Gretchin

Infantry · 10 models, 45 pts

Why it's takenIn 347 of 358 public listsThe most-taken Orks unit · Top 3% for objective control per point · Role: The objective tax

Lists97% · in 347 of 358 public lists, September – November 2026

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SWORD: what Gretchin kills

Damage for its points

19pts killed
per 100 pts spent

Its 45 pts kill ~9 pts in one activation.Typical unit: 47 per 100

Best against hordes, weakest against light vehicles and monsters

Into each enemy type

Everything19bottom 6%

Hordes ★49bottom 45%

Line inf.31bottom 13%

Heavy inf.20bottom 6%

Light veh.11bottom 3%

Heavy veh.13bottom 6%

Units near it by SWORD

In Orks

Mek24

Battlewagon19

Gretchin19

Dakkajet18

Trukk13

Across the game· units

Convergence of Dominion Necrons · just ahead20

Gretchin 19

Ynnari Raider Aeldari · level with it19

SHIELD: how hard Gretchin is to kill for its points

Toughness for its points

544pts to kill it
per 100 pts spent

Its 45 pts take ~245 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical unit: 305 per 100

For its points544top 4%

Units near it by SHIELD

In Orks

Gunwagon554

Warbuggies554

Bannernob547

Gretchin544

Battlewagon540

Across the game· units

Lokhust Lord Necrons · just ahead545

Gretchin 544

What reviewers say

8 reviewers

In every winning list as objective holders 8 of 8
Too many cheap bodies to clear at once 3 of 8
Screen deep strikers and do actions 3 of 8
Take hits for Boyz in Runt Swarm 2 of 8

Compare

Unit	Letter	SWORD	SHIELD	Lists
Gretchin45 pts	S	Bottom 6%	Top 4%	347of 358
Stormboyz70 pts	B	Bottom 38%	Top 8%	44of 358
Nobz115 pts	B	Top 27%	Top 10%	41of 358

With a leader

Led by Zodgrod WortsnaggaSWORD into its best target

	Solo	Led
SWORD	49	103
SHIELD	544	544

Led by RuntherdSWORD into its best target

	Solo	Led
SWORD	49	49
SHIELD	544	544

Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.

How we got these numbers

What we ran

Gretchin, 10 models, 45 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, in Green Tide. 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.

45 pts → kills ~9 pts → 19 per 100

SHIELD

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.

~245 pts → 544 per 100

Top and bottom %

Where each number ranks among the game's 930 units. How we score.

The letter

The average of 9 reviewers' 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). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.

Lists

358 public Orks 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.