Archaeopter Stratoraptor
SWORD: what Archaeopter Stratoraptor kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 185 pts kill ~61 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against heavy infantry
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Adeptus Mechanicus
Across the game· shooters
SHIELD: how hard Archaeopter Stratoraptor is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 185 pts take ~465 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
In Adeptus Mechanicus
Across the game· shooters
What creators say
4 creators- Aircraft have no role in the army 3 of 4
- No sensible use 1 of 4
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Archaeopter Stratoraptor185 pts | D | Bottom 22% | Bottom 25% | 0of 181 |
| Skorpius Disintegrator160 pts | A | Top 34% | Top 21% | 135of 181 |
| Onager Dunecrawler150 pts | A | Top 30% | Top 13% | 121of 181 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Archaeopter Stratoraptor, 185 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, in Eradication Cohort. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: its own abilities, 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.
185 pts → kills ~61 pts → 33 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.
~465 pts → 251 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 407 shooters. How we score.
The letter
The average of 8 creators' newest Adeptus Mechanicus tier lists: Belisarius Paul (August tier list moved by his 30 Sep points video and October Eradication/Cybernetica guide) (9 Oct), Omnii (dataslate review with sample lists) (1 Oct), Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (Imperium dataslate review, Competitive Innovations to 30 Oct: 3 full lists and 6 summaries) (30 Oct), Nexos Floof (dataslate review, AdMech part) (12 Oct), DankMechanicus (anti-tank simulation and dataslate review) (4 Oct), Art of War 40k (11th-edition army tier list, AdMech chapter) (27 Oct), Auspex Tactics (army tier list, AdMech part) (23 Oct), 1d6chan (community 11th-edition tactics wiki, much 10th-edition text carried over) (30 Oct). Questions? Get in touch.
Lists
181 public Adeptus Mechanicus tournament lists, September – November 2026, from grimstat-corpus (CC BY 4.0). Also from Listhammer, MiniHeadQuarters, ChampionsHub. Questions about a list or an event? Get in touch. Numbers run 2 Nov.