Lychguard
SWORD: what Lychguard kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 160 pts kill ~75 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Necrons
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Lychguard is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 160 pts take ~795 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
6 reviewers- An auto-include in Cursed Legion 3 of 6
- Great with the right Overlord leading them 3 of 6
- Hard to hit and hard to wound 2 of 6
- Really only one build 2 of 6
- Wraiths are faster and tougher 1 of 6
- Competes with Wraiths for the slot 1 of 6
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lychguard160 pts | B | Bottom 34% | Top 3% | 87of 255 |
| Skorpekh Destroyers85 pts | A | Top 9% | Top 7% | 124of 255 |
| Ophydian Destroyers80 pts | S | Top 20% | Top 45% | 176of 255 |
With a leader
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 96 | 96 |
| SHIELD | 497 | 497 |
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 96 | 96 |
| SHIELD | 497 | 668 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Lychguard, 10 models, 160 pts, with 10 Hyperphase sword, in Starshatter Arsenal. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: its own abilities and 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.
160 pts → kills ~75 pts → 47 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.
~795 pts → 497 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 Necrons tier lists: Auspex Tactics (Necrons unit tier list, 11th edition) (28 Oct), Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (dataslate review and Competitive Innovations, 2 to 24 Oct: 6 full lists and 8 summaries) (24 Oct), Planet 40K (units used less, best detachment combinations, his 2,000-point list; combined) (26 Oct), PNW 40K (11th-edition tier list, moved by his dataslate-day stream) (1 Oct), Silvertide Tactics (every Necron unit ranked, S to D) (19 Jul), IDICBeer 40k (best Necron anti-tank units, ranked) (6 Oct), 1d6chan (community 11th-edition tactics wiki, partly updated for the dataslate) (30 Oct). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.
Lists
255 public Necrons 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.