Plagueburst Crawler

Vehicle · 170 pts

Lists10% · in 16 of 160 public lists, September – November 2026

SimulatePlagueburst Crawler against any unit, in the calculator

SWORD: what Plagueburst Crawler kills

Damage for its points

37pts killed
per 100 pts spent

Its 170 pts kill ~63 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100

Best against hordes, weakest against light vehicles and monsters

Into each enemy type

Everything37bottom 30%

Hordes ★52bottom 48%

Line inf.47bottom 41%

Heavy inf.39bottom 29%

Light veh.38bottom 30%

Heavy veh.38bottom 36%

Units near it by SWORD

In Death Guard

Foetid Bloat-drone with heavy blight launcher38

Rotigus37

Plagueburst Crawler37

Biologus Putrifier36

Chaos Predator Annihilator36

Across the game· shooters

Knight Despoiler Chaos Knights · just ahead38

Plagueburst Crawler 37

Infernal Enrapturess Chaos Daemons · level with it37

SHIELD: how hard Plagueburst Crawler is to kill for its points

Toughness for its points

332pts to kill it
per 100 pts spent

Its 170 pts take ~565 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100

For its points332top 35%

Units near it by SHIELD

In Death Guard

Mortarion337

Chaos Predator Annihilator336

Lord of Virulence334

Typhus332

Plagueburst Crawler332

Across the game· shooters

Wazbom Blastajet Orks · just ahead334

Plagueburst Crawler 332

Battle Sisters Squad Adepta Sororitas · level with it332

What creators say

4 creators

Indirect artillery is better than before 2 of 4
Very durable for its points 2 of 4
Great against Custodes 1 of 4

Needs two of them and a spotter 1 of 4
Still a bit too dear 2 of 4

Compare

Unit	Letter	SWORD	SHIELD	Lists
Plagueburst Crawler170 pts	A	Bottom 30%	Top 35%	16of 160
Chaos Predator Destructor140 pts	B	Bottom 25%	Top 44%	3of 160
Foetid Bloat-drone with heavy blight launcher125 pts	B	Bottom 32%	Top 45%	38of 160

How we got these numbers

What we ran

Plagueburst Crawler, 170 pts, with 1 Armoured tracks, 1 Heavy slugger, 1 Plagueburst mortar, 2 Plaguespitter. 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.

170 pts → kills ~63 pts → 37 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.

~565 pts → 332 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.