Bjorn the Fell-Handed
SWORD: what Bjorn the Fell-Handed kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 160 pts kill ~99 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against light vehicles and monsters, weakest against hordes
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Space Wolves
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Bjorn the Fell-Handed is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 160 pts take ~594 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· melee units
What reviewers say
4 reviewers- Very hard to kill objective guard 2 of 4
- Stratagems are cheaper on himself 3 of 4
- No longer the army's command point engine 4 of 4
- Others do his roles better 1 of 4
- Missing from winning lists 1 of 4
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bjorn the Fell-Handed160 pts | B | Top 36% | Top 24% | 40of 83 |
| Logan Grimnar150 pts | S | Bottom 46% | Bottom 16% | 76of 83 |
| Murderfang150 pts | C | Top 11% | Bottom 42% | 2of 83 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Bjorn the Fell-Handed, 160 pts, with 1 Heavy Flamer, 1 Trueclaw, 1 Helfrost cannon - dispersed, 1 Helfrost cannon - focused, 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.
160 pts → kills ~99 pts → 62 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.
~594 pts → 371 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 566 melee units. How we score.
The letter
The average of 6 reviewers' newest Space Wolves tier lists: Art of War 40k (Ranking Every Space Wolves Datasheet, new index) (29 Sep), Almost Functional Gaming (Council of the Fang tier list) (2 Oct), Auspex Tactics (Space Wolves full rules review and winning lists) (6 Oct), My Mini Grimdark (datasheets review and Wolf Watch meta watch) (22 Oct), TacticalRock40K (post-codex character board, wolf characters only) (21 Oct), 1d6chan (Space Marine Variant Chapters, Space Wolves units) (30 Oct). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.
Lists
83 public Space Wolves 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.