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Drop Pod

Transport · 60 pts

Why it's takenIn 6 of 1078 public listsThe 72nd most-taken Space Marines unit

Lists1% · in 6 of 1078 public lists, September – November 2026

SimulateDrop Pod against any unit, in the calculator

SWORD: what Drop Pod kills

Damage for its points

0pts killed
per 100 pts spent

Its 60 pts kill ~0 pts in one activation.Typical unit: 47 per 100

Best against hordes, weakest against hordes

Into each enemy type

Everything0bottom 1%

Hordes ★0bottom 1%

Line inf.0bottom 1%

Heavy inf.0bottom 1%

Light veh.0bottom 1%

Heavy veh.0bottom 1%

Units near it by SWORD

In Space Marines

Ancient18

Bladeguard Ancient18

Rhino16

Apothecary Biologis14

Drop Pod0

Across the game· units

Memnyr Strategist Leagues of Votann · just ahead3

Drop Pod 0

Aegis Defence Line Astra Militarum · level with it0

SHIELD: how hard Drop Pod is to kill for its points

Toughness for its points

458pts to kill it
per 100 pts spent

Its 60 pts take ~275 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical unit: 305 per 100

For its points458top 9%

Units near it by SHIELD

In Space Marines

Rhino517

Outrider Squad458

Drop Pod458

Company Heroes409

Invader ATVs395

Across the game· units

Iron Father Feirros Iron Hands · just ahead461

Drop Pod 458

Flamers Chaos Daemons · level with it458

What creators say

6 creators

Not in any undefeated list 1 of 6

Compare

Unit	Letter	SWORD	SHIELD	Lists
Drop Pod60 pts	D	Bottom 1%	Top 9%	6of 1078
Rhino70 pts	B	Bottom 5%	Top 5%	31of 1078
Impulsor70 pts	S	Top 42%	Top 3%	316of 1078

How we got these numbers

What we ran

Drop Pod, 60 pts, with its datasheet's weapons. 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.

60 pts → kills ~0 pts → 0 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.

~275 pts → 458 per 100

Top and bottom %

Where each number ranks among the game's 930 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.