Venerable Dreadnought
SWORD: what Venerable Dreadnought kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 130 pts kill ~92 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against light vehicles and monsters, 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 Venerable Dreadnought is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 130 pts take ~382 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
3 reviewers- Boosts advances and charges nearby 2 of 3
- Cheap for a gun platform 2 of 3
- Helps Terminators after deep strike 1 of 3
- Taken for the aura, not the guns 1 of 3
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venerable Dreadnought130 pts | B | Top 24% | Bottom 44% | 27of 83 |
| Wulfen Dreadnought140 pts | C | Top 27% | Top 49% | 0of 83 |
| Thunderwolf Cavalry115 pts | A | Top 8% | Top 45% | 35of 83 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Venerable Dreadnought, 130 pts, with 1 Dreadnought Fist, 1 Heavy Flamer, 1 Multi-melta, 1 Fenrisian great axe - strike, 1 Fenrisian great axe - sweep. 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.
130 pts → kills ~92 pts → 71 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.
~382 pts → 294 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.