Paladin Squad
SWORD: what Paladin Squad kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 185 pts kill ~131 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against heavy infantry, weakest against hordes
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Grey Knights
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Paladin Squad is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 185 pts take ~536 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
In Grey Knights
Across the game· melee units
What reviewers say
7 reviewers- Hard-to-kill hammer brick 5 of 7
- Hit big targets hard on the charge 4 of 7
- Core of the non-Warpbane lists 4 of 7
- Very expensive after the points rise 5 of 7
- Swingy: losing one early can lose the game 2 of 7
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paladin Squad185 pts | A | Top 23% | Bottom 42% | 31of 81 |
| Interceptor Squad135 pts | A | Top 38% | Bottom 37% | 48of 81 |
| Purifier Squad290 pts | S | Top 46% | Bottom 13% | 67of 81 |
With a leader
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 91 | 103 |
| SHIELD | 290 | 290 |
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 91 | 91 |
| SHIELD | 290 | 290 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Paladin Squad, 4 models, 185 pts, with 4 Nemesis force weapon, 1 Psycannon, 3 Storm bolter, 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.
185 pts → kills ~131 pts → 71 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.
~536 pts → 290 per 100Top 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.