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Hellblaster Squad

Infantry · 5 models, 115 pts

Lists3% · in 32 of 1078 public lists, September – November 2026

SimulateHellblaster Squad against any unit, in the calculator

SWORD: what Hellblaster Squad kills

Damage for its points

46pts killed
per 100 pts spent

Its 115 pts kill ~53 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100

Best against line infantry, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters

Into each enemy type

Everything46top 45%

Hordes61top 41%

Line inf. ★64top 34%

Heavy inf.49top 46%

Light veh.44bottom 41%

Heavy veh.33bottom 28%

Units near it by SWORD

In Space Marines

Bladeguard Veteran Squad47

Corvus Blackstar47

Impulsor47

Hellblaster Squad46

Captain in Gravis Armour45

Across the game· shooters

Impulsor Space Marines · just ahead47

Hellblaster Squad 46

Chaos Questoris Knight Styrix Chaos Knights · level with it46

SHIELD: how hard Hellblaster Squad is to kill for its points

Toughness for its points

257pts to kill it
per 100 pts spent

Its 115 pts take ~295 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100

For its points257bottom 27%

Units near it by SHIELD

In Space Marines

Watch Captain Artemis264

Captain in Phobos Armour261

Lieutenant with Combi-weapon261

Deathwatch Veterans257

Hellblaster Squad257

Across the game· shooters

Ares Gunship Adeptus Custodes · just ahead258

Hellblaster Squad 257

Seraphim Squad Adepta Sororitas · level with it257

What creators say

6 creators

The army doesn't need what they do 1 of 6
Not in any undefeated list 1 of 6

Compare

Unit	Letter	SWORD	SHIELD	Lists
Hellblaster Squad115 pts	C	Top 45%	Bottom 27%	32of 1078
Eradicator Squad with Heavy Bolters100 pts	B	Bottom 45%	Top 27%	69of 1078
Eradicator Squad with Melta Rifles100 pts	A	Top 1%	Top 42%	380of 1078

With a leader

Led by LieutenantSWORD into its best target

	Solo	Led
SWORD	64	71
SHIELD	257	257

Led by ChaplainSWORD into its best target

	Solo	Led
SWORD	64	69
SHIELD	257	257

Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.

How we got these numbers

What we ran

Hellblaster Squad, 5 models, 115 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.

115 pts → kills ~53 pts → 46 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.

~295 pts → 257 per 100

Top 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.