Primaris Psyker
SWORD: what Primaris Psyker kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 60 pts kill ~35 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 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· shooters
SHIELD: how hard Primaris Psyker is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 60 pts take ~65 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· shooters
What reviewers say
5 reviewers- Barrier suits a big Krieg blob 1 of 5
- Deals very little damage 2 of 5
- Only good in a shooting meta 2 of 5
- Needs to be cheaper 1 of 5
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primaris Psyker60 pts | D | Top 23% | Bottom 1% | 4of 88 |
| Militarum Tempestus Command Squad85 pts | A | Bottom 11% | Bottom 14% | 45of 88 |
| Cadian Command Squad60 pts | B | Bottom 34% | Bottom 28% | 41of 88 |
Leading a squad
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 58 | 71 |
| SHIELD | 108 | 191 |
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 58 | 45 |
| SHIELD | 108 | 255 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Primaris Psyker, 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 ~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.
~65 pts → 108 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.