Commissar
SWORD: what Commissar kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 30 pts kill ~5 pts in one activation.Typical unit: 47 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 Commissar is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 30 pts take ~84 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- Needed to order and steady Bullgryns 4 of 5
- Stops battle-shock from biting 2 of 5
- Cheap scoring body 2 of 5
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commissar30 pts | B | Bottom 5% | Bottom 38% | 18of 88 |
| Ministorum Priest35 pts | D | Bottom 37% | Top 47% | 1of 88 |
| Ogryn Bodyguard40 pts | B | Bottom 34% | Top 7% | 11of 88 |
Leading a squad
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 15 | 55 |
| SHIELD | 280 | 340 |
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 15 | 70 |
| SHIELD | 280 | 227 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Commissar, 30 pts, with 1 Bolt pistol, 1 Chainsword, in Grizzled Company. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: the army rule 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.
30 pts → kills ~5 pts → 15 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.
~84 pts → 280 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 930 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.