Valkyrie
SWORD: what Valkyrie kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 170 pts kill ~27 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against heavy infantry
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· shooters
SHIELD: how hard Valkyrie is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 170 pts take ~625 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· shooters
What creators say
5 creators- Overcosted for what it does 4 of 5
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valkyrie170 pts | D | Bottom 2% | Top 24% | 0of 120 |
| Doomhammer380 pts | B | Bottom 20% | Top 49% | 15of 120 |
| Banehammer385 pts | C | Bottom 28% | Bottom 48% | 2of 120 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Valkyrie, 170 pts, with 1 Armoured hull, 2 Heavy bolter, 1 Multi-laser, 2 Multiple rocket pod, in Siege Regiment (Artillery Support: Incendiary Bombardment). 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.
170 pts → kills ~27 pts → 16 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.
~625 pts → 368 per 100Top 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.