Raptors
SWORD: what Raptors kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 115 pts kill ~54 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against line infantry, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Raptors is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 115 pts take ~295 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· melee units
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raptors115 pts | B | Bottom 34% | Bottom 24% | 2of 159 |
| Fellgor Beastmen60 pts | A | Bottom 34% | Top 12% | 2of 159 |
| Havocs135 pts | A | Bottom 30% | Top 46% | 3of 159 |
With a leader
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 72 | 72 |
| SHIELD | 257 | 257 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Raptors, 5 models, 115 pts, with 3 Astartes chainsword, 3 Bolt pistol, 2 Heavy melee weapon, 2 Plasma pistol - standard, 2 Plasma pistol - supercharge. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras.
SWORD
Enemy points it kills in one activation, per 100 pts of its own, against a mix of targets weighted like top tournament lists.
115 pts → kills ~54 pts → 47 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.
~295 pts → 257 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 572 melee units. How we score.
The letter
No reviewer has rated it yet: it's our estimate from its numbers.
Lists
159 public Chaos Daemons 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 2 Nov.