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Chainsword to Eviscerator
Level the Chainsword to 8, hold a Tape Measure at level 1 or higher, and open an evolution chest. The Eviscerator Chainsword is a wide horizontal slash that inflicts Bleeding.
Two Ultramarines, one tape
Malum Caedo and Lieutenant Titus both start with the Chainsword. Caedo is available at the start in the aligned character rows. His passive grows strength as you fill weapon and passive slots, which makes a long slash more interesting once the grid is crowded, but that is a character trait, not part of the evolution math.
Tape Measure reaches level 5 and the max line is plus 50 percent Range. Grandblade uses the same tape. The shared passive appears in both recipe rows, but the result follows the base weapon: Chainsword becomes Eviscerator Chainsword, while Grandblade has its own evolution. The tables do not describe Tape Measure as being consumed.
Bleeding has no published tick in the tables I compared. I am not inventing a damage-over-time number. The adjacent melee line people confuse with this one is the Power Fist, which wants Codex Astartes at level 6 and becomes the Gauntlets of Ultramar. A tape measure will not build those gauntlets.
There is a separate rescue bug, fixed in hotfix 2.1.6, where The Legend of Catachan came back holding a Chainsword instead of Frag Grenades. That affected the rescued champion's equipped weapon, rather than changing the published Chainsword and Tape Measure recipe. The Catachan page covers the grenade line.
| Field | Published detail | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Universe | Warhammer 40,000 | 3 sources |
| Base weapon | Chainsword | 3 sources |
| Catalyst | Tape Measure | 3 sources |
| Catalyst level | 1 | 3 sources |
| Result | Eviscerator Chainsword | 3 sources |
| Result type | Evolution | 3 sources |
| Effect | Evolved Chainsword. Brutal horizontal slash attack that inflicts Bleeding. | 3 sources |
| How it is obtained | Max Chainsword to Lv 8, hold Tape Measure at Lv 1+, then open a chest with an evolution slot. | 3 sources |
Questions
What evolves the Chainsword?
Tape Measure from level 1, after the Chainsword is level 8.
Who starts with it?
Malum Caedo and Lieutenant Titus.
What does the Eviscerator do?
A brutal horizontal slash that inflicts Bleeding, in the published effect line.
Sources
- atma.gg evolution databook — checked 2026-11-12
- TheGamer, 40K evolutions — checked 2026-11-12
- Field Guide weapon evolutions — checked 2026-11-12
- atma.gg characters — checked 2026-11-12