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Death GuardDGDeath Guard

11TH EDITION · PERFORMANCE DOSSIER · THROUGH 2026-W33
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Strength Index · where it wins
WEAKER
rank #27 of 28 · composite -1.301
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Top players · where it's rated
B
expert tier · recency-weighted across 5 publications
the comparison layer ›
Win rate · week / patch
42.4% This week 43% This patch
weekly 257 games · patch 1793 games
the Archive’s tournament pull ›
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
-1.75σ
43.3% · 1250 games
TOP CUT
-1.29σ
0.3× field share
BLOWOUT
-1.54σ
9.2 avg battle points
CONSISTENCY
+0.91σ
0.031 steadiness
TOP PLAYERS 3.038 (≈ B) recency-weighted across 5 publications — a comparison layer, never blended into the composite
COMPOSITE Z (DEFAULT WEIGHTS)
-1.301
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
  • Deathwatch 64% 14g
  • Aeldari 53% 51g
  • Adeptus Mechanicus 53% 34g
Toughest matchups
  • Imperial Agents 22% 9g
  • Necrons 32% 106g
  • Genestealer Cults 32% 28g
Deathwatch 64% 14g
Aeldari 53% 51g
Adeptus Mechanicus 53% 34g
Grey Knights 51% 45g
Astra Militarum 50% 54g
Tyranids 49% 92g
Black Templars 48% 31g
Blood Angels 44% 54g
Chaos Knights 44% 45g
Space Marines 44% 120g
T’au Empire 43% 93g
Adeptus Custodes 42% 89g
World Eaters 40% 72g
Chaos Space Marines 39% 107g
Adepta Sororitas 39% 46g
Imperial Knights 38% 86g
Space Wolves 38% 45g
Dark Angels 36% 83g
Thousand Sons 35% 77g
Leagues of Votann 34% 68g
Emperor’s Children 34% 74g
Chaos Daemons 33% 78g
Orks 33% 91g
Drukhari 33% 49g
Genestealer Cults 32% 28g
Necrons 32% 106g
Imperial Agents 22% 9g
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 681 38% 44.7% -1.9
Virulent Vectorium 437 24% 41.5% -5.5
Champions of Contagion 288 16% 42.6% -1.5
Contagion Engines 232 13% 43.5% -1.8
Flyblown Host 197 11% 42% -4.4
Death Lord’s Chosen 189 11% 47.8% -2.8
Tallyband Summoners 162 9% 43% -2.5
Mortarion’s Hammer 149 8% 42% -4.9
Shamblerot Vectorium 131 7% 48.8% -0.9
(unresolved detachment) 365 20% 41.7% -6.6
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 1793 games that ran each detachment) and sums above 100%. 80% 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 437 24% 41%
Champions of Contagion + Paragons of Putrescence 244 14% 44%
Death Lord’s Chosen + Paragons of Putrescence 121 7% 49%
Mortarion’s Hammer + Paragons of Putrescence 119 7% 40%
Paragons of Putrescence + Tallyband Summoners 84 5% 46%

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-W33

This window (singles): 43.3% win rate over 1250 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.

#5
Hammer of Wrath GT
40-player field
View on BCP
Mortarion’s Hammer and Paragons of Putrescence Purge the Foe 2000 pts
Characters
  • Mortarion390
Datasheets
  • Defiler330
  • Defiler340
  • 2×Myphitic Blight-haulers100
  • Plagueburst Crawler185
  • 2×Plagueburst Crawler210
  • 2×Poxwalkers65
#6
ELBCOAST CUP 24
31-player field
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Champions of Contagion and Paragons of Putrescence Priority Assets 2000 pts
Characters
  • Lord of Contagion [Host of the Hybridised Pox]160
  • Lord of Virulence100
  • Biologus Putrifier60
  • Malignant Plaguecaster60
  • Tallyman60
  • Typhus100
Datasheets
  • Deathshroud Terminators305
  • Blightlord Terminators370
  • Plague Marines180
  • Chaos Rhino75
  • Chaos Spawn80
  • 2×Foetid Bloat-Drone with Heavy Blight Launcher125
  • Foetid Bloat-Drone with Heavy Blight Launcher135
  • Poxwalkers65
#7
Free State Mid Summers GT
41-player field
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Paragons of Putrescence and Tallyband Summoners Priority Assets 2000 pts
Characters
  • Lord of Contagion [Fell Harvester]130
  • Biologus Putrifier60
  • Malignant Plaguecaster60
  • Great Unclean One265
  • Lord of Virulence [Beckoning Blight]120
  • Rotigus280
Datasheets
  • Deathshroud Terminators160
  • Plague Marines180
  • Chaos Rhino75
  • Beasts of Nurgle140
  • 2×Beasts of Nurgle70
  • Chaos Predator Destructor145
  • 2×Myphitic Blight-haulers100
  • Nurglings45

WHAT THE WINNING LISTS RUN UNITS IN THIS FACTION’S UNDEFEATED & ONE-LOSS ARMIES · 2026-W33

Across the 23 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 23 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.

CROSS-LINKS RECAPS, METHODOLOGY, DIRECTORY

RECENT TOURNAMENT RECAPS

METHODOLOGY

Data: the Archive's first-party BCP pull, edition-lifetime through 2026-W33. Facet z-scores are computed across the competitive roster on the singles subset; top-player tier is the comparison layer, never blended into the composite. See methodology for the exact definitions.