What are the best Blood Angels units?

The reviewers' average is A for Sanguinary Guard, Death Company Dreadnought, Baal Predator. Then B: Sanguinary Priest, Death Company Captain with Jump Pack, The Sanguinor, Lemartes.

What do the letters mean?

Each letter is the average of the letters 10 reviewers gave that unit, S to D.

What do SWORD and SHIELD mean?

How much a unit kills and how hard it is to remove, for its points. Each is 0 to 100: where it ranks among the game's units of its kind: 90 is the top 10%, 20 the bottom 20%, and 50 is typical.

Which Blood Angels units do lists take most?

Of 87 public lists: Sanguinary Guard (75), Baal Predator (45), Death Company Marines with Jump Packs (41).

Which Blood Angels detachment do tournament lists take most?

Assault Brethren: 33 of the 87 Blood Angels tournament lists of September – November 2026 took it.

Space Marines army

Blood Angels tier list

Tier list and tournament results · 40k 11th edition

Win-rate tierAStat Check

Winning lists851 top-3 finish

Best finish9th of 48La Grande Castagne Ardéchoise

Sep–Nov 2026 · 87 public lists · updated 5 Nov

Results

85winning lists, Sep–Nov 2026

9thof 48La Grande Castagne ArdéchoiseLiberator Assault Group (The Red Thirst) · Death Company Marines with Jump Packs, Bladeguard Veteran Squad, Blood Angels CaptainSep 19 ›All 1 winning lists ›

By month

Jun●●●3 of 137

Jul●●●●●●●●●●●●+37 of 1562

Aug●●●●●●●●●●●●+49 of 1920

Sep●●●●●●●●●●●●+41 of 1816

Oct●●●●●●●●●●●●+44 of 1824

Nov–0 of 34

Its winning lists of all winning lists, each month; the months this page counts in bold.

Detachments

20in its 87 public lists

Assault Brethren33 lists

Liberator Assault Group22 lists

Tacticus Attack Force20 lists

Stormlance Task Force16 lists

Ironclad Champions12 lists

15 more

Rage-cursed Onslaught10 lists

Wrath of the Doomed10 lists

Encarmine Speartip8 lists

Ironstorm Spearhead7 lists

Angelic Inheritors5 lists

Headhunter Task Force5 lists

Legacy of Grace5 lists

Terminator Storm Force5 lists

Tactical Brethren3 lists

Vengeful Hosts3 lists

Deathwatch Support2 lists

The Angelic Host2 lists

1st Company Task Force1 list

Gravis Siege Force1 list

Phobos Shadow Force1 list

Units

14tiers from 10 reviewers

Tier: 10 reviewersBars: our dice maths

Epic Heroes5

The Sanguinor120 pts · 8 listsB Lemartes110 pts · 32 listsB Commander Dante140 pts · 39 listsC Astorath90 pts · 4 listsC

1 more

Chief Librarian Mephiston175 pts · 21 listsC

Characters4

Sanguinary Priest60 pts · 39 listsB Death Company Captain with Jump Pack85 pts · 10 listsB Death Company Captain80 pts · 1 listC Blood Angels Captain90 pts · 8 listsC

Infantry3

Sanguinary Guard275 pts · 75 listsA Death Company Marines90 pts · 6 listsC Death Company Marines with Jump Packs130 pts · 41 listsC

Vehicles2

Death Company Dreadnought165 pts · 20 listsA Baal Predator135 pts · 45 listsA

Each unit: its points and how many of the army's 87 public lists take it, Sep–Nov 2026.

Letters from reviewers; Damage and Toughness (SWORD and SHIELD on unit pages) from our own dice maths (how we score). Lists: grimstat-corpus (CC BY 4.0), September – November 2026. Also from Listhammer. Organisers and players: ask us and we'll take a list or an event down. Sources

Reviewers 30 Oct · SWORD and SHIELD 6 Nov · Points and lists 5 Nov

Questions

What are the best Blood Angels units?: The reviewers' average is A for Sanguinary Guard, Death Company Dreadnought, Baal Predator. Then B: Sanguinary Priest, Death Company Captain with Jump Pack, The Sanguinor, Lemartes.
What do the letters mean?: Each letter is the average of the letters 10 reviewers gave that unit, S to D.
What do SWORD and SHIELD mean?: How much a unit kills and how hard it is to remove, for its points. Each is 0 to 100: where it ranks among the game's units of its kind: 90 is the top 10%, 20 the bottom 20%, and 50 is typical.
Which Blood Angels units do lists take most?: Of 87 public lists: Sanguinary Guard (75), Baal Predator (45), Death Company Marines with Jump Packs (41).
Which Blood Angels detachment do tournament lists take most?: Assault Brethren: 33 of the 87 Blood Angels tournament lists of September – November 2026 took it.

Sources

Letters

Each letter is the reviewers' average. A dashed letter means no reviewer has rated that unit yet: it's our estimate, placed by its numbers among the army's reviewed units.

SWORD and SHIELD

Our own dice maths, last run 6 Nov 2026. Each 0 to 100 score is where it ranks among the game's units of its kind: 90 is the top 10%, 20 the bottom 20%. How we score.

Reviewers

The Blood Angels sources we read, each counted once: tier lists, reviews of their own lists and written reviews. Their tiers are their own, put on our S to D scale by us (their top tier S, and so on down); we show how many gave each and their average.

Happy Krumping (Doc Krump, faction review and recommended list), 12 Oct 2026
Auspex Tactics (full rules review of the BA update, two winning lists), 8 Oct 2026
TacticalRock40K (post-codex character board and epic heroes board), 24 Oct 2026
BA Commander (four post videos: jump Death Company and Sanguinary Guard maths, the first BA GT win, Vanguard Veterans vs BA units), 30 Oct 2026
Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (Competitive Innovations, 10-24 Oct: 11 top-placing BA lists), 30 Oct 2026
TacticalTortoise (The Best Armies in 40k, two weekly meta watches: two undefeated BA lists), 26 Oct 2026
Battleborn 40k (points review with their BA player), 3 Oct 2026
Death Company Dropout (opinion piece), 24 Oct 2026
Art of War 40k (first look at the BA supplement with points), 19 Sep 2026
Grimdark Chronicle (counted panel, older datasheets), 19 Sep 2026

A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us and we take their letters out.

Lists

87 public Blood Angels 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.