Noise Marines
SWORD: what Noise Marines kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 160 pts kill ~104 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· shooters
SHIELD: how hard Noise Marines is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 160 pts take ~511 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· shooters
What reviewers say
5 reviewers- Strong anti-marine shooting 3 of 5
- Do well in the siege detachment 1 of 5
- Expensive for what they do 1 of 5
- Cannot use dark pacts 1 of 5
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Noise Marines160 pts | B | Top 14% | Top 41% | 29of 134 |
| Traitor Guardsmen Squad65 pts | B | Top 26% | Top 21% | 16of 134 |
| Obliterators160 pts | C | Top 13% | Bottom 47% | 37of 134 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Noise Marines, 6 models, 160 pts, with 6 Close combat weapon, 4 Sonic blaster, 2 Blastmaster - single frequency, 2 Blastmaster - varied frequency, in Nightmare Hunt. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: 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.
160 pts → kills ~104 pts → 65 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.
~511 pts → 319 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 404 shooters. 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.