Ballistus Dreadnought
SWORD: what Ballistus Dreadnought kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 150 pts kill ~72 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against heavy infantry
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· shooters
SHIELD: how hard Ballistus Dreadnought is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 150 pts take ~552 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
In Space Marines
Across the game· shooters
What creators say
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Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballistus Dreadnought150 pts | B | Top 39% | Top 24% | 92of 1078 |
| Gladiator Lancer160 pts | C | Bottom 20% | Bottom 40% | 53of 1078 |
| Storm Speeder Hammerstrike140 pts | C | Top 14% | Bottom 40% | 32of 1078 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Ballistus Dreadnought, 150 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, in Ironclad Champions. 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.
150 pts → kills ~72 pts → 48 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.
~552 pts → 368 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.