 1 of 2
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Master of Possession65 pts | D | Top 18% | Bottom 17% | 4of 134 |
| Sorcerer65 pts | C | Top 11% | Bottom 14% | 3of 134 |
| Warpsmith65 pts | B | Top 14% | Bottom 42% | 28of 134 |
Leading a squad
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 69 | 80 |
| SHIELD | 231 | 253 |
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 69 | 63 |
| SHIELD | 231 | 314 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Master of Possession, 65 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, in Nightmare Hunt. 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.
65 pts → kills ~45 pts → 69 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.
~150 pts → 231 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 935 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.