Fiends
SWORD: what Fiends kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 90 pts kill ~131 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 Fiends is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 90 pts take ~302 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
5 reviewers- Fast, sturdy core of Carnival lists 4 of 5
- Lots of nasty attacks and long charges 3 of 5
- Only really good in Carnival 2 of 5
- Attacks feel weak into marines now 1 of 5
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fiends90 pts | B | Top 1% | Top 37% | 12of 146 |
| Chaos Spawn70 pts | B | Top 6% | Top 19% | 84of 146 |
| Flawless Blades95 pts | S | Top 1% | Top 45% | 123of 146 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Fiends, 3 models, 90 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, 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.
90 pts → kills ~131 pts → 145 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.
~302 pts → 336 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.