Cadian Castellan
SWORD: what Cadian Castellan kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 55 pts kill ~20 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against line infantry, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Genestealer Cults
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Cadian Castellan is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 55 pts take ~100 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· melee units
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cadian Castellan55 pts | D | Bottom 13% | Bottom 6% | 0of 55 |
| Primus60 pts | B | Bottom 6% | Top 15% | 15of 55 |
| Sanctus60 pts | C | Top 25% | Bottom 19% | 19of 55 |
Leading a squad
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 37 | 51 |
| SHIELD | 182 | 209 |
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 37 | 35 |
| SHIELD | 182 | 235 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Cadian Castellan, 55 pts, with 1 Power fist, 1 Plasma pistol - standard, 1 Plasma pistol - supercharge, in Host of Ascension. 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.
55 pts → kills ~20 pts → 37 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.
~100 pts → 182 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 572 melee 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.