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Intercessor Squad

Battleline · 10 models, 170 pts

Why it's takenTop 7% for objective control per pointOC 11.8 per 100 pts · In 312 of 1078 public lists

Lists29% · in 312 of 1078 public lists, September – November 2026

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SWORD: what Intercessor Squad kills

Damage for its points

38pts killed
per 100 pts spent

Its 170 pts kill ~65 pts in one activation.Typical unit: 48 per 100

Best against hordes, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters

Into each enemy type

Everything38bottom 28%

Hordes ★74top 27%

Line inf.64top 41%

Heavy inf.40bottom 26%

Light veh.36bottom 24%

Heavy veh.27bottom 17%

Units near it by SWORD

In Space Marines

Chaplain in Terminator Armour39

Chaplain with Jump Pack39

Terminator Squad39

Captain38

Intercessor Squad38

Across the game· units

Chaplain with Jump Pack Space Marines · just ahead39

Intercessor Squad 38

Captain Space Marines · level with it38

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

Toughness for its points

298pts to kill it
per 100 pts spent

Its 170 pts take ~506 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical unit: 306 per 100

For its points298bottom 46%

Units near it by SHIELD

In Space Marines

Apothecary300

Incursor Squad299

Invictor Tactical Warsuit299

Intercessor Squad298

Terminator Squad297

Across the game· units

Obliterators Chaos Space Marines · just ahead299

Intercessor Squad 298

Exalted Flamer Chaos Daemons · level with it298

What creators say

7 creators

Backline objective control and some shooting 1 of 7
Might actually be good now 1 of 7

No longer holds objectives well 1 of 7
The worst of the basic squads for the points 1 of 7

Compare

Unit	Letter	SWORD	SHIELD	Lists
Intercessor Squad170 pts	B	Bottom 28%	Bottom 46%	312of 1078
Deathwatch Veterans115 pts	A	Top 1%	Bottom 24%	22of 1078
Heavy Intercessor Squad115 pts	B	Bottom 28%	Top 2%	84of 1078

With a leader

Led by ChaplainSWORD into its best target

	Solo	Led
SWORD	81	87
SHIELD	298	298

Led by LieutenantSWORD into its best target

	Solo	Led
SWORD	81	86
SHIELD	298	298

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

How we got these numbers

What we ran

Intercessor Squad, 10 models, 170 pts, with 10 Bolt pistol, 9 Knives and Fists, 1 Power fist, 10 Bolt Rifle - Focused Fire, 10 Bolt Rifle - Saturation. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: its own abilities.

SWORD

Enemy points it kills in one activation, per 100 pts of its own, against a mix of targets weighted like top tournament lists.

170 pts → kills ~65 pts → 38 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.

~506 pts → 298 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.