Wolf Scouts
SWORD: what Wolf Scouts kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 95 pts kill ~90 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Wolf Scouts is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 95 pts take ~267 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- Top infiltrating damage dealer 2 of 4
- Scouts forward to threaten 1 of 4
- A luxury over plain Scouts 2 of 4
- Die easily once engaged 1 of 4
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wolf Scouts95 pts | B | Top 5% | Bottom 38% | 17of 83 |
| Wulfen90 pts | C | Top 6% | Top 50% | 4of 83 |
| Wolf Guard Headtakers85 pts | A | Top 3% | Top 17% | 34of 83 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Wolf Scouts, 6 models, 95 pts, with 1 Bolt pistol, 3 Combat Knife, 1 Power weapon, 1 Runic Stave, 1 Teeth and Claws, 1 Thunderclap, 1 Plasma gun - standard, 1 Plasma gun - supercharge, 3 Plasma pistol - Standard, 3 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: 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.
95 pts → kills ~90 pts → 95 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.
~267 pts → 281 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.