Vanguard Veteran Squad with Jump Packs
SWORD: what Vanguard Veteran Squad with Jump Packs kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 110 pts kill ~54 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against line infantry, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Vanguard Veteran Squad with Jump Packs is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 110 pts take ~295 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· melee units
What creators say
8 creators- Nice independent skirmishers 1 of 8
- Too dear for what they hit 2 of 8
- Jump infantry doesn't hit hard enough 1 of 8
- Only one undefeated list took them 1 of 8
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vanguard Veteran Squad with Jump Packs110 pts | B | Bottom 38% | Bottom 30% | 80of 1078 |
| Assault Intercessors with Jump Packs95 pts | B | Top 17% | Top 49% | 170of 1078 |
| Incursor Squad90 pts | A | Bottom 47% | Bottom 46% | 269of 1078 |
With a leader
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 93 | 135 |
| SHIELD | 268 | 268 |
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 93 | 93 |
| SHIELD | 268 | 268 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Vanguard Veteran Squad with Jump Packs, 5 models, 110 pts, with its datasheet's weapons. 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.
110 pts → kills ~54 pts → 49 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.
~295 pts → 268 per 100Top 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.