Big Mek in Mega Armour
SWORD: what Big Mek in Mega Armour kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 90 pts kill ~66 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100
Best against heavy infantry, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· shooters
SHIELD: how hard Big Mek in Mega Armour is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 90 pts take ~250 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· shooters
What creators say
6 creators- Deep-striking shooter with anti-infantry punch 3 of 6
- Makes Meganobz tougher against shooting 1 of 6
- Weakest of the Big Meks for some 1 of 6
- Rare in winning lists 1 of 6
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Mek in Mega Armour90 pts | B | Top 7% | Bottom 39% | 56of 432 |
| Big Mek with Shokk Attack Gun110 pts | A | Bottom 28% | Bottom 9% | 164of 432 |
| Weirdboy60 pts | C | Top 45% | Bottom 31% | 18of 432 |
Leading a squad
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 73 | 60 |
| SHIELD | 278 | 464 |
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 73 | 74 |
| SHIELD | 278 | 363 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Big Mek in Mega Armour, 90 pts, with 1 Kustom Mega-blasta, 1 Power Klaw, 1 Tellyport Blasta, in Madcap Meks (Unpredictable Genius: 4: +1 to hit). On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: the army rule 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.
90 pts → kills ~66 pts → 73 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.
~250 pts → 278 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 407 shooters. How we score.
The letter
The average of 9 creators' newest Orks tier lists: Auspex Tactics (meta watch: unit play rates in 25 winning lists) (24 Oct), WAAAGH Taktiks (dataslate review and meta watch of three 6-0/4-1 lists) (20 Oct), Highstakes 40K (Damian Cooper, a winning Ork player: dataslate review) (1 Oct), 40K Dirtbags (Derek, a top US Ork player: dataslate review and list idea) (4 Oct), Astrategas Wargames (Spanish datasheet tier list, two hosts) (14 Oct), Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (Competitive Innovations: 7 full lists and 28 summaries) (30 Oct), Art of War 40k (codex datasheet tier list) (1 Sep), Secondary Objective (codex tier list) (9 Sep), 1d6chan (community 11th-edition tactics wiki) (30 Oct). Questions? Get in touch.
Lists
432 public Orks 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.