Lord Kakophonist
SWORD: what Lord Kakophonist kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 70 pts kill ~53 pts in one activation.Typical unit: 48 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Emperor's Children
Across the game· units
SHIELD: how hard Lord Kakophonist is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 70 pts take ~281 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical unit: 305 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· units
What reviewers say
7 reviewers- Adds shots and extra hits to Noise Marines 4 of 7
- A big ask for what he adds 3 of 7
- Less useful where extra hits come free 2 of 7
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lord Kakophonist70 pts | B | Top 11% | Top 18% | 23of 146 |
| Sorcerer55 pts | C | Top 2% | Bottom 20% | 8of 146 |
| Lord Exultant95 pts | S | Top 6% | Bottom 14% | 141of 146 |
Leading a squad
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 76 | 76 |
| SHIELD | 401 | 360 |
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 76 | 72 |
| SHIELD | 401 | 295 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Lord Kakophonist, 70 pts, with 1 Close combat weapon, 2 Screamer pistol, 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.
70 pts → kills ~53 pts → 76 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.
~281 pts → 401 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 939 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.