Ghazghkull Thraka
SWORD: what Ghazghkull Thraka kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 290 pts kill ~157 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against heavy vehicles and monsters, weakest against hordes
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Ghazghkull Thraka is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 290 pts take ~978 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
8 creators- Force multiplier for the melee around him 5 of 8
- Cheaper after the update, so back in lists 2 of 8
- Fits melee and wagon lists alike 2 of 8
- Escorted by a Grot shield in Runt Swarm 2 of 8
- Gets bogged down by chaff 1 of 8
- Less damage than before 2 of 8
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ghazghkull Thraka290 pts | S | Bottom 48% | Top 37% | 191of 432 |
| Wazdakka Gutsmek200 pts | B | Top 43% | Top 37% | 112of 432 |
| Mozrog Skragbad170 pts | B | Top 24% | Top 5% | 115of 432 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Ghazghkull Thraka, 290 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, in Ramship Raiders. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: its own abilities, 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.
290 pts → kills ~157 pts → 54 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.
~978 pts → 337 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 572 melee units. 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.