Wulfen Dreadnought
SWORD: what Wulfen Dreadnought kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 140 pts kill ~95 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against light vehicles and monsters, weakest against hordes
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Space Wolves
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Wulfen Dreadnought is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 140 pts take ~435 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- Still hits like it used to 1 of 3
- No OC, and easily tied up 1 of 3
- Needs a dreadnought-heavy list 1 of 3
- Better dreadnoughts and Wulfen exist 1 of 3
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wulfen Dreadnought140 pts | C | Top 27% | Top 49% | 0of 83 |
| Venerable Dreadnought130 pts | B | Top 24% | Bottom 44% | 27of 83 |
| Blood Claws150 pts | C | Bottom 40% | Top 37% | 13of 83 |
With a leader
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 93 | 115 |
| SHIELD | 311 | 311 |
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 93 | 100 |
| SHIELD | 311 | 374 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Wulfen Dreadnought, 140 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, in Ironclad Champions. 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.
140 pts → kills ~95 pts → 68 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.
~435 pts → 311 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.