Gladiator Valiant
SWORD: what Gladiator Valiant kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 145 pts kill ~86 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100
Best against heavy vehicles and monsters, weakest against hordes
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Black Templars
Across the game· shooters
SHIELD: how hard Gladiator Valiant is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 145 pts take ~450 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- The close-range hull Templars should take 3 of 5
- Two in a placing melta list 1 of 5
- Ranked only mid-table 2 of 5
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gladiator Valiant145 pts | B | Top 21% | Bottom 37% | 3of 50 |
| Gladiator Lancer165 pts | C | Bottom 20% | Bottom 40% | 5of 50 |
| Gladiator Reaper165 pts | C | Bottom 48% | Bottom 37% | 3of 50 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Gladiator Valiant, 145 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, in Ironstorm Spearhead. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: its own abilities and 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.
145 pts → kills ~86 pts → 59 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.
~450 pts → 273 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 403 shooters. How we score.
The letter
The average of 8 reviewers' newest Black Templars tier lists: Implausible Nature (Black Templar channel: three detachment deep dives and the rules preview) (13 Oct), Auspex Tactics (every BT datasheet with the dataslate's points; codex unit tier list for the generic units) (16 Oct), TacticalRock40K (character board and vehicle board, after the codex) (21 Oct), Art of War 40k (BT supplement review before points; generic units from its 20 Oct datasheet ranking) (20 Oct), Vanguard Tactics (BT index review from the preview copy, before points) (24 Sep), Griffin's Crusade (casual BT channel: post-codex options and three theory lists) (24 Oct), Goonhammer / Tabletop Battles (Competitive Innovations: four post-codex BT lists, one in full) (23 Oct), TacticalTortoise 40k (The Best Armies in 40k: one undefeated BT list) (12 Oct). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.
Lists
50 public Black Templars 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 6 Nov.