Catachan Jungle Fighters
SWORD: what Catachan Jungle Fighters kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 70 pts kill ~23 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 Catachan Jungle Fighters is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 70 pts take ~226 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical unit: 305 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
In Genestealer Cults
Across the game· units
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catachan Jungle Fighters70 pts | A | Bottom 20% | Top 42% | 0of 55 |
| 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 |
With a leader
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 89 | 89 |
| SHIELD | 323 | 323 |
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 89 | 89 |
| SHIELD | 323 | 401 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Catachan Jungle Fighters, 10 models, 70 pts, with 10 Close combat weapon, 2 Flamer, 7 Lasgun, 1 Laspistol, in Host of Ascension. 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.
70 pts → kills ~23 pts → 33 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.
~226 pts → 323 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 939 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.