Servitor Battleclade
SWORD: what Servitor Battleclade kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 75 pts kill ~54 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Adeptus Mechanicus
Across the game· shooters
SHIELD: how hard Servitor Battleclade is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 75 pts take ~471 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
6 creators- Best action unit in the army 3 of 6
- Cheap screens for the army 1 of 6
- The points rise stranded it 4 of 6
- Raiders and Infiltrators now compete 2 of 6
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Servitor Battleclade75 pts | B | Top 8% | Top 1% | 94of 181 |
| Pteraxii Skystalkers75 pts | C | Bottom 38% | Top 28% | 78of 181 |
| Hastarii Exterminators100 pts | C | Top 6% | Top 50% | 13of 181 |
With a leader
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 152 | 160 |
| SHIELD | 628 | 628 |
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 152 | 152 |
| SHIELD | 628 | 628 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Servitor Battleclade, 9 models, 75 pts, with 1 Dataspikes, 1 Heavy arc rifle, 1 Heavy bolter, 3 Incendine igniter, 1 Mechanicus pistol, 1 Meltagun, 2 Phosphor blaster, 8 Servo-claw, in Lords of the Forge. 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.
75 pts → kills ~54 pts → 72 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.
~471 pts → 628 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.