Eightbound
SWORD: what Eightbound kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 125 pts kill ~121 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against heavy infantry, weakest against hordes
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Eightbound is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 125 pts take ~336 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
8 reviewers- Most taken unit in winning lists 3 of 8
- Aura helps nearby World Eaters hit 3 of 8
- Moves up the board to threaten early 2 of 8
- Cheaper after the update 2 of 8
- Fragile for the cost 2 of 8
- Lost its damage bonus and hits marines worse 1 of 8
- Too slow to connect in the new edition 1 of 8
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eightbound125 pts | A | Top 5% | Bottom 31% | 161of 215 |
| Exalted Eightbound130 pts | S | Top 9% | Bottom 28% | 161of 215 |
| Goremongers70 pts | B | Bottom 42% | Bottom 43% | 105of 215 |
With a leader
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 124 | 141 |
| SHIELD | 269 | 269 |
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 124 | 124 |
| SHIELD | 269 | 269 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Eightbound, 3 models, 125 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, in Goretrack Onslaught. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: its own abilities, the army rule 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.
125 pts → kills ~121 pts → 97 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.
~336 pts → 269 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 571 melee units. How we score.
The letter
The average of 9 reviewers' newest World Eaters tier lists: Secondary Objective (with Aiden, a top World Eaters player) (22 Oct), Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (dataslate review and Competitive Innovations, 6 winning lists and about 12 summaries) (25 Oct), Berzerker Dan (a GT World Eaters player) (3 Oct), Grimdark Roundtable (2 Oct), The Glorious Game (14 Oct), Exalted40k (12 Sep), Auspex Tactics (25 GT lists at 4-1 or better) (1 Sep), Tactical Sugar (20 Aug), The Red Path (29 Jun). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.
Lists
215 public World Eaters 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 4 Nov.