Redemptor Dreadnought
SWORD: what Redemptor Dreadnought kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 170 pts kill ~129 pts in one activation.Typical unit: 48 per 100
Best against heavy vehicles and monsters, weakest against line infantry
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Space Marines
Across the game· units
SHIELD: how hard Redemptor Dreadnought is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 170 pts take ~577 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical unit: 306 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· units
What reviewers say
7 reviewers- Used in Iron Hands lists 1 of 7
- Not in any undefeated list 1 of 7
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Redemptor Dreadnought170 pts | B | Top 11% | Top 36% | 61of 817 |
| Invictor Tactical Warsuit135 pts | C | Top 22% | Bottom 47% | 13of 817 |
| Gladiator Reaper165 pts | C | Bottom 48% | Bottom 37% | 6of 817 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Redemptor Dreadnought, 170 pts, with 1 Fragstorm Grenade Launchers, 1 Icarus Rocket Pod, 1 Onslaught gatling cannon, 1 Redemptor Fist, 1 Macro Plasma Incinerator - Standard, 1 Macro Plasma Incinerator - Supercharge, in Ironclad Champions. 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.
170 pts → kills ~129 pts → 76 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.
~577 pts → 339 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 930 units. 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.