Impulsor
SWORD: what Impulsor kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 70 pts kill ~33 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 Impulsor is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 70 pts take ~393 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· shooters
What reviewers say
8 reviewers- Carries melta Eradicators that fire from inside 6 of 8
- The best datasheet in the codex 3 of 8
- In most undefeated lists 2 of 8
- Scouts or Reivers inside give it an early move 1 of 8
- Hard to kill, with a good invulnerable save 1 of 8
- Probably needs a nerf 1 of 8
- Its guns aren't the point: it's all delivery 1 of 8
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Impulsor70 pts | S | Top 42% | Top 3% | 224of 817 |
| Repulsor190 pts | B | Bottom 37% | Top 33% | 25of 817 |
| Rhino70 pts | B | Bottom 5% | Top 5% | 24of 817 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Impulsor, 70 pts, with 1 Armoured Hull, 1 Ironhail Heavy Stubber, 1 Storm Bolters, 1 Bellicatus Missile Array - Frag, 1 Bellicatus Missile Array - Icarus, 1 Bellicatus Missile Array - Krak, in Ironstorm Spearhead. 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.
70 pts → kills ~33 pts → 47 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.
~393 pts → 561 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 403 shooters. 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.