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Banehammer

Transport · 385 pts

Why it's takenIn 2 of 120 public listsThe 59th most-taken Astra Militarum unit · Role: Kept alive by an Enginseer

Lists2% · in 2 of 120 public lists, September – November 2026

SimulateBanehammer against any unit, in the calculator

SWORD: what Banehammer kills

Damage for its points

36pts killed
per 100 pts spent

Its 385 pts kill ~139 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100

Best against heavy vehicles and monsters, weakest against hordes

Into each enemy type

Everything36bottom 28%

Hordes36bottom 23%

Line inf.38bottom 24%

Heavy inf.41bottom 33%

Light veh.43bottom 38%

Heavy veh. ★47top 48%

Units near it by SWORD

In Astra Militarum

Banesword38

Cadian Castellan38

Banehammer36

Catachan Jungle Fighters35

Lord Marshal Dreir34

Across the game· shooters

Plagueburst Crawler Death Guard · just ahead37

Banehammer 36

Heavy Intercessor Squad Space Marines · level with it36

SHIELD: how hard Banehammer is to kill for its points

Toughness for its points

296pts to kill it
per 100 pts spent

Its 385 pts take ~1141 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100

For its points296bottom 48%

Units near it by SHIELD

In Astra Militarum

Krieg Command Squad298

Field Ordnance Battery296

Hellhammer296

Rogal Dorn Commander296

Banehammer296

Across the game· shooters

Hexmark Destroyer Necrons · just ahead297

Banehammer 296

Field Ordnance Battery Astra Militarum · level with it296

What creators say

5 creators

Carries Bullgryns and Ogryns forward 1 of 5

Weak special rule 1 of 5
Least played of the super-heavies 1 of 5

Compare

Unit	Letter	SWORD	SHIELD	Lists
Banehammer385 pts	C	Bottom 28%	Bottom 48%	2of 120
Doomhammer380 pts	B	Bottom 20%	Top 49%	15of 120
Stormlord395 pts	B	Bottom 13%	Bottom 45%	12of 120

How we got these numbers

What we ran

Banehammer, 385 pts, with 1 Armoured tracks, 4 Lascannon, 1 Tremor cannon, 1 Twin heavy bolter, 4 Twin heavy flamer, in Mechanised Assault. 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.

385 pts → kills ~139 pts → 36 per 100

SHIELD

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.

~1141 pts → 296 per 100

Top and bottom %

Where each number ranks among the game's 407 shooters. How we score.

The letter

The average of 6 creators' 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). Questions? Get in touch.

Lists

120 public Astra Militarum 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.