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Lieutenant

Character · 50 pts

Lists7% · in 80 of 1078 public lists, September – November 2026

SimulateLieutenant against any unit, in the calculator

SWORD: what Lieutenant kills

Damage for its points

59pts killed
per 100 pts spent

Its 50 pts kill ~30 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100

Best against line infantry, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters

Into each enemy type

Everything59top 43%

Hordes58top 50%

Line inf. ★74top 36%

Heavy inf.72top 35%

Light veh.55bottom 43%

Heavy veh.39bottom 24%

Units near it by SWORD

In Space Marines

Gladiator Valiant59

Land Speeder59

Librarian in Phobos Armour59

Lieutenant59

Watch Master58

Across the game· melee units

Khorne Soul Grinder Chaos Daemons · just ahead60

Lieutenant 59

Chaos Lord Chaos Space Marines · level with it59

SHIELD: how hard Lieutenant is to kill for its points

Toughness for its points

270pts to kill it
per 100 pts spent

Its 50 pts take ~135 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100

For its points270bottom 32%

Units near it by SHIELD

In Space Marines

Chaplain273

Gladiator Reaper273

Gladiator Valiant273

Lieutenant270

Vanguard Veteran Squad with Jump Packs268

Across the game· melee units

Knight Desecrator Chaos Knights · just ahead271

Lieutenant 270

Epidemius Chaos Daemons · level with it270

What creators say

6 creators

Needs a Captain to work 1 of 6
His rule rarely works 1 of 6
Not in any undefeated list 1 of 6

Compare

Unit	Letter	SWORD	SHIELD	Lists
Lieutenant50 pts	D	Top 43%	Bottom 32%	80of 1078
Judiciar50 pts	C	Top 27%	Top 40%	8of 1078
Techmarine55 pts	C	Bottom 49%	Top 43%	108of 1078

Leading a squad

Leading Deathwatch Veterans165 pts together

	Solo	Leading
SWORD	59	88
SHIELD	270	232

Leading Decimus Kill Team160 pts together

	Solo	Leading
SWORD	59	67
SHIELD	270	302

Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.

How we got these numbers

What we ran

Lieutenant, 50 pts, with 1 Bolt pistol, 1 Master-crafted bolter, 1 Power fist. 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.

50 pts → kills ~30 pts → 59 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.

~135 pts → 270 per 100

Top and bottom %

Where each number ranks among the game's 566 melee 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.