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Thunderhawk Gunship

Transport · 850 pts

Why it's takenTaken for what the dice don't measure

Lists– (one list or none, September – November 2026)

SimulateThunderhawk Gunship against any unit, in the calculator

SWORD: what Thunderhawk Gunship kills

Damage for its points

21pts killed
per 100 pts spent

Its 850 pts kill ~179 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100

Best against heavy vehicles and monsters, weakest against hordes

Into each enemy type

Everything21bottom 4%

Hordes18bottom 2%

Line inf.21bottom 2%

Heavy inf.26bottom 8%

Light veh.27bottom 11%

Heavy veh. ★35bottom 32%

Units near it by SWORD

In Space Marines

Ancient in Terminator Armour23

Apothecary21

Thunderhawk Gunship21

Ancient18

Bladeguard Ancient18

Across the game· shooters

Wave Serpent Aeldari · just ahead22

Thunderhawk Gunship 21

Manticore Astra Militarum · level with it21

SHIELD: how hard Thunderhawk Gunship is to kill for its points

Toughness for its points

157pts to kill it
per 100 pts spent

Its 850 pts take ~1335 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100

For its points157bottom 3%

Units near it by SHIELD

In Space Marines

Chaplain with Jump Pack217

Librarian in Phobos Armour215

Talonstrike Kill Team214

Desolation Squad211

Thunderhawk Gunship157

Across the game· shooters

Cadre Fireblade T'au Empire · just ahead158

Thunderhawk Gunship 157

Inquisitor Draxus Agents of the Imperium · level with it157

Compare

Unit	Letter	SWORD	SHIELD	Lists
Thunderhawk Gunship850 pts	D	Bottom 4%	Bottom 3%	1of 1078
Repulsor Executioner260 pts	B	Top 39%	Bottom 25%	83of 1078
Land Raider245 pts	B	Top 42%	Top 40%	30of 1078

How we got these numbers

What we ran

Thunderhawk Gunship, 850 pts, with 1 Armoured hull, 2 Lascannon, 1 Turbo-laser destructor, 4 Twin heavy bolter, in Ironstorm Spearhead. 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.

850 pts → kills ~179 pts → 21 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.

~1335 pts → 157 per 100

Top and bottom %

Where each number ranks among the game's 403 shooters. 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.