Goliath Rockgrinder
SWORD: what Goliath Rockgrinder kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 110 pts kill ~91 pts in one activation.Typical unit: 48 per 100
Best against light vehicles and monsters, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
SHIELD: how hard Goliath Rockgrinder is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 110 pts take ~403 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical unit: 305 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· units
What reviewers say
5 reviewers- Relevant every phase, free laser after cut 2 of 5
- Pricier than the Truck, and one detachment only 1 of 5
- Absent from winning lists 1 of 5
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goliath Rockgrinder110 pts | C | Top 8% | Top 28% | 10of 55 |
| Chimera75 pts | A | Bottom 25% | Top 4% | 1of 55 |
| Goliath Truck75 pts | B | Top 45% | Top 7% | 24of 55 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Goliath Rockgrinder, 110 pts, with 1 Demolition charge cache, 1 Drilldozer blade, 1 Heavy mining laser, 1 Heavy stubber, 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.
110 pts → kills ~91 pts → 83 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.
~403 pts → 366 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 939 units. 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.