Krieg Command Squad
SWORD: what Krieg Command Squad kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 60 pts kill ~35 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Astra Militarum
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Krieg Command Squad is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 60 pts take ~179 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· melee units
What creators say
4 creators- Takes orders even when shocked 2 of 4
- Best of the command squads for one reviewer 1 of 4
- Weak medic and rarely useful rule 1 of 4
- Krieg blocks can go without it 1 of 4
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Krieg Command Squad60 pts | C | Top 44% | Bottom 45% | 9of 120 |
| Cadian Castellan55 pts | C | Bottom 15% | Bottom 6% | 9of 120 |
| Tech-Priest Enginseer45 pts | A | Bottom 10% | Top 44% | 68of 120 |
Leading a squad
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 58 | 69 |
| SHIELD | 298 | 237 |
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 58 | 38 |
| SHIELD | 298 | 276 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Krieg Command Squad, 6 models, 60 pts, with 4 Close combat weapon, 2 Lasgun, 2 Laspistol, 1 Power fist, 1 Power weapon, 1 Plasma gun - standard, 1 Plasma gun - supercharge, 2 Plasma pistol - standard, 2 Plasma pistol - supercharge, 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.
60 pts → kills ~35 pts → 58 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.
~179 pts → 298 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.