Death Company Dreadnought
SWORD: what Death Company Dreadnought kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 165 pts kill ~132 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against heavy vehicles and monsters, weakest against hordes
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Blood Angels
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Death Company Dreadnought is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 165 pts take ~642 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
In Blood Angels
Across the game· melee units
What reviewers say
10 reviewers- A deadly melee walker, great in the dreadnought detachment 7 of 10
- Faster, with a surge move when shot 4 of 10
- In most winning lists 4 of 10
- Resilient with the sarcophagus enhancement 4 of 10
- Expensive for a dreadnought 1 of 10
- A liability if it doesn't arrive 1 of 10
- No objective control without a chapter character 1 of 10
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Death Company Dreadnought165 pts | A | Top 14% | Top 20% | 20of 87 |
| Baal Predator135 pts | A | Top 28% | Top 39% | 45of 87 |
| Chief Librarian Mephiston175 pts | C | Top 36% | Bottom 27% | 21of 87 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Death Company Dreadnought, 165 pts, with 1 Blood Fist Bolt Rifles, 1 Blood Fists, 1 Twin Icarus ironhail heavy stubber, 1 Twin Multi-melta, in Ironclad Champions. 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.
165 pts → kills ~132 pts → 80 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.
~642 pts → 389 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.