Venerable Dreadnought
SWORD: what Venerable Dreadnought kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 130 pts kill ~83 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 Venerable Dreadnought is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 130 pts take ~379 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· melee units
What creators say
2 creators- Marks a target for allies 1 of 2
- Absent from winning lists 1 of 2
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venerable Dreadnought130 pts | D | Top 33% | Bottom 43% | 0of 102 |
| Brother-Captain100 pts | C | Bottom 29% | Bottom 37% | 8of 102 |
| Grand Master100 pts | B | Bottom 27% | Top 37% | 22of 102 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Venerable Dreadnought, 130 pts, with 1 Dreadnought combat weapon, 1 Heavy flamer, 1 Heavy plasma cannon - standard, 1 Heavy plasma cannon - supercharge, 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.
130 pts → kills ~83 pts → 64 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.
~379 pts → 292 per 100Top 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.