Plaguebearers
SWORD: what Plaguebearers kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 115 pts kill ~36 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against light vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Death Guard
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Plaguebearers is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 115 pts take ~457 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
2 reviewers- Good, sticky objective holders 2 of 2
- Do actions and take objectives back 1 of 2
- Arrive by deep strike near the icon 1 of 2
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plaguebearers115 pts | S | Bottom 7% | Top 18% | 7of 119 |
| Plague Marines175 pts | S | Top 29% | Top 41% | 57of 119 |
| Plague Drones110 pts | D | Bottom 7% | Top 5% | 1of 119 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Plaguebearers, 10 models, 115 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.
115 pts → kills ~36 pts → 31 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.
~457 pts → 397 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.