Lord Exultant
SWORD: what Lord Exultant kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 95 pts kill ~86 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against line infantry, weakest against hordes
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Emperor's Children
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Lord Exultant is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 95 pts take ~213 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· melee units
What creators say
7 creators- Gives Infractors lethal hits to punch up 7 of 7
- In nearly every list, usually two 6 of 7
- Carries strong enhancements 4 of 7
- A big once-a-game turn 3 of 7
- Getting pricey, so two rather than three 3 of 7
- Fragile, so not the warlord 1 of 7
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lord Exultant95 pts | S | Top 6% | Bottom 14% | 173of 180 |
| Sorcerer55 pts | C | Top 2% | Bottom 20% | 8of 180 |
| Daemon Prince of Slaanesh165 pts | C | Top 24% | Top 35% | 9of 180 |
Leading a squad
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 91 | 93 |
| SHIELD | 224 | 233 |
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 91 | 81 |
| SHIELD | 224 | 232 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Lord Exultant, 95 pts, with 1 Bolt pistol, 1 Close combat weapon, 1 Phoenix power spear, 1 Rapture lash, 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: its own abilities and 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.
95 pts → kills ~86 pts → 91 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.
~213 pts → 224 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 572 melee units. How we score.
The letter
The average of 7 creators' 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). Questions? Get in touch.
Lists
180 public Emperor's Children 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 2 Nov.