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Grand Master

Character · 100 pts

Lists22% · in 22 of 102 public lists, September – November 2026

SimulateGrand Master against any unit, in the calculator

SWORD: what Grand Master kills

Damage for its points

44pts killed
per 100 pts spent

Its 100 pts kill ~44 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100

Best against line infantry, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters

Into each enemy type

Everything44bottom 27%

Hordes54bottom 44%

Line inf. ★56bottom 35%

Heavy inf.43bottom 17%

Light veh.37bottom 15%

Heavy veh.33bottom 16%

Units near it by SWORD

In Grey Knights

Brother-Captain45

Land Raider44

Land Raider Redeemer44

Grand Master44

Stormhawk Interceptor43

Across the game· melee units

Dark Commune Chaos Space Marines · just ahead45

Grand Master 44

Fateskimmer Chaos Daemons · level with it44

SHIELD: how hard Grand Master is to kill for its points

Toughness for its points

336pts to kill it
per 100 pts spent

Its 100 pts take ~336 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100

For its points336top 37%

Units near it by SHIELD

In Grey Knights

Land Raider360

Land Raider Crusader360

Brotherhood Terminator Squad357

Grand Master336

Purgation Squad327

Across the game· melee units

Aggressor Squad Space Marines · just ahead337

Grand Master 336

Fiends Chaos Daemons · level with it336

What creators say

5 creators

Leads Terminators and Paladin bricks 4 of 5
Free psycannon and charge bonus 1 of 5
Annoying solo harasser 1 of 5

Rare in winning lists 1 of 5

Compare

Unit	Letter	SWORD	SHIELD	Lists
Grand Master100 pts	B	Bottom 27%	Top 37%	22of 102
Brother-Captain100 pts	C	Bottom 29%	Bottom 37%	8of 102
Brotherhood Techmarine75 pts	C	Bottom 45%	Bottom 17%	5of 102

Leading a squad

Leading Brotherhood Terminator Squad250 pts together

	Solo	Leading
SWORD	44	50
SHIELD	336	305

Leading Paladin Squad285 pts together

	Solo	Leading
SWORD	44	53
SHIELD	336	267

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

How we got these numbers

What we ran

Grand Master, 100 pts, with 1 Incinerator, 1 Nemesis force weapon, 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.

100 pts → kills ~44 pts → 44 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.

~336 pts → 336 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 creators' 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). Questions? Get in touch.

Lists

102 public Grey Knights tournament lists, September – November 2026, from grimstat-corpus (CC BY 4.0). Also from Listhammer, MiniHeadQuarters, ChampionsHub. Questions about a list or an event? Get in touch. Numbers run 2 Nov.