Gorkanaut
SWORD: what Gorkanaut kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 325 pts kill ~146 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 Gorkanaut is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 325 pts take ~1195 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
5 creators- Far too expensive 3 of 5
- No detachment support 1 of 5
- Weaker than the Morkanaut for its cost 1 of 5
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gorkanaut325 pts | D | Bottom 29% | Top 25% | 6of 432 |
| Gargantuan Squiggoth500 pts | D | Bottom 6% | Top 46% | 3of 432 |
| Kill Rig175 pts | B | Bottom 47% | Top 1% | 44of 432 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Gorkanaut, 325 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.
325 pts → kills ~146 pts → 45 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.
~1195 pts → 368 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.