Slaughterbound
SWORD: what Slaughterbound kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 90 pts kill ~60 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against light vehicles and monsters, weakest against hordes
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Slaughterbound is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 90 pts take ~220 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- Turns an Eightbound pack into a one-turn hammer 8 of 8
- Cheaper after the update, so solo copies appear 4 of 8
- Works in every detachment 2 of 8
- Easy to hide and use solo 2 of 8
- Overcosted at launch 1 of 8
- Only one damage profile 1 of 8
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Slaughterbound90 pts | S | Top 29% | Bottom 20% | 153of 215 |
| Lord on Juggernaut95 pts | B | Top 18% | Top 46% | 61of 215 |
| Master of Executions60 pts | A | Top 5% | Bottom 14% | 88of 215 |
Leading a squad
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 67 | 65 |
| SHIELD | 244 | 289 |
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 67 | 72 |
| SHIELD | 244 | 250 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Slaughterbound, 90 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.
90 pts → kills ~60 pts → 67 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.
~220 pts → 244 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.