Gargoyles
SWORD: what Gargoyles kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 75 pts kill ~16 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 Gargoyles is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 75 pts take ~204 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100
What reviewers say
1 reviewer- Fast tech scorers 1 of 1
- Cannot fire and fade onto objectives 1 of 1
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gargoyles75 pts | B | Bottom 4% | Bottom 36% | 0of 55 |
| Neophyte Hybrids135 pts | S | Top 30% | Bottom 44% | 52of 55 |
| Acolyte Hybrids with Hand Flamers75 pts | A | Top 48% | Bottom 19% | 40of 55 |
With a leader
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 57 | 65 |
| SHIELD | 272 | 272 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Gargoyles, 10 models, 75 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, 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.
75 pts → kills ~16 pts → 21 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.
~204 pts → 272 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 407 shooters. 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.