Baneblade
SWORD: what Baneblade kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 415 pts kill ~178 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
In Genestealer Cults
Across the game· shooters
SHIELD: how hard Baneblade is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 415 pts take ~1141 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· shooters
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baneblade415 pts | A | Bottom 48% | Bottom 38% | 0of 55 |
| Leman Russ Battle Tank160 pts | S | Top 39% | Top 18% | 1of 55 |
| Hellhound115 pts | S | Bottom 20% | Top 3% | 1of 55 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Baneblade, 415 pts, with 1 Armoured tracks, 1 Baneblade cannon, 1 Coaxial autocannon, 1 Demolisher cannon, 1 Heavy stubber, 4 Lascannon, 1 Twin heavy bolter, 4 Twin heavy flamer, in Host of Ascension. 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.
415 pts → kills ~178 pts → 43 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.
~1141 pts → 275 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 407 shooters. How we score.
The letter
No reviewer has rated it yet: it's our estimate from its numbers.
Lists
55 public Genestealer Cults 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.