Astraeus
SWORD: what Astraeus kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 550 pts kill ~160 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
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Across the game· shooters
SHIELD: how hard Astraeus is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 550 pts take ~1219 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· shooters
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Astraeus550 pts | C | Bottom 15% | Bottom 16% | 1of 1078 |
| Gladiator Reaper165 pts | C | Bottom 48% | Bottom 37% | 6of 1078 |
| Gladiator Valiant165 pts | B | Top 21% | Bottom 37% | 19of 1078 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Astraeus, 550 pts, with 1 Armoured Hull, 2 Astraeus las-ripper, 1 Ironhail Heavy Stubber, 1 Storm bolter, 1 Twin lascannon, 1 Twin macro-accelerator cannon, in Ironstorm Spearhead. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: its own abilities 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.
550 pts → kills ~160 pts → 29 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.
~1219 pts → 222 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 403 shooters. 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.