Valkyrie
SWORD: what Valkyrie kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 170 pts kill ~32 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· shooters
SHIELD: how hard Valkyrie is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 170 pts take ~625 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valkyrie170 pts | B | Bottom 4% | Top 24% | 0of 55 |
| Chimera75 pts | A | Bottom 25% | Top 4% | 1of 55 |
| Goliath Truck75 pts | B | Top 45% | Top 7% | 24of 55 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Valkyrie, 170 pts, with 1 Armoured hull, 2 Heavy bolter, 1 Multi-laser, 2 Multiple rocket pod, 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.
170 pts → kills ~32 pts → 19 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.
~625 pts → 368 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.