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Death GuardArmy page › All 36 units

Biologus Putrifier

Character · 60 pts
Why it's takenIn 55 of 160 public listsThe 13th most-taken Death Guard unit
Lists34% · in 55 of 160 public lists, September – November 2026
SimulateBiologus Putrifier against any unit, in the calculator

SWORD: what Biologus Putrifier kills

Damage for its points

36pts killed
per 100 pts spent

Its 60 pts kill ~22 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100

Best against hordes, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters

Into each enemy type

Everything36bottom 28%
Hordes ★51bottom 48%
Line inf.47bottom 41%
Heavy inf.36bottom 23%
Light veh.32bottom 17%
Heavy veh.30bottom 22%
Units near it by SWORD

In Death Guard

Rotigus37
Plagueburst Crawler37
Chaos Predator Annihilator36
Biologus Putrifier36
Chaos Predator Destructor35

Across the game· shooters

Plagueburst Crawler Death Guard · just ahead37
Biologus Putrifier 36
Heavy Intercessor Squad Space Marines · level with it36

SHIELD: how hard Biologus Putrifier is to kill for its points

Toughness for its points

260pts to kill it
per 100 pts spent

Its 60 pts take ~156 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100

For its points260bottom 30%
Units near it by SHIELD

In Death Guard

Lord of Contagion274
Foul Blightspawn260
Tallyman260
Biologus Putrifier260
Malignant Plaguecaster258

Across the game· shooters

Tesseract Vault Necrons · just ahead261
Biologus Putrifier 260
Chaos Questoris Knight Styrix Chaos Knights · level with it260

What creators say

3 creators
  • Boosts a whole Plague Marine squad's hits 3 of 3
  • The usual pairing with the Plaguecaster 1 of 3
  • Only worth it with a ten-man squad 1 of 3

Compare

UnitLetterSWORDSHIELDLists
Biologus Putrifier60 ptsSBottom 28%Bottom 30%55of 160
Foul Blightspawn60 ptsATop 37%Bottom 30%6of 160
Malignant Plaguecaster60 ptsSTop 4%Bottom 29%109of 160

Leading a squad

Leading Plague Marines235 pts together
SoloLeading
SWORD3665
SHIELD260279

Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.

How we got these numbers

What we ran

Biologus Putrifier, 60 pts, with its datasheet's weapons. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras.

SWORD

Enemy points it kills in one activation, per 100 pts of its own, against a mix of targets weighted like top tournament lists.

60 pts → kills ~22 pts → 36 per 100

SHIELD

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.

~156 pts → 260 per 100

Top and bottom %

Where each number ranks among the game's 404 shooters. How we score.

The letter

The average of 7 creators' newest Death Guard tier lists: The Disgustingly Resilient Podcast (October board) (6 Oct), The Disgustingly Resilient Podcast (July board, daemon allies only) (28 Jul), Goonhammer (Tabletop Battles), faction review and September update (30 Sep), GeneralJannis (1 Oct), Grimdark Breakdown (10 Jul), Zeeto (14 Jun), The Yucky OutBack (three list videos) (3 Aug). Questions? Get in touch.

Lists

160 public Death Guard 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.