Acolyte Hybrids with Hand Flamers
SWORD: what Acolyte Hybrids with Hand Flamers kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 75 pts kill ~37 pts in one activation.Typical unit: 48 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against light vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Genestealer Cults
Across the game· units
SHIELD: how hard Acolyte Hybrids with Hand Flamers is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 75 pts take ~177 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical unit: 305 per 100
What reviewers say
6 reviewers- Auto-hitting flamers clear hordes and screen 4 of 6
- Nearly every list runs one or two 3 of 6
- Wound re-rolls on objectives 2 of 6
- Cheaper to rebuy than Aberrants 2 of 6
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acolyte Hybrids with Hand Flamers75 pts | A | Top 48% | Bottom 19% | 40of 55 |
| Acolyte Hybrids with Autopistols65 pts | A | Top 14% | Bottom 12% | 46of 55 |
| Neophyte Hybrids135 pts | S | Top 30% | Bottom 44% | 52of 55 |
With a leader
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 152 | 164 |
| SHIELD | 236 | 236 |
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 152 | 158 |
| SHIELD | 236 | 236 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Acolyte Hybrids with Hand Flamers, 5 models, 75 pts, with 5 Cult claws and knife, 5 Hand flamer, in Genespawn Onslaught. 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.
75 pts → kills ~37 pts → 49 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.
~177 pts → 236 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 Genestealer Cults tier lists: Nexos Floof (dataslate review, Las Vegas Open recap, Final Day tier list) (12 Oct), Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (Competitive Innovations: 5 full GSC lists and 8 summaries; September balance review) (30 Oct), 40k Rey (unit tier list) (11 Sep), 40k Vtuber: Christian Von Carmian (tier list stream, A to D) (27 Sep), 6 Plus Plus Gaming (London Open 4-1 with his own list; state of GSC) (28 Jul), Hero of Mathematical Wargaming (Brood Brothers Auxilia with Xenocult Masses, own list) (17 Jul), 1d6chan (community 11th-edition tactics wiki, text largely before the dataslate) (30 Oct). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.
Lists
55 public Genestealer Cults 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.