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Castellan Crowe

Epic Hero · 105 pts
Why it's takenIn 54 of 81 public listsThe 5th most-taken Grey Knights unit · Role: What Warpbane's re-rolls carry
Lists67% · in 54 of 81 public lists, September – November 2026
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SWORD: what Castellan Crowe kills

Damage for its points

53pts killed
per 100 pts spent

Its 105 pts kill ~56 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100

Best against line infantry, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters

Into each enemy type

Everything53bottom 47%
Hordes60top 47%
Line inf. ★66top 49%
Heavy inf.58bottom 43%
Light veh.46bottom 28%
Heavy veh.41bottom 28%
Units near it by SWORD

Across the game· melee units

Incursor Squad Space Marines · just ahead54
Castellan Crowe 53
Logan Grimnar Space Wolves · level with it53

SHIELD: how hard Castellan Crowe is to kill for its points

Toughness for its points

230pts to kill it
per 100 pts spent

Its 105 pts take ~242 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100

For its points230bottom 15%
Units near it by SHIELD

Across the game· melee units

Watch Master Space Marines · just ahead231
Castellan Crowe 230

What reviewers say

6 reviewers
  • Leads a big Purifier brick 5 of 6
  • Well-rounded hero with extra flame attacks 1 of 6
  • Fragile, dies to a stiff breeze 1 of 6
  • Dropped by some players as unneeded 1 of 6
  • Skipped in a winning list 1 of 6

Compare

UnitLetterSWORDSHIELDLists
Castellan Crowe105 ptsABottom 47%Bottom 15%54of 81
Grand Master Voldus130 ptsBTop 8%Bottom 24%5of 81
Brother-Captain100 ptsCBottom 29%Bottom 37%5of 81

Leading a squad

Leading Purifier Squad395 pts together
SoloLeading
SWORD5344
SHIELD230202

Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.

How we got these numbers

What we ran

Castellan Crowe, 105 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, in Brotherhood Strike. 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.

105 pts → kills ~56 pts → 53 per 100

SHIELD

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.

~242 pts → 230 per 100

Top and bottom %

Where each number ranks among the game's 572 melee units. 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.