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Death GuardDGDeath Guard

11TH EDITION · PERFORMANCE DOSSIER · THROUGH 2026-W27
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Strength Index · where it wins
WEAKER
rank #23 of 28 · composite -0.595
Top players · where it's rated
B
expert tier · recency-weighted across 5 publications
Win rate · week / patch
56% This week 46.6% This patch
weekly 79 games · patch 376 games · read with care
HYPE AHEAD OF RESULTS — top players rate Death Guard above where its results sit.
HOW TO READ THIS PAGE

WHAT DO THE FACET Z-SCORES MEAN?

Each facet number below is a z-score — a comparison to the whole competitive roster this window. Zero is the roster average; +1.0 is one standard deviation above (roughly the top 16% of factions on that facet), +2.0 is exceptional; the scale mirrors going down. The four facets — win rate, top-cut conversion, blowout margin, consistency — combine into the Strength Index composite, weighted on the tier-list page. Top players is a comparison layer: the curated top-player tier list, shown beside the results but never blended into the composite.

PERFORMANCE VITALS THIS FACTION'S TOURNAMENT RESULTS vs THE ROSTER

WIN RATE
-0.61σ
46.7% · 168 games
TOP CUT
-0.37σ
0.55× field share
BLOWOUT
-0.92σ
9.2 avg battle points
CONSISTENCY
-0.54σ
0.027 steadiness
TOP PLAYERS 3.038 (≈ B) recency-weighted across 5 publications — a comparison layer, never blended into the composite
COMPOSITE Z (DEFAULT WEIGHTS)
-0.595
The blend of the four performance facets at the default weights. Adjust the weights on the Strength Index.

MATCHUPS THIS FACTION vs THE ROSTER · CURRENT PATCH

Best matchups
  • Adeptus Custodes 72% 18g
  • Aeldari 70% 10g
  • World Eaters 67% 12g
Toughest matchups
  • Emperor’s Children 8% 12g
  • Drukhari 19% 16g
  • Thousand Sons 27% 22g
Grey Knights 83% 6g
Adeptus Custodes 72% 18g
Aeldari 70% 10g
World Eaters 67% 12g
Astra Militarum 60% 10g
Tyranids 50% 22g
Leagues of Votann 50% 16g
Space Wolves 50% 10g
Chaos Knights 50% 10g
Blood Angels 50% 8g
Adeptus Mechanicus 50% 8g
Deathwatch 50% 2g
Dark Angels 47% 15g
Chaos Space Marines 45% 20g
T’au Empire 44% 25g
Space Marines 36% 22g
Chaos Daemons 35% 17g
Imperial Knights 33% 18g
Adepta Sororitas 33% 9g
Necrons 30% 27g
Orks 29% 14g
Genestealer Cults 29% 7g
Thousand Sons 27% 22g
Drukhari 19% 16g
Emperor’s Children 8% 12g
Black Templars 0% 7g
Imperial Agents 0% 1g
Win rate against each opponent in the current patch, best first — heat-shaded around an even 50% split. Cells from fewer than 5 games are dimmed (small sample); mirror matches are excluded. The full 28×28 matrix is on Quantum.

DETACHMENTS FOOTPRINT & TOP BUILDS · CURRENT PATCH

Detachment Games Prevalence Win rate VP diff
Paragons of Putrescence 129 34% 50.9% +1.3
Virulent Vectorium 102 27% 42.3% -6.5
Champions of Contagion READ WITH CARE 76 20% 42.2% -1.6
Flyblown Host READ WITH CARE 48 13% 60.5% -0.1
Contagion Engines READ WITH CARE 42 11% 36.4% -4.3
Death Lord’s Chosen READ WITH CARE 40 11% 50% +0.1
Mortarion’s Hammer READ WITH CARE 38 10% 48.7% -1.6
Shamblerot Vectorium READ WITH CARE 19 5% 55.6% -0.8
Tallyband Summoners READ WITH CARE 19 5% 75% +3.7
(unresolved detachment) 68 18% 44.6% -3.7
An 11th-edition army runs multiple detachments, and a game counts toward every detachment it fields — so prevalence is a footprint (share of this faction’s 376 games that ran each detachment) and sums above 100%. 82% of games resolved to a named detachment.
TOP BUILDS — the detachment pairings players actually field (shares sum to 100%)
Build Games Share Win rate
Virulent Vectorium 102 27% 42%
Champions of Contagion + Paragons of Putrescence READ WITH CARE 57 15% 53%
Mortarion’s Hammer + Paragons of Putrescence READ WITH CARE 28 7% 43%
Death Lord’s Chosen + Paragons of Putrescence READ WITH CARE 25 7% 52%
Champions of Contagion + Contagion Engines READ WITH CARE 19 5% 7%

