Iron Priest
SWORD: what Iron Priest kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 60 pts kill ~47 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against heavy infantry, weakest against hordes
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Space Wolves
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Iron Priest is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 60 pts take ~177 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
6 reviewers- His buff no longer beats cover 3 of 6
- A Techmarine does it better 2 of 6
- His buff mostly helps himself 2 of 6
- No tactical reason to take him 1 of 6
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iron Priest60 pts | D | Top 16% | Bottom 44% | 3of 83 |
| Wolf Priest75 pts | B | Bottom 24% | Bottom 12% | 15of 83 |
| Wolf Guard Battle Leader80 pts | A | Top 26% | Bottom 30% | 31of 83 |
Leading a squad
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 78 | 84 |
| SHIELD | 295 | 319 |
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 78 | 79 |
| SHIELD | 295 | 265 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Iron Priest, 60 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, 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: 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.
60 pts → kills ~47 pts → 78 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.
~177 pts → 295 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.