Blood Claws
SWORD: what Blood Claws kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 150 pts kill ~75 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against heavy infantry
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Space Wolves
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Blood Claws is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 150 pts take ~506 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
5 reviewers- Strong with Ragnar and Beast Slayer 2 of 5
- Cheap melee bodies 1 of 5
- Can ride Rhinos 1 of 5
- Advance-and-charge is no longer special 4 of 5
- Overpriced for what they do 3 of 5
- Need the right buffs to work 2 of 5
- Struggle into heavy targets 1 of 5
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blood Claws150 pts | C | Bottom 40% | Top 37% | 13of 83 |
| Grey Hunters180 pts | A | Top 32% | Bottom 38% | 16of 83 |
| Logan Grimnar150 pts | S | Bottom 46% | Bottom 16% | 76of 83 |
With a leader
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 96 | 106 |
| SHIELD | 337 | 368 |
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 96 | 104 |
| SHIELD | 337 | 337 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Blood Claws, 10 models, 150 pts, with 9 Bolt pistol, 9 Chainsword, 1 Power weapon, 1 Plasma pistol - Standard, 1 Plasma pistol - Supercharge, in Saga of the Great Wolf (Master of Wolves: Ferocious Strike). 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.
150 pts → kills ~75 pts → 50 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.
~506 pts → 337 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.