Captain in Phobos Armour
SWORD: what Captain in Phobos Armour kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 75 pts kill ~22 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Captain in Phobos Armour is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 75 pts take ~196 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- The craziest Reiver combo, with huge reach 2 of 7
- Heavy precision damage with the right enhancement 1 of 7
- Poor units to lead 1 of 7
- Only leads Phobos, and the trick got dear 1 of 7
- Not in any undefeated list 1 of 7
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Captain in Phobos Armour75 pts | B | Bottom 5% | Bottom 27% | 24of 817 |
| Ancient in Terminator Armour75 pts | A | Bottom 2% | Top 20% | 155of 817 |
| Chaplain in Terminator Armour75 pts | B | Bottom 17% | Top 28% | 56of 817 |
Leading a squad
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 29 | 40 |
| SHIELD | 261 | 250 |
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 29 | 38 |
| SHIELD | 261 | 254 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Captain in Phobos Armour, 75 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, in Phobos Shock Force. 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.
75 pts → kills ~22 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.
~196 pts → 261 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.