Captain in Gravis Armour
SWORD: what Captain in Gravis Armour kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 90 pts kill ~41 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
In Space Marines
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Captain in Gravis Armour is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 90 pts take ~350 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
6 creators- A sturdy enhancement carrier 1 of 6
- Gravis units are best left unled 1 of 6
- Not in any undefeated list 1 of 6
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Captain in Gravis Armour90 pts | B | Bottom 29% | Top 20% | 83of 1078 |
| Captain90 pts | C | Bottom 14% | Bottom 18% | 39of 1078 |
| Captain in Terminator Armour90 pts | B | Bottom 24% | Top 47% | 87of 1078 |
Leading a squad
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 45 | 66 |
| SHIELD | 389 | 332 |
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 45 | 58 |
| SHIELD | 389 | 373 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Captain in Gravis Armour, 90 pts, with 1 Boltstorm Gauntlet, 1 Boltstorm Gauntlet (melee), 1 Relic Chainsword, in Gravis Siege Force. 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.
90 pts → kills ~41 pts → 45 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.
~350 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.