Raptors
SWORD: what Raptors kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 115 pts kill ~75 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
In Chaos Space Marines
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 ~352 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· melee units
What creators say
6 creators- Versatile jump troops with a battle-shock aura 3 of 6
- Tied to the Murdertalon detachment 3 of 6
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raptors115 pts | B | Top 32% | Bottom 49% | 31of 184 |
| Red Corsairs Raiders120 pts | B | Top 30% | Top 26% | 72of 184 |
| Nemesis Claw105 pts | B | Top 5% | Bottom 39% | 4of 184 |
With a leader
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 116 | 137 |
| SHIELD | 306 | 306 |
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 116 | 116 |
| SHIELD | 306 | 306 |
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, in Murdertalon Raiders. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: the army rule 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.
115 pts → kills ~75 pts → 65 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.
~352 pts → 306 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 571 melee units. How we score.
The letter
The average of 8 creators' newest Chaos Space Marines tier lists: M.S.G. (CSM tier list, 25 Oct) (25 Oct), Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (dataslate review, Detachment Focus, Competitive Innovations: 4 post-dataslate lists) (28 Oct), Auspex Tactics (meta watch of 30 lists, first month of 11th) (14 Jul), Boltgun Tactics (dataslate review and London GT recap; his own lists, inferred) (6 Oct), Exalted40k (every CSM list at the WTC, counted; post-dataslate list writing) (6 Oct), 40K Dirtbags (Chaos Cults list, 3-0 and 1st of 30 at an RTT) (19 Oct), 6 Plus Plus Gaming (interview with Theo Hayat, 5-0 at Birmingham) (14 Jul), 1d6chan (community 11th-edition tactics wiki, much text carried over from 10th) (30 Oct). Questions? Get in touch.
Lists
184 public Chaos Space Marines tournament lists, September – November 2026, from grimstat-corpus (CC BY 4.0). Also from Listhammer, MiniHeadQuarters, ChampionsHub. Questions about a list or an event? Get in touch. Numbers run 4 Nov.