Ravenwing Dark Talon
SWORD: what Ravenwing Dark Talon kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 190 pts kill ~99 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100
Best against heavy vehicles and monsters, weakest against hordes
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· shooters
SHIELD: how hard Ravenwing Dark Talon is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 190 pts take ~502 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· shooters
What reviewers say
7 reviewers- Cheaper, with better guns 2 of 7
- Bomb punishes units that move 1 of 7
- Not worth running 3 of 7
- Bomb lands late, so the foe plans around it 2 of 7
- Disappointing gun for the price 2 of 7
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ravenwing Dark Talon190 pts | C | Top 30% | Bottom 32% | 1of 254 |
| Nephilim Jetfighter200 pts | C | Bottom 24% | Top 48% | 19of 254 |
| Land Speeder Vengeance150 pts | A | Top 45% | Bottom 42% | 148of 254 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Ravenwing Dark Talon, 190 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, 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.
190 pts → kills ~99 pts → 52 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.
~502 pts → 264 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 403 shooters. How we score.
The letter
The average of 7 reviewers' 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). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.
Lists
254 public Dark 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.