Militarum Tempestus Command Squad
SWORD: what Militarum Tempestus Command Squad kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 85 pts kill ~23 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against light vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Astra Militarum
Across the game· shooters
SHIELD: how hard Militarum Tempestus Command Squad is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 85 pts take ~186 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
In Astra Militarum
Across the game· shooters
What reviewers say
5 reviewers- Gives the Scions extra hits and a second order 5 of 5
- Always taken with Scions 4 of 5
- Pricey on its own 1 of 5
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Militarum Tempestus Command Squad85 pts | A | Bottom 11% | Bottom 14% | 45of 88 |
| Primaris Psyker60 pts | D | Top 23% | Bottom 1% | 4of 88 |
| Leman Russ Commander195 pts | B | Top 41% | Top 38% | 16of 88 |
Leading a squad
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 27 | 52 |
| SHIELD | 219 | 207 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Militarum Tempestus Command Squad, 5 models, 85 pts, with 1 Bolt pistol, 4 Close combat weapon, 2 Hot-shot lasgun, 1 Hot-shot laspistol, 1 Hot-shot volley gun, 1 Tempestus dagger, 1 Plasma gun - standard, 1 Plasma gun - supercharge, in Mechanised Assault. 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.
85 pts → kills ~23 pts → 27 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.
~186 pts → 219 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 407 shooters. 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.