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Lemartes

Epic Hero · 110 pts
Why it's takenIn 32 of 87 public listsThe 6th most-taken Blood Angels unit · Role: Hard to shift
Lists37% · in 32 of 87 public lists, September – November 2026
SimulateLemartes against any unit, in the calculator

SWORD: what Lemartes kills

Damage for its points

47pts killed
per 100 pts spent

Its 110 pts kill ~52 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100

Best against line infantry, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters

Into each enemy type

Everything47bottom 34%
Hordes53bottom 43%
Line inf. ★64bottom 48%
Heavy inf.51bottom 28%
Light veh.45bottom 25%
Heavy veh.40bottom 25%
Units near it by SWORD

Across the game· melee units

Terminator Assault Squad Space Marines · just ahead48
Lemartes 47
Bladeguard Veteran Squad Space Marines · level with it47

SHIELD: how hard Lemartes is to kill for its points

Toughness for its points

232pts to kill it
per 100 pts spent

Its 110 pts take ~255 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100

For its points232bottom 16%
Units near it by SHIELD

Across the game· melee units

Troupe Aeldari · just ahead233
Lemartes 232
Sanctifiers Adepta Sororitas · level with it232

What reviewers say

7 reviewers
  • Still the go-to Death Company leader 3 of 7
  • Lethal hits and a damage cut for his unit 3 of 7
  • His Death Company die to massed shooting 1 of 7
  • Left out of winning lists 2 of 7

Compare

UnitLetterSWORDSHIELDLists
Lemartes110 ptsBBottom 34%Bottom 16%32of 87
The Sanguinor120 ptsBBottom 49%Bottom 48%8of 87
Astorath90 ptsCTop 38%Bottom 32%4of 87

Leading a squad

Leading Death Company Marines with Jump Packs240 pts together
SoloLeading
SWORD4756
SHIELD232254

Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.

How we got these numbers

What we ran

Lemartes, 110 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, 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.

110 pts → kills ~52 pts → 47 per 100

SHIELD

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.

~255 pts → 232 per 100

Top 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.