Ragnar Blackmane
SWORD: what Ragnar Blackmane kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 100 pts kill ~50 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
In Space Wolves
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Ragnar Blackmane is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 100 pts take ~214 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- Buffs Blood Claws and Headtakers 3 of 4
- Warlord command points when Logan is absent 3 of 4
- Strong pure-melee leader 2 of 4
- His special rule is no longer special 1 of 4
- No new units to lead 1 of 4
- Few winning lists take him 1 of 4
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ragnar Blackmane100 pts | B | Bottom 40% | Bottom 11% | 12of 83 |
| Arjac Rockfist105 pts | B | Top 19% | Bottom 31% | 44of 83 |
| Ulrik the Slayer90 pts | C | Bottom 42% | Bottom 13% | 1of 83 |
Leading a squad
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 50 | 65 |
| SHIELD | 214 | 258 |
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 50 | 48 |
| SHIELD | 214 | 257 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Ragnar Blackmane, 100 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.
100 pts → kills ~50 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.
~214 pts → 214 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.