Land Speeder Vengeance
SWORD: what Land Speeder Vengeance kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 150 pts kill ~69 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100
Best against heavy infantry, weakest against hordes
Into each enemy type
SHIELD: how hard Land Speeder Vengeance is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 150 pts take ~423 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· shooters
What creators say
7 creators- Fast, consistent plasma firepower 6 of 7
- Staple: two or three per list 4 of 7
- Much tougher than before 4 of 7
- Best in Darkflight Pursuit 3 of 7
- Its retaliation only works for Dark Angels 2 of 7
- Points went up 1 of 7
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Land Speeder Vengeance150 pts | A | Top 45% | Bottom 42% | 175of 323 |
| Ravenwing Dark Talon190 pts | C | Top 30% | Bottom 32% | 1of 323 |
| Nephilim Jetfighter200 pts | C | Bottom 24% | Top 48% | 22of 323 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Land Speeder Vengeance, 150 pts, with 1 Armoured Hull, 1 Heavy Bolter, 1 Plasma storm battery - standard, 1 Plasma storm battery - supercharge, in Ironstorm Spearhead. 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.
150 pts → kills ~69 pts → 46 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.
~423 pts → 282 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 403 shooters. How we score.
The letter
The average of 7 creators' newest Dark Angels tier lists: Black Crow Gaming (Lion's Den Dark Angels unit tier list, a DA GT player and his Death Guard opponent) (22 Oct), TacticalRock40K (epic heroes after the codex, 24 Oct; the Dark Angels board of 28 Jun for the other units) (24 Oct), Battleborn 40k (a Dark Angels tournament player on the new points, and three lists from one core) (27 Oct), Auspex Tactics (Dark Angels full rules review after the update, with three 3-0 lists) (5 Oct), TacticalTortoise (The Best Armies in 40k: the two undefeated Dark Angels GT lists, 12 and 19 Oct) (19 Oct), Art of War 40k (new Dark Angels units and detachments, preview points) (19 Sep), Grimdark Breakdown (the leaked Dark Angels rules, guessed points) (21 Sep). Questions? Get in touch.
Lists
323 public Dark Angels 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 6 Nov.