Sly Marbo
SWORD: what Sly Marbo kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 55 pts kill ~36 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
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Sly Marbo is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 55 pts take ~105 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
5 reviewers- Cheap infiltrating sniper 2 of 5
- Gaunt's Ghosts fill the same role better 2 of 5
- Dies sitting on a point 2 of 5
- Fun more than competitive 1 of 5
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sly Marbo55 pts | C | Top 32% | Bottom 8% | 9of 88 |
| Nork Deddog60 pts | C | Top 1% | Top 16% | 11of 88 |
| Commissar Graves on Foot65 pts | C | Bottom 27% | Bottom 3% | 8of 88 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Sly Marbo, 55 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.
55 pts → kills ~36 pts → 65 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.
~105 pts → 191 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.