Storm Speeder Thunderstrike
SWORD: what Storm Speeder Thunderstrike kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 140 pts kill ~91 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100
Best against heavy vehicles and monsters, weakest against hordes
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Space Marines
Across the game· shooters
SHIELD: how hard Storm Speeder Thunderstrike is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 140 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
7 reviewers- Tees up kills on priority targets 2 of 7
- In four undefeated lists 1 of 7
- Preferred to the Hammerstrike 1 of 7
- Needs a detachment's help to shine 1 of 7
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Storm Speeder Thunderstrike140 pts | A | Top 14% | Bottom 40% | 207of 817 |
| Storm Speeder Hammerstrike140 pts | C | Top 14% | Bottom 40% | 27of 817 |
| Ballistus Dreadnought150 pts | B | Top 39% | Top 24% | 63of 817 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Storm Speeder Thunderstrike, 140 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, in Ironstorm Spearhead. 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.
140 pts → kills ~91 pts → 65 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 → 281 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.