Tech-Priest Enginseer
SWORD: what Tech-Priest Enginseer kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 45 pts kill ~15 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 Tech-Priest Enginseer is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 45 pts take ~144 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
In Astra Militarum
Across the game· melee units
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tech-Priest Enginseer45 pts | A | Bottom 10% | Top 44% | 68of 120 |
| Ogryn Bodyguard40 pts | B | Bottom 34% | Top 7% | 12of 120 |
| Cadian Castellan55 pts | C | Bottom 15% | Bottom 6% | 9of 120 |
Leading a squad
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 34 | 63 |
| SHIELD | 320 | 237 |
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 34 | 48 |
| SHIELD | 320 | 243 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Tech-Priest Enginseer, 45 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.
45 pts → kills ~15 pts → 34 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.
~144 pts → 320 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 572 melee units. 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.