Lord Solar Leontus
SWORD: what Lord Solar Leontus kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 120 pts kill ~47 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against line infantry, 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 Lord Solar Leontus is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 120 pts take ~251 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· melee units
What reviewers say
6 reviewers- Extra command point every turn 4 of 6
- Orders to the back line from safety 2 of 6
- Redeploys help rush lists 2 of 6
- Needs a command squad and battleline, so pricey 2 of 6
- Cheaper officers now give orders 1 of 6
- Rare in winning lists 1 of 6
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lord Solar Leontus120 pts | A | Bottom 17% | Bottom 9% | 39of 88 |
| Commissar Graves125 pts | C | Top 21% | Top 20% | 3of 88 |
| Commissar Yarrick110 pts | B | Bottom 17% | Bottom 4% | 15of 88 |
Leading a squad
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 39 | 57 |
| SHIELD | 209 | 224 |
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 39 | 50 |
| SHIELD | 209 | 196 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Lord Solar Leontus, 120 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, 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.
120 pts → kills ~47 pts → 39 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.
~251 pts → 209 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 572 melee 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.