Swooping Hawks
SWORD: what Swooping Hawks kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 190 pts kill ~105 pts in one activation.Typical unit: 48 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against light vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· units
SHIELD: how hard Swooping Hawks is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 190 pts take ~300 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical unit: 305 per 100
What reviewers say
4 reviewers- Great with the War Walker buff 3 of 4
- Mortal wounds, and good into vehicles 2 of 4
- In many winning lists 2 of 4
- Strong wherever Lhykhis is 1 of 4
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swooping Hawks190 pts | B | Top 38% | Bottom 3% | 40of 112 |
| Warp Spiders105 pts | B | Bottom 46% | Bottom 9% | 49of 112 |
| Corsair Skyreavers75 pts | B | Bottom 39% | Bottom 5% | 16of 112 |
With a leader
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 81 | 81 |
| SHIELD | 158 | 158 |
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 81 | 81 |
| SHIELD | 158 | 158 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Swooping Hawks, 10 models, 190 pts, with 10 Close Combat Weapon, 1 Hawk's Talon, 9 Lasblaster, in Aspect Host (Path of the Warrior: Re-roll hit 1s). On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: 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.
190 pts → kills ~105 pts → 55 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.
~300 pts → 158 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.