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Wolf Guard Headtakers

Infantry · 3 models, 85 pts

Lists38% · in 47 of 123 public lists, September – November 2026

SimulateWolf Guard Headtakers against any unit, in the calculator

SWORD: what Wolf Guard Headtakers kills

Damage for its points

103pts killed
per 100 pts spent

Its 85 pts kill ~88 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100

Best against line infantry, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters

Into each enemy type

Everything103top 3%

Hordes101top 14%

Line inf. ★129top 3%

Heavy inf.114top 4%

Light veh.120top 2%

Heavy veh.85top 17%

Units near it by SWORD

In Space Wolves

Wolf Guard Headtakers103

Wolf Scouts95

Wulfen93

Thunderwolf Cavalry88

Murderfang84

Across the game· melee units

Celestian Insidiants Adepta Sororitas · just ahead104

Wolf Guard Headtakers 103

Wraithlord Aeldari · level with it103

SHIELD: how hard Wolf Guard Headtakers is to kill for its points

Toughness for its points

398pts to kill it
per 100 pts spent

Its 85 pts take ~338 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100

For its points398top 17%

Units near it by SHIELD

In Space Wolves

Wolf Guard Terminators402

Wolf Guard Headtakers398

Bjorn the Fell-Handed371

Blood Claws337

Thunderwolf Cavalry318

Across the game· melee units

Possessed Chaos Space Marines · just ahead399

Wolf Guard Headtakers 398

Plaguebearers Chaos Daemons · just behind397

What creators say

4 creators

Hounds stay as extra wounds 4 of 4
Healing keeps the hound brick going 3 of 4
Precision into a marked target 2 of 4
Leaders share their quarry bonus 1 of 4

Cost looks off for small squads 2 of 4
Bladeguard now fill the role better 1 of 4

Compare

Unit	Letter	SWORD	SHIELD	Lists
Wolf Guard Headtakers85 pts	A	Top 3%	Top 17%	47of 123
Wulfen90 pts	C	Top 6%	Top 50%	5of 123
Wolf Scouts95 pts	B	Top 5%	Bottom 38%	27of 123

With a leader

Led by Ulrik the SlayerSWORD into its best target

	Solo	Led
SWORD	129	187
SHIELD	398	398

Led by Wolf PriestSWORD into its best target

	Solo	Led
SWORD	129	158
SHIELD	398	468

Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.

How we got these numbers

What we ran

Wolf Guard Headtakers, 3 models, 85 pts, with 3 Heavy Bolt Pistol, 3 Paired Master-crafted Power 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.

85 pts → kills ~88 pts → 103 per 100

SHIELD

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.

~338 pts → 398 per 100

Top and bottom %

Where each number ranks among the game's 566 melee units. How we score.

The letter

The average of 6 creators' 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). Questions? Get in touch.

Lists

123 public Space Wolves tournament lists, September – November 2026, from grimstat-corpus (CC BY 4.0). Also from Listhammer, MiniHeadQuarters, ChampionsHub. Questions about a list or an event? Get in touch. Numbers run 6 Nov.