Bullgryn Squad
SWORD: what Bullgryn Squad kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 200 pts kill ~82 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against line infantry, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Bullgryn Squad is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 200 pts take ~859 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100
What reviewers say
6 reviewers- Tough brick that stops charges dead 5 of 6
- Counter-punches beside a Commissar 3 of 6
- Front line of winning lists 3 of 6
- Grizzled Company is weak now 1 of 6
- No post-update winning list took one 1 of 6
- Third unit costs more 1 of 6
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bullgryn Squad200 pts | A | Bottom 21% | Top 10% | 23of 88 |
| Krieg Combat Engineers65 pts | A | Top 9% | Bottom 16% | 38of 88 |
| Ogryn Squad120 pts | B | Top 27% | Top 23% | 10of 88 |
With a leader
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 62 | 62 |
| SHIELD | 430 | 430 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Bullgryn Squad, 6 models, 200 pts, with 6 Bullgryn maul, 6 Close combat weapon, in Grizzled Company. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: its own abilities 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.
200 pts → kills ~82 pts → 41 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.
~859 pts → 430 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.