Chaos Terminators
SWORD: what Chaos Terminators kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 155 pts kill ~147 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against light vehicles and monsters, weakest against hordes
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Chaos Terminators is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 155 pts take ~632 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
7 reviewers- Tougher than the rest of the army 3 of 7
- Deep strike forces the opponent to screen 3 of 7
- Elegant Brutes makes them a real option 3 of 7
- Slow, with little damage for the cost 4 of 7
- Weak outside Elegant Brutes 2 of 7
- Pricier after the update 2 of 7
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chaos Terminators155 pts | C | Top 5% | Top 14% | 13of 146 |
| Flawless Blades95 pts | S | Top 1% | Top 45% | 123of 146 |
| Noise Marines160 pts | B | Top 8% | Top 47% | 43of 146 |
With a leader
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 115 | 117 |
| SHIELD | 408 | 408 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Chaos Terminators, 5 models, 155 pts, with 1 Chainfist, 3 Combi-bolter, 1 Paired accursed weapons, 3 Power fist, 1 Reaper autocannon, in Coterie of the Conceited (Pledges to the Dark Prince: 7+ points). On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: 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.
155 pts → kills ~147 pts → 95 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.
~632 pts → 408 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 572 melee units. How we score.
The letter
The average of 7 reviewers' newest Emperor's Children tier lists: Joy's 40k channel (datasheet tier list, its dataslate review and its detachment tier list) (28 Oct), Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (dataslate review, Detachment Focus, Competitive Innovations: 5 winning lists and 22 summaries) (28 Oct), Auspex Tactics (army overview, top units, winning lists and the WTC's 36 lists) (6 Aug), 1d6chan (community 11th-edition tactics wiki, partly updated for the dataslate) (30 Oct), Grand Slam-Gaming (three of his own lists) (28 Aug), Chaos Coterie (three list builds) (12 Jul), Vanguard Tactics (the 1-DP detachments, on preview rules before points) (10 Jun). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.
Lists
146 public Emperor's Children 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 2 Nov.