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Captain with Jump Pack

Character · 90 pts
Why it's takenIn 82 of 817 public listsThe 26th most-taken Space Marines unit
Lists10% · in 82 of 817 public lists, September – November 2026
SimulateCaptain with Jump Pack against any unit, in the calculator

SWORD: what Captain with Jump Pack kills

Damage for its points

42pts killed
per 100 pts spent

Its 90 pts kill ~38 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100

Best against heavy infantry, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters

Into each enemy type

Everything42bottom 23%
Hordes50bottom 38%
Line inf.46bottom 21%
Heavy inf. ★54bottom 35%
Light veh.45bottom 25%
Heavy veh.40bottom 25%
Units near it by SWORD

Across the game· melee units

Chaplain on Bike Space Marines · just ahead43
Captain with Jump Pack 42
Spectrus Kill Team Space Marines · level with it42

SHIELD: how hard Captain with Jump Pack is to kill for its points

Toughness for its points

238pts to kill it
per 100 pts spent

Its 90 pts take ~214 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100

For its points238bottom 18%
Units near it by SHIELD

In Space Marines

Captain with Jump Pack238

Across the game· melee units

Questoris Knight Magaera Imperial Knights · just ahead239
Captain with Jump Pack 238
Defiler Chaos Space Marines · level with it238

What reviewers say

7 reviewers
  • Carries the best enhancement for Sanguinary Guard 2 of 7
  • No jump unit worth leading 2 of 7
  • Not worth a slot just for doctrines 1 of 7

Compare

UnitLetterSWORDSHIELDLists
Captain with Jump Pack90 ptsBBottom 23%Bottom 18%82of 817
Captain90 ptsCBottom 14%Bottom 18%32of 817
Captain in Gravis Armour90 ptsBBottom 29%Top 20%70of 817

Leading a squad

Leading Assault Intercessors with Jump Packs185 pts together
SoloLeading
SWORD4256
SHIELD238238
Leading Vanguard Veteran Squad with Jump Packs200 pts together
SoloLeading
SWORD4243
SHIELD238220

Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.

How we got these numbers

What we ran

Captain with Jump Pack, 90 pts, with 1 Thunder Hammer. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras.

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 ~38 pts → 42 per 100

SHIELD

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.

~214 pts → 238 per 100

Top 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.