Ancient in Terminator Armour
SWORD: what Ancient in Terminator Armour kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 75 pts kill ~17 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against line infantry, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Ancient in Terminator Armour is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 75 pts take ~292 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
7 creators- Makes a Terminator brick very hard to wound 3 of 7
- The one real Terminator support character 2 of 7
- The most taken Terminator leader 1 of 7
- A cheap support slot 1 of 7
- Not in any undefeated list 1 of 7
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ancient in Terminator Armour75 pts | A | Bottom 2% | Top 20% | 213of 1078 |
| Captain in Phobos Armour75 pts | B | Bottom 5% | Bottom 27% | 31of 1078 |
| Chaplain in Terminator Armour75 pts | B | Bottom 17% | Top 28% | 78of 1078 |
Leading a squad
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 23 | 59 |
| SHIELD | 389 | 335 |
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 23 | 43 |
| SHIELD | 389 | 391 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Ancient in Terminator Armour, 75 pts, with its datasheet's weapons. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: its own abilities.
SWORD
Enemy points it kills in one activation, per 100 pts of its own, against a mix of targets weighted like top tournament lists.
75 pts → kills ~17 pts → 23 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.
~292 pts → 389 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 566 melee units. How we score.
The letter
The average of 8 creators' newest Space Marines tier lists: Brother Tobias (Ultramarines tier list livestream, after the codex) (14 Oct), Auspex Tactics (codex unit tier list) (16 Oct), Art of War 40k (ranking every datasheet, two hosts) (20 Oct), TacticalRock40K (four post-codex boards: ranged infantry, combat infantry, vehicles, characters) (21 Oct), TacticalTortoise (The Best Armies in 40k, three weekly meta watches: 14 undefeated Space Marine lists) (26 Oct), Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (Competitive Innovations, two weeks of event write-ups) (28 Oct), Grimdark Breakdown (five videos grading the leaked codex, before points) (19 Sep), BA Commander (what he likes in the codex, before points; a Blood Angels player) (2 Oct). Questions? Get in touch.
Lists
61 public Space Marines 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 6 Nov.