Noise Marines
SWORD: what Noise Marines kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 160 pts kill ~115 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 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· shooters
SHIELD: how hard Noise Marines is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 160 pts take ~488 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· shooters
What reviewers say
7 reviewers- One of the army's few sources of shooting 6 of 7
- Advance, disembark from a Rhino and still shoot 3 of 7
- Detachment buffs lift them 2 of 7
- Cost climbed, and many players rate them lower 3 of 7
- Short range needs a Rhino 1 of 7
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Noise Marines160 pts | B | Top 8% | Top 47% | 43of 146 |
| Chaos Terminators155 pts | C | Top 5% | Top 14% | 13of 146 |
| Flawless Blades95 pts | S | Top 1% | Top 45% | 123of 146 |
With a leader
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 105 | 124 |
| SHIELD | 305 | 305 |
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 105 | 105 |
| SHIELD | 305 | 309 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Noise Marines, 6 models, 160 pts, with 6 Close combat weapon, 4 Sonic blaster, 2 Blastmaster - single frequency, 2 Blastmaster - varied frequency, 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.
160 pts → kills ~115 pts → 72 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.
~488 pts → 305 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 407 shooters. 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.