Death Korps of Krieg
SWORD: what Death Korps of Krieg kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 70 pts kill ~15 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against light vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Death Korps of Krieg is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 70 pts take ~226 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
In Astra Militarum
Across the game· melee units
What creators say
5 creators- Best battleline, with medics and special weapons 3 of 5
- Cheaper than the Cadians 2 of 5
- Good damage in Combined Arms 1 of 5
- Competitive lists skip battleline infantry 1 of 5
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Death Korps of Krieg70 pts | B | Bottom 1% | Top 42% | 23of 120 |
| Cadian Shock Troops70 pts | B | Bottom 11% | Top 40% | 59of 120 |
| Catachan Jungle Fighters70 pts | D | Bottom 25% | Top 40% | 7of 120 |
With a leader
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 58 | 67 |
| SHIELD | 323 | 323 |
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 58 | 58 |
| SHIELD | 323 | 323 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Death Korps of Krieg, 10 models, 70 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, 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.
70 pts → kills ~15 pts → 21 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.
~226 pts → 323 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 572 melee units. 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.