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Emperor’s ChildrenECEmperor’s Children

11TH EDITION · PERFORMANCE DOSSIER · THROUGH 2026-W36
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Strength Index · where it wins
STRONGER
rank #5 of 28 · composite +0.776
Top players · where it's rated
A
expert tier · recency-weighted across 5 publications
Win rate · week / patch
44.3% This week 49.9% This patch
weekly 144 games · patch 390 games
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
+1.35σ
53.4% · 2005 games
TOP CUT
+0.42σ
1.1× field share
BLOWOUT
+1.16σ
10.4 avg battle points
CONSISTENCY
-1.22σ
0.025 steadiness
TOP PLAYERS 3.912 (≈ A) recency-weighted across 5 publications — a comparison layer, never blended into the composite
COMPOSITE Z (DEFAULT WEIGHTS)
+0.776
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
  • Chaos Knights 100% 8g
  • Imperial Knights 77% 13g
  • Space Marines 67% 36g
Toughest matchups
  • Leagues of Votann 23% 13g
  • Grey Knights 25% 8g
  • Necrons 30% 20g
Chaos Knights 100% 8g
Imperial Knights 77% 13g
Deathwatch 71% 7g
Space Marines 67% 36g
Death Guard 67% 9g
World Eaters 65% 17g
Astra Militarum 64% 14g
Genestealer Cults 57% 7g
Adepta Sororitas 55% 11g
Drukhari 54% 13g
Blood Angels 54% 13g
Aeldari 50% 10g
T’au Empire 45% 11g
Chaos Daemons 44% 18g
Chaos Space Marines 41% 17g
Thousand Sons 41% 17g
Tyranids 40% 20g
Orks 38% 13g
Dark Angels 38% 24g
Space Wolves 33% 12g
Black Templars 33% 3g
Adeptus Custodes 30% 40g
Necrons 30% 20g
Grey Knights 25% 8g
Leagues of Votann 23% 13g
Adeptus Mechanicus 20% 5g
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
Frenzied Host 171 44% 45% -2.9
Coterie of the Conceited 99 25% 57.7% +4.7
Carnival of Excess 84 22% 51.2% -1.7
Court of the Phoenician READ WITH CARE 74 19% 42.3% -5
Peerless Bladesmen READ WITH CARE 42 11% 46.2% -0.5
Spectacle of Slaughter READ WITH CARE 22 6% 54.6% +4.2
Elegant Brutes READ WITH CARE 17 4% 41.2% -9.6
Mercurial Host READ WITH CARE 10 3% 22.2% -3.4
(unresolved detachment) 81 21% 50.6% +2.4
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 390 games that ran each detachment) and sums above 100%. 79% of games resolved to a named detachment.
TOP BUILDS — the detachment pairings players actually field (shares sum to 100%)
Build Games Share Win rate
Coterie of the Conceited 99 25% 58%
Carnival of Excess + Frenzied Host READ WITH CARE 72 18% 54%
Court of the Phoenician + Frenzied Host READ WITH CARE 70 18% 40%
Frenzied Host + Peerless Bladesmen READ WITH CARE 19 5% 38%
Peerless Bladesmen + Spectacle of Slaughter READ WITH CARE 18 5% 50%

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-W36

This window (singles): 53.4% win rate over 2005 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
Geneva GT III
58-player field
View on BCP
detachment n/a Priority Assets
Datasheets
  • Force de Frappe2000
  • Lucius the Eternal120
  • Flawless Blades95
  • Lord Exultant90
  • Infractors85
  • Lord Exultant100
  • Tormentors80
  • Chaos Spawn70
  • Chaos Terminators145
  • Defiler330
  • Defiler365
#5
ICE HAMMER ITC GT II - 2025/2026
27-player field
View on BCP
Carnival of Excess and Elegant Brutes Take and Hold 2000 pts
Characters
  • Fulgrim340
  • Keeper of Secrets265
  • Keeper of Secrets [Warp Walker]300
  • Shalaxi Helbane315
Datasheets
  • Chaos Spawn70
  • Defiler330
  • Defiler380

WHAT THE WINNING LISTS RUN UNITS IN THIS FACTION’S UNDEFEATED & ONE-LOSS ARMIES · 2026-W36

Across the 5 Emperor’s Children 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 5 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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