Brutalis Dreadnought
SWORD: what Brutalis Dreadnought kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 160 pts kill ~133 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against heavy vehicles and monsters, weakest against hordes
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Space Marines
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Brutalis Dreadnought is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 160 pts take ~552 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
In Space Marines
Across the game· melee units
What reviewers say
7 reviewers- With fists, just good now 1 of 7
- The best Dreadnought 1 of 7
- A good counterpunch 1 of 7
- Only one detachment buffs it 1 of 7
- Needs more testing 1 of 7
- Only one undefeated list took it 1 of 7
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brutalis Dreadnought160 pts | B | Top 12% | Top 33% | 45of 817 |
| Gladiator Lancer160 pts | C | Bottom 20% | Bottom 40% | 40of 817 |
| Gladiator Reaper165 pts | C | Bottom 48% | Bottom 37% | 6of 817 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Brutalis Dreadnought, 160 pts, with 1 Bolt Rifles, 1 Brutalis Fists, 1 Twin Icarus ironhail heavy stubber, 1 Twin multi-melta, in Ironclad Champions. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: 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 ~133 pts → 83 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 → 345 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 566 melee units. How we score.
The letter
The average of 8 reviewers' 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). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.
Lists
53 public Space Marines 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 6 Nov.