Corsair Skyreavers
SWORD: what Corsair Skyreavers kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 75 pts kill ~32 pts in one activation.Typical unit: 48 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· units
SHIELD: how hard Corsair Skyreavers is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 75 pts take ~127 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical unit: 305 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· units
What reviewers say
5 reviewers- Cheap, fast scorers 3 of 5
- Tie up enemies and drain command points 1 of 5
- Show up even in non-pirate lists 1 of 5
- Useless in combat 2 of 5
- Only one winning list took them 1 of 5
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corsair Skyreavers75 pts | B | Bottom 39% | Bottom 5% | 16of 112 |
| Warp Spiders105 pts | B | Bottom 46% | Bottom 9% | 49of 112 |
| Swooping Hawks190 pts | B | Top 38% | Bottom 3% | 40of 112 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Corsair Skyreavers, 5 models, 75 pts, with 1 Blast Pistol, 2 Close combat weapon, 3 Corsair Blade, 1 Flamer, 1 Shredder, 2 Shuriken Pistol. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras.
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 ~32 pts → 43 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.
~127 pts → 169 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 939 units. How we score.
The letter
The average of 7 reviewers' newest Aeldari tier lists: Proxy Hammer (post-dataslate unit tier list) (8 Oct), CraftworldEldar (meta watch of the best lists, dataslate review, starter guide) (17 Oct), Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (Competitive Innovations: 9 winning lists and 10 summaries, and the September balance review) (17 Oct), Battleborn 40k (dataslate points review with the channel's Aeldari player) (4 Oct), 6 Plus Plus Gaming (detachment tier list) (29 Oct), Night Geist Gaming (five of his own lists, run through a damage tool) (27 Oct), 1d6chan (community 11th-edition tactics wiki) (2 Oct). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.
Lists
112 public Aeldari 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 2 Nov.