Aegis Defence Line
SWORD: what Aegis Defence Line kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 145 pts kill ~0 pts in one activation.Typical unit: 47 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against hordes
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· units
SHIELD: how hard Aegis Defence Line is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 145 pts take ~580 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical unit: 305 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· units
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aegis Defence Line145 pts | D | Bottom 1% | Top 19% | 0of 55 |
| Jackal Alphus55 pts | C | Bottom 5% | Bottom 4% | 7of 55 |
| Hybrid Metamorphs140 pts | A | Top 40% | Bottom 30% | 34of 55 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Aegis Defence Line, 145 pts, with its datasheet's weapons. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras.
SWORD
Enemy points it kills in one activation, per 100 pts of its own, against a mix of targets weighted like top tournament lists.
145 pts → kills ~0 pts → 0 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.
~580 pts → 400 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 930 units. How we score.
The letter
No reviewer has rated it yet: it's our estimate from its numbers.
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.