Brotherhood Librarian
SWORD: what Brotherhood Librarian kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 95 pts kill ~63 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
In Grey Knights
Across the game· shooters
SHIELD: how hard Brotherhood Librarian is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 95 pts take ~268 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
In Grey Knights
Across the game· shooters
What reviewers say
6 reviewers- Strong support leader with the armour piercing seal 2 of 6
- Lone operative bubble and hiding 2 of 6
- Leads Paladin bricks 2 of 6
- Only a backfill piece in winning lists 2 of 6
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brotherhood Librarian95 pts | B | Top 13% | Bottom 42% | 23of 81 |
| Brother-Captain100 pts | C | Bottom 29% | Bottom 37% | 5of 81 |
| Grand Master100 pts | B | Bottom 27% | Top 37% | 18of 81 |
Leading a squad
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 66 | 54 |
| SHIELD | 282 | 293 |
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 66 | 56 |
| SHIELD | 282 | 256 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Brotherhood Librarian, 95 pts, with 1 Nemesis force weapon, 1 Storm bolter, 1 Vortex of Doom, in Brotherhood Strike. 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.
95 pts → kills ~63 pts → 66 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.
~268 pts → 282 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 407 shooters. How we score.
The letter
The average of 7 reviewers' newest Grey Knights tier lists: Objective Secured40K (five post-slate lists and a state-of-the-army review) (15 Oct), Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (dataslate review; Competitive Innovations: 3 winning lists and 9 summaries after the slate) (24 Oct), Warpbane Tactics (dataslate review and Warpbane Weekly 7 and 8) (23 Oct), 6 Plus Plus Gaming (early 11th-edition review and the six WTC lists) (6 Aug), 40K Dirtbags (points review and two lists built live) (10 Oct), Auspex Tactics (Terminator squads across armies, out of 10) (30 Oct), 1d6chan (community 11th-edition tactics wiki, partly updated for the dataslate) (30 Oct). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.
Lists
81 public Grey Knights 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.