Mek
SWORD: what Mek kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 55 pts kill ~13 pts in one activation.Typical unit: 47 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· units
SHIELD: how hard Mek is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 55 pts take ~160 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical unit: 305 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· units
What reviewers say
7 reviewers- Cheap leader giving cover-ignoring support 5 of 7
- Repairs and buffs a nearby wagon 3 of 7
- Costs more since the update 1 of 7
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mek55 pts | A | Bottom 10% | Bottom 43% | 118of 358 |
| Bannernob30 pts | D | Bottom 38% | Top 3% | 7of 358 |
| Painboss60 pts | C | Bottom 4% | Bottom 34% | 14of 358 |
Leading a squad
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 24 | 70 |
| SHIELD | 291 | 417 |
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 24 | 57 |
| SHIELD | 291 | 348 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Mek, 55 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, in Ramship Raiders. 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.
55 pts → kills ~13 pts → 24 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.
~160 pts → 291 per 100Top 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.