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Jackal Alphus

Character · 55 pts

Why it's takenIn 9 of 65 public listsThe 22nd most-taken Genestealer Cults unit · Role: Real guns

Lists14% · in 9 of 65 public lists, September – November 2026

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SWORD: what Jackal Alphus kills

Damage for its points

15pts killed
per 100 pts spent

Its 55 pts kill ~8 pts in one activation.Typical unit: 47 per 100

Best against hordes, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters

Into each enemy type

Everything15bottom 5%

Hordes ★21bottom 5%

Line inf.19bottom 4%

Heavy inf.16bottom 4%

Light veh.16bottom 6%

Heavy veh.10bottom 4%

Units near it by SWORD

In Genestealer Cults

Achilles Ridgerunners16

Jackal Alphus15

Deathstrike14

Magus14

Biophagus13

Across the game· units

Valkyrie Astra Militarum · just ahead16

Jackal Alphus 15

Eldrad Ulthran Aeldari · level with it15

SHIELD: how hard Jackal Alphus is to kill for its points

Toughness for its points

160pts to kill it
per 100 pts spent

Its 55 pts take ~88 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical unit: 305 per 100

For its points160bottom 4%

Units near it by SHIELD

In Genestealer Cults

Cadian Heavy Weapons Squad174

Reductus Saboteur169

Catachan Heavy Weapons Squad161

Jackal Alphus160

Benefictus152

Across the game· units

Catachan Heavy Weapons Squad Astra Militarum · just ahead161

Jackal Alphus 160

Commissar Graves on Foot Astra Militarum · level with it160

What creators say

6 creators

Re-rolls for shooting, and moves after 3 of 6

A bit too cute 1 of 6
Rare in winning lists 1 of 6

Compare

Unit	Letter	SWORD	SHIELD	Lists
Jackal Alphus55 pts	C	Bottom 5%	Bottom 4%	9of 65
Acolyte Iconward50 pts	B	Bottom 2%	Top 38%	17of 65
Biophagus50 pts	A	Bottom 4%	Bottom 1%	44of 65

Leading a squad

Leading Atalan Jackals140 pts together

	Solo	Leading
SWORD	15	46
SHIELD	160	200

Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.

How we got these numbers

What we ran

Jackal Alphus, 55 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.

55 pts → kills ~8 pts → 15 per 100

SHIELD

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.

~88 pts → 160 per 100

Top and bottom %

Where each number ranks among the game's 930 units. How we score.

The letter

The average of 7 creators' 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). Questions? Get in touch.

Lists

65 public Genestealer Cults tournament lists, September – November 2026, from grimstat-corpus (CC BY 4.0). Also from Listhammer, MiniHeadQuarters, ChampionsHub. Questions about a list or an event? Get in touch. Numbers run 2 Nov.