Flesh Hounds
SWORD: what Flesh Hounds kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 75 pts kill ~26 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 World Eaters
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Flesh Hounds is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 75 pts take ~301 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- Cheap screens that still matter late 2 of 5
- Every Daemonkin list takes some 2 of 5
- Good for actions and objective hopping 2 of 5
- Not very lethal 1 of 5
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flesh Hounds75 pts | A | Bottom 10% | Top 16% | 15of 215 |
| Chaos Spawn95 pts | C | Top 40% | Bottom 41% | 34of 215 |
| Chaos Rhino75 pts | B | Bottom 4% | Top 4% | 161of 215 |
With a leader
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 88 | 88 |
| SHIELD | 401 | 401 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Flesh Hounds, 5 models, 75 pts, with 1 Burning roar, 5 Gore-drenched fangs, in Khorne Daemonkin (Blood Tithe: Boon of Blood). 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.
75 pts → kills ~26 pts → 34 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.
~301 pts → 401 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.