Tankbustas
SWORD: what Tankbustas kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 160 pts kill ~114 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100
Best against heavy vehicles and monsters, weakest against hordes
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· shooters
SHIELD: how hard Tankbustas is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 160 pts take ~431 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100
What reviewers say
9 reviewers- The army's main anti-tank 9 of 9
- Most played damage dealer in winning lists 4 of 9
- Best fired from a Battlewagon or Trukk 2 of 9
- Down to one or two units after the update 2 of 9
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tankbustas160 pts | A | Top 9% | Bottom 34% | 184of 358 |
| Flash Gitz220 pts | A | Top 25% | Top 19% | 154of 358 |
| Meganobz175 pts | A | Top 21% | Top 1% | 156of 358 |
With a leader
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 101 | 150 |
| SHIELD | 269 | 269 |
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 101 | 150 |
| SHIELD | 269 | 269 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Tankbustas, 6 models, 160 pts, with 1 Choppa, 5 Gitstikka, 1 Rokkit pistol, 5 Busta Rokkit Launcha - Hunter (Hunter: MONSTER/VEHICLE), 5 Busta Rokkit Launcha - Standard, 1 Smash Hammer - Hunter (Hunter: MONSTER/VEHICLE), 1 Smash Hammer - Standard, 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.
160 pts → kills ~114 pts → 71 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.
~431 pts → 269 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 407 shooters. 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.