Exalted Eightbound
SWORD: what Exalted Eightbound kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 130 pts kill ~112 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against heavy vehicles and monsters, weakest against hordes
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Exalted Eightbound is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 130 pts take ~343 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- Reliable anti-tank from deep strike 7 of 8
- Best led by a Slaughterbound 5 of 8
- Efficient points for killing big targets 2 of 8
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exalted Eightbound130 pts | S | Top 9% | Bottom 28% | 161of 215 |
| Eightbound125 pts | A | Top 5% | Bottom 31% | 161of 215 |
| Goremongers70 pts | B | Bottom 42% | Bottom 43% | 105of 215 |
With a leader
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 142 | 166 |
| SHIELD | 264 | 264 |
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 142 | 142 |
| SHIELD | 264 | 264 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Exalted Eightbound, 3 models, 130 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, in Khorne Daemonkin (Blood Tithe: Enraged Abjuration). 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.
130 pts → kills ~112 pts → 86 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.
~343 pts → 264 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.