Attilan Rough Riders
SWORD: what Attilan Rough Riders kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 60 pts kill ~67 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against line infantry
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Attilan Rough Riders is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 60 pts take ~217 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
5 reviewers- Fast, punchy flanking hammer 4 of 5
- Cheap for what they do 2 of 5
- Best only in Grizzled Company 2 of 5
- One-use throwaway damage 1 of 5
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attilan Rough Riders60 pts | A | Top 1% | Top 28% | 14of 88 |
| Death Riders60 pts | B | Top 30% | Top 28% | 6of 88 |
| Krieg Command Squad60 pts | C | Top 44% | Bottom 45% | 5of 88 |
With a leader
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 144 | 144 |
| SHIELD | 362 | 362 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Attilan Rough Riders, 5 models, 60 pts, with 5 Lasgun, 5 Laspistol, 5 Steed's hooves, 5 Hunting lance - frag tip, 5 Hunting lance - melta tip, in Grizzled Company. 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.
60 pts → kills ~67 pts → 112 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.
~217 pts → 362 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 572 melee units. How we score.
The letter
The average of 6 reviewers' newest Astra Militarum tier lists: Mordian Glory (smash or pass, every datasheet) (22 Oct), Euan 40k (unit tier list after the September update) (7 Oct), Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (September dataslate review, Competitive Innovations: 2 full Guard lists and 5 summaries, 3 to 30 Oct) (30 Oct), Auspex Tactics (unit tier list, and the 20 Oct winning-lists video) (5 Sep), Battleborn 40k (dataslate winners and losers, one Guard player) (1 Oct), 1d6chan (community 11th-edition tactics wiki, August points) (30 Oct). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.
Lists
88 public Astra Militarum 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.