Deathstrike
SWORD: what Deathstrike kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 125 pts kill ~18 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
Across the game· shooters
SHIELD: how hard Deathstrike is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 125 pts take ~525 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· shooters
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deathstrike125 pts | D | Bottom 1% | Top 14% | 0of 55 |
| Hellhound115 pts | S | Bottom 20% | Top 3% | 1of 55 |
| Leman Russ Battle Tank160 pts | S | Top 39% | Top 18% | 1of 55 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Deathstrike, 125 pts, with 1 Armoured tracks, 1 Deathstrike Missile, 1 Heavy flamer, 1 Hunter-killer missile, in Genespawn Onslaught. 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.
125 pts → kills ~18 pts → 14 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.
~525 pts → 420 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 407 shooters. 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.