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Death Riders

Mounted · 5 models, 60 pts

Lists8% · in 10 of 120 public lists, September – November 2026

SimulateDeath Riders against any unit, in the calculator

SWORD: what Death Riders kills

Damage for its points

66pts killed
per 100 pts spent

Its 60 pts kill ~40 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100

Best against hordes, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters

Into each enemy type

Everything66top 30%

Hordes ★154top 2%

Line inf.111top 8%

Heavy inf.63top 49%

Light veh.49bottom 32%

Heavy veh.47bottom 38%

Units near it by SWORD

In Astra Militarum

Catachan Command Squad71

Death Riders66

Sly Marbo65

Gaunt’s Ghosts63

Ogryn Squad62

Across the game· melee units

Daemon Prince of Tzeentch with wings Thousand Sons · just ahead67

Death Riders 66

Red Corsairs Raiders Chaos Space Marines · level with it66

SHIELD: how hard Death Riders is to kill for its points

Toughness for its points

362pts to kill it
per 100 pts spent

Its 60 pts take ~217 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100

For its points362top 28%

Units near it by SHIELD

In Astra Militarum

Valkyrie368

Attilan Rough Riders362

Death Riders362

Deathstrike350

Artillery Team346

Across the game· melee units

Ravenwing Command Squad Dark Angels · just ahead365

Death Riders 362

Decimus Kill Team Space Marines · level with it362

What creators say

6 creators

Reactive move strings out melee armies 3 of 6
Cheap, fast screen 3 of 6
Great when led by Dreir 2 of 6

Poor without Dreir 1 of 6
Their lances hit weakly 1 of 6

Compare

Unit	Letter	SWORD	SHIELD	Lists
Death Riders60 pts	B	Top 30%	Top 28%	10of 120
Attilan Rough Riders60 pts	A	Top 1%	Top 28%	21of 120
Krieg Command Squad60 pts	C	Top 44%	Bottom 45%	9of 120

With a leader

Led by Lord Marshal DreirSWORD into its best target

	Solo	Led
SWORD	154	162
SHIELD	362	362

Led by Lord Solar LeontusSWORD into its best target

	Solo	Led
SWORD	154	154
SHIELD	362	362

Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.

How we got these numbers

What we ran

Death Riders, 5 models, 60 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, 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 ~40 pts → 66 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.

~217 pts → 362 per 100

Top 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.