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Stormsword

Vehicle · 430 pts

Why it's takenIn 14 of 120 public listsThe 32nd most-taken Astra Militarum unit · Role: Kept alive by an Enginseer

Lists12% · in 14 of 120 public lists, September – November 2026

SimulateStormsword against any unit, in the calculator

SWORD: what Stormsword kills

Damage for its points

39pts killed
per 100 pts spent

Its 430 pts kill ~168 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100

Best against heavy vehicles and monsters, weakest against hordes

Into each enemy type

Everything39bottom 36%

Hordes28bottom 13%

Line inf.35bottom 21%

Heavy inf.46bottom 46%

Light veh.52top 40%

Heavy veh. ★69top 15%

Units near it by SWORD

In Astra Militarum

Baneblade39

Commissar Yarrick39

Hellhound39

Leman Russ Vanquisher39

Stormsword39

Across the game· shooters

Exalted Flamer Chaos Daemons · just ahead40

Stormsword 39

Scarab Occult Terminators Thousand Sons · level with it39

SHIELD: how hard Stormsword is to kill for its points

Toughness for its points

265pts to kill it
per 100 pts spent

Its 430 pts take ~1141 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100

For its points265bottom 33%

Units near it by SHIELD

In Astra Militarum

Baneblade275

Banesword275

Stormsword265

Cadian Command Squad263

Catachan Command Squad263

Across the game· shooters

Stompa Orks · just ahead266

Stormsword 265

Venatari with Kinetic Destroyers Adeptus Custodes · level with it265

What creators say

5 creators

Highest output of the super-heavies 2 of 5

Swingy, and the most expensive 1 of 5

Compare

Unit	Letter	SWORD	SHIELD	Lists
Stormsword430 pts	A	Bottom 36%	Bottom 33%	14of 120
Baneblade415 pts	B	Bottom 36%	Bottom 38%	14of 120
Banesword415 pts	A	Bottom 32%	Bottom 38%	20of 120

How we got these numbers

What we ran

Stormsword, 430 pts, with 1 Armoured tracks, 4 Lascannon, 1 Stormsword siege cannon, 5 Twin heavy bolter, in Mechanised Assault. 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.

430 pts → kills ~168 pts → 39 per 100

SHIELD

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.

~1141 pts → 265 per 100

Top and bottom %

Where each number ranks among the game's 407 shooters. 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.