Chief Librarian Mephiston
SWORD: what Chief Librarian Mephiston kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 175 pts kill ~109 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against heavy infantry, weakest against hordes
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Chief Librarian Mephiston is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 175 pts take ~458 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
9 reviewers- A strong, hard-hitting, durable model 5 of 9
- Lock-in aura suits melee armies 2 of 9
- Far too many points 6 of 9
- Absent from winning lists 3 of 9
- His powers risk battle-shocking himself 2 of 9
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chief Librarian Mephiston175 pts | C | Top 36% | Bottom 27% | 21of 87 |
| Commander Dante140 pts | C | Top 36% | Bottom 6% | 39of 87 |
| The Sanguinor120 pts | B | Bottom 49% | Bottom 48% | 8of 87 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Chief Librarian Mephiston, 175 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, in Angelic Inheritors. 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.
175 pts → kills ~109 pts → 62 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.
~458 pts → 262 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.