Great Unclean One
SWORD: what Great Unclean One kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 265 pts kill ~119 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against heavy vehicles and monsters, weakest against hordes
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Death Guard
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Great Unclean One is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 265 pts take ~1133 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
3 reviewers- Soaks fire so everything else keeps fighting 2 of 3
- His auras weaken enemies and buff friends 2 of 3
- Forces morale tests with the right enhancement 1 of 3
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Great Unclean One265 pts | A | Bottom 29% | Top 10% | 10of 119 |
| Daemon Prince of Nurgle185 pts | A | Bottom 19% | Top 33% | 45of 119 |
| Daemon Prince of Nurgle with wings160 pts | A | Bottom 36% | Top 29% | 18of 119 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Great Unclean One, 265 pts, with 1 Bileblade, 1 Putrid vomit, 1 Bilesword - strike, 1 Bilesword - sweep. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: its own abilities.
SWORD
Enemy points it kills in one activation, per 100 pts of its own, against a mix of targets weighted like top tournament lists.
265 pts → kills ~119 pts → 45 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.
~1133 pts → 428 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 571 melee units. How we score.
The letter
The average of 7 reviewers' 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). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.
Lists
119 public Death Guard 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.