Gaunt’s Ghosts
SWORD: what Gaunt’s Ghosts kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 95 pts kill ~60 pts in one activation.Typical unit: 48 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· units
SHIELD: how hard Gaunt’s Ghosts is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 95 pts take ~300 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical unit: 305 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
In Astra Militarum
Across the game· units
What reviewers say
5 reviewers- Best pick-up-and-redeploy scoring unit 5 of 5
- Most taken datasheet in winning lists 3 of 5
- Hard to see, and back in by turn one 2 of 5
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gaunt’s Ghosts95 pts | A | Top 25% | Top 45% | 55of 88 |
| Ursula Creed85 pts | B | Bottom 5% | Bottom 1% | 13of 88 |
| Commissar Yarrick110 pts | B | Bottom 17% | Bottom 4% | 15of 88 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Gaunt’s Ghosts, 6 models, 95 pts, with 1 Bolt pistol, 1 Bragg's autocannon, 1 Corbec's hot-shot lascarbine, 1 Gaunt's chainsword, 1 Larkin's long-las, 1 Lascarbine, 1 Mkoll's straight silver knife, 1 Rawne's lascarbine, 4 Straight silver knife, in Grizzled Company. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: its own abilities, 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.
95 pts → kills ~60 pts → 63 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.
~300 pts → 316 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 939 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.