Shield-Captain on Dawneagle Jetbike
SWORD: what Shield-Captain on Dawneagle Jetbike kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 205 pts kill ~92 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
In Adeptus Custodes
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Shield-Captain on Dawneagle Jetbike is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 205 pts take ~496 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
6 reviewers- Move at the end of a fight is game-changing 3 of 6
- Forces plays and denies secondary scoring 3 of 6
- A strong solo skirmisher in the character detachment 2 of 6
- A nightmare to pin down 2 of 6
- Costly, and most bike units go without 1 of 6
- Rarely played in winning lists 2 of 6
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shield-Captain on Dawneagle Jetbike205 pts | B | Bottom 29% | Bottom 19% | 107of 271 |
| Shield-Captain in Allarus Terminator Armour185 pts | C | Bottom 17% | Bottom 22% | 80of 271 |
| Shield-Captain180 pts | A | Bottom 21% | Bottom 11% | 27of 271 |
Leading a squad
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 45 | 39 |
| SHIELD | 242 | 245 |
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 45 | 35 |
| SHIELD | 242 | 241 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Shield-Captain on Dawneagle Jetbike, 205 pts, with 1 Interceptor lance, 1 Salvo launcher, in Emperor's Chosen. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: 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.
205 pts → kills ~92 pts → 45 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.
~496 pts → 242 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 571 melee units. How we score.
The letter
The average of 8 reviewers' newest Adeptus Custodes tier lists: Auspex Tactics (codex unit tier list, five tiers with tier 2 split) (21 Oct), Art of War 40k (every datasheet in the new codex ranked, with a Custodes specialist) (13 Oct), Black Crow Gaming with 6 Plus Plus Gaming (units tier review, two competitive Custodes and teams players) (28 Oct), Deploy on the Line 40K (first codex tier list, from his own games; characters rated against each other) (7 Oct), Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (codex review, roundtable, Competitive Innovations: 2 new-codex winning lists and 2 summaries) (30 Oct), TacticalTortoise 40k (meta watch of the first three X-1 new-codex lists) (27 Oct), Night Geist Gaming (one own Take and Hold list on preview points, explained unit by unit) (11 Oct), 1d6chan (community 11th-edition tactics wiki, updated for the codex) (30 Oct). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.
Lists
271 public Adeptus Custodes 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.