Reiver Squad
SWORD: what Reiver Squad kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 85 pts kill ~48 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Space Marines
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Reiver Squad is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 85 pts take ~269 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
In Space Marines
Across the game· melee units
What reviewers say
8 reviewers- Give the Impulsor a free early move 1 of 8
- Do actions or charge, then hop back in 1 of 8
- All-round great now 1 of 8
- Superb with the Phobos Captain 1 of 8
- Behind the Incursors, aimed at melee armies 1 of 8
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reiver Squad85 pts | A | Top 47% | Top 46% | 136of 817 |
| Incursor Squad90 pts | A | Bottom 47% | Bottom 46% | 211of 817 |
| Assault Intercessors with Jump Packs95 pts | B | Top 17% | Top 49% | 121of 817 |
With a leader
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 121 | 129 |
| SHIELD | 316 | 316 |
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 121 | 121 |
| SHIELD | 316 | 316 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Reiver Squad, 5 models, 85 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, in Phobos Shock Force. 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.
85 pts → kills ~48 pts → 57 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.
~269 pts → 316 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 566 melee 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.