Venom
SWORD: what Venom kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 65 pts kill ~26 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100
Best against line infantry, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· shooters
SHIELD: how hard Venom is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 65 pts take ~185 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· shooters
What reviewers say
4 reviewers- Splits big units into scoring squads 3 of 4
- Picks units up after the fight 2 of 4
- Carries Malys and Incubi 1 of 4
- Better guns than before 1 of 4
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venom65 pts | S | Bottom 38% | Bottom 43% | 57of 57 |
| Raider75 pts | A | Bottom 28% | Top 15% | 48of 57 |
| Starweaver70 pts | C | Bottom 32% | Top 29% | 0of 57 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Venom, 65 pts, with 1 Bladevanes, 2 Splinter Cannon, in Reaper's Wager. 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.
65 pts → kills ~26 pts → 40 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.
~185 pts → 285 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 407 shooters. How we score.
The letter
The average of 6 reviewers' newest Drukhari tier lists: SkaredCast (two tournament reviews, 23 Sep and 21 Oct) (21 Oct), Deploy on the Line 40K (tier list 7 Jul, Space Marine book video 23 Sep, dataslate 30 Sep) (30 Sep), BreakingHeads (podcast with Team Germany's Pau and guest Skari) (5 Sep), Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (dataslate review, Competitive Innovations: 1 full list and 5 summaries) (30 Oct), Proxy Hammer (detachment review after the dataslate) (5 Oct), 1d6chan (community 11th-edition tactics wiki, much text carried over from 10th) (29 Jul). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.
Lists
57 public Drukhari 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.