Heavy Intercessor Squad
SWORD: what Heavy Intercessor Squad kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 115 pts kill ~41 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· shooters
SHIELD: how hard Heavy Intercessor Squad is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 115 pts take ~662 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· shooters
What creators say
7 creators- A tough objective holder 3 of 7
- Very hard to kill for the cost 2 of 7
- Doubles as a screen 1 of 7
- Only for some missions 1 of 7
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heavy Intercessor Squad115 pts | B | Bottom 28% | Top 2% | 84of 1078 |
| Decimus Kill Team110 pts | A | Top 4% | Top 35% | 15of 1078 |
| Deathwatch Veterans115 pts | A | Top 1% | Bottom 24% | 22of 1078 |
With a leader
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 65 | 73 |
| SHIELD | 576 | 576 |
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 65 | 65 |
| SHIELD | 576 | 720 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Heavy Intercessor Squad, 5 models, 115 pts, with 5 Bolt pistol, 5 Ceramite Fists, 4 Heavy Bolt Rifle, 1 Heavy Bolter, 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.
115 pts → kills ~41 pts → 36 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.
~662 pts → 576 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 403 shooters. 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.