Locus
SWORD: what Locus kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 35 pts kill ~25 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against line infantry, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Locus is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 35 pts take ~121 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· melee units
What reviewers say
5 reviewers- Fights first for the squad 1 of 5
- Effectively just an enhancement 1 of 5
- Doesn't support well 1 of 5
- Absent from winning lists 1 of 5
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Locus35 pts | D | Top 23% | Top 33% | 2of 55 |
| Primus60 pts | B | Bottom 6% | Top 15% | 15of 55 |
| Sanctus60 pts | C | Top 25% | Bottom 19% | 19of 55 |
Leading a squad
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 71 | 59 |
| SHIELD | 346 | 287 |
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 71 | 56 |
| SHIELD | 346 | 272 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Locus, 35 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, in Heroes of the Uprising. 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.
35 pts → kills ~25 pts → 71 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.
~121 pts → 346 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 572 melee 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.