Traitor Guardsmen Squad
SWORD: what Traitor Guardsmen Squad kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 65 pts kill ~36 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against heavy infantry
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· shooters
SHIELD: how hard Traitor Guardsmen Squad is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 65 pts take ~249 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· shooters
What creators say
6 creators- Cheap chaff that is always taken 3 of 6
- Very good in the cults build 2 of 6
- Dropped in cost 2 of 6
- Rare at the team event 1 of 6
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Traitor Guardsmen Squad65 pts | B | Top 26% | Top 21% | 19of 184 |
| Noise Marines160 pts | B | Top 14% | Top 41% | 32of 184 |
| Fellgor Beastmen60 pts | C | Top 5% | Top 12% | 20of 184 |
With a leader
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 111 | 111 |
| SHIELD | 383 | 383 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Traitor Guardsmen Squad, 10 models, 65 pts, with 10 Close combat weapon, 1 Corrupted pistol, 6 Lasgun, 1 Flamer, 1 Meltagun, 1 Cultist grenade launcher - frag, 1 Cultist grenade launcher - krak, 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.
65 pts → kills ~36 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.
~249 pts → 383 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 404 shooters. 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.