Blood Angels Captain
SWORD: what Blood Angels Captain kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 90 pts kill ~50 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against heavy infantry, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Blood Angels
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Blood Angels Captain is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 90 pts take ~214 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· melee units
What reviewers say
4 reviewers- Gives Company Heroes the chapter keyword for re-rolls 2 of 4
- Probably not worth it on balance 2 of 4
- Cannot lead Bladeguard 1 of 4
- In no winning list 1 of 4
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blood Angels Captain90 pts | C | Top 48% | Bottom 18% | 8of 87 |
| Death Company Captain with Jump Pack85 pts | B | Top 13% | Bottom 36% | 10of 87 |
| Death Company Captain80 pts | C | Top 27% | Bottom 43% | 1of 87 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Blood Angels Captain, 90 pts, with 1 Inferno pistol, 1 Power fist, in Angelic Inheritors. 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.
90 pts → kills ~50 pts → 56 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.
~214 pts → 238 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 566 melee units. How we score.
The letter
The average of 10 reviewers' newest Blood Angels tier lists: Happy Krumping (Doc Krump, faction review and recommended list) (12 Oct), Auspex Tactics (full rules review of the BA update, two winning lists) (8 Oct), TacticalRock40K (post-codex character board and epic heroes board) (24 Oct), BA Commander (four post videos: jump Death Company and Sanguinary Guard maths, the first BA GT win, Vanguard Veterans vs BA units) (30 Oct), Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (Competitive Innovations, 10-24 Oct: 11 top-placing BA lists) (30 Oct), TacticalTortoise (The Best Armies in 40k, two weekly meta watches: two undefeated BA lists) (26 Oct), Battleborn 40k (points review with their BA player) (3 Oct), Death Company Dropout (opinion piece) (24 Oct), Art of War 40k (first look at the BA supplement with points) (19 Sep), Grimdark Chronicle (counted panel, older datasheets) (19 Sep). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.
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. Numbers run 6 Nov.