SCORING POSTURE WIN RATE BY MISSION · CURRENT PATCH

How this faction scores across the five mission postures — the bar fills to its win rate, with the mid-line marking an even 50%. Read over the current balance patch; postures under 30 games are marked thin.

RECENT FORM TOURNAMENT RESULTS THIS WINDOW · 2026-W27

This window (singles): 46.7% win rate over 168 games.

Podium finishes this window — faction-anonymous, identified by placing and event:

The condensed composition behind these finishes is in TOP LISTS below.

TOP LISTS CONDENSED COMPOSITION OF THE BEST-PERFORMING LISTS THIS WINDOW

The lists behind this faction’s strongest finishes this window — identified here by placing, event, and field; the complete list lives at the source on BCP. Composition is condensed to datasheets and points; no rules or profile text.

#1
Rally Point Open - Coshocton GT
24-player field
View on BCP
Paragons of Putrescence and Tallyband Summoners Priority Assets 2000 pts
Characters
  • Lord of Contagion [Beckoning Blight]140
  • Great Unclean One [Entropic Knell]280
  • Malignant Plaguecaster [Tome of Bounteous Blessings]80
  • Malignant Plaguecaster60
  • Rotigus280
Datasheets
  • Deathshroud Terminators160
  • Plaguebearers115
  • Chaos Rhino85
  • Beasts of Nurgle70
  • Chaos Spawn80
  • Foetid Bloat-Drone100
  • Myphitic Blight-haulers100
  • Nurglings45
  • Nurglings90
#4
Rally Point Open - Coshocton GT
24-player field
View on BCP
Flyblown Host and Mortarion’s Hammer Purge the Foe 2000 pts
Characters
  • Typhus100
  • Lord of Virulence100
  • Biologus Putrifier60
Datasheets
  • Deathshroud Terminators160
  • Blightlord Terminators185
  • Plague Marines90
  • Foetid Bloat-Drone100
  • Foetid Bloat-Drone with Heavy Blight Launcher125
  • Plagueburst Crawler185
  • Plagueburst Crawler210
#5
Geelong 40K Open 2026
61-player field
View on BCP
Death Lord’s Chosen and Paragons of Putrescence Priority Assets 2000 pts
Characters
  • Lord of Contagion120
  • Mortarion400
  • Noxious Blightbringer [Rejuvenating Swarm]80
  • Tallyman60
  • Typhus100
Datasheets
  • Plague Marines125
  • Chaos Spawn80
  • Deathshroud Terminators160
  • Foetid Bloat-Drone with Heavy Blight Launcher125
  • Poxwalkers130
  • Poxwalkers65

WHAT THE WINNING LISTS RUN UNITS IN THIS FACTION’S UNDEFEATED & ONE-LOSS ARMIES · 2026-W27

Across the 9 Death Guard armies that went undefeated or one-loss this window, ranked by how often each unit appears. Faction-anonymous — the lists are counted, never attributed to a pilot.

“Winning” here means the pilot finished undefeated (X–0) or one-loss (X–1) at a 5+ round singles event with a field of 16 or more. Share is the fraction of those 9 lists that included the unit; a datasheet run in multiples still counts as one list. No rules or profile text — unit names and counts only.

EDITORIAL PERSPECTIVE EDITOR’S READ — INTERPRETIVE, NOT MEASURED

EDITOR

Editorial perspective coming. The Editor’s analysis of this faction’s current competitive position will appear here as the dossier program rolls out.

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