Spore Mines
SWORD: what Spore Mines kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 55 pts kill ~0 pts in one activation.Typical unit: 47 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against hordes
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· units
SHIELD: how hard Spore Mines is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 55 pts take ~59 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical unit: 305 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· units
What reviewers say
2 reviewers- Overpriced bought on their own 2 of 2
- A Biovore makes them far cheaper 1 of 2
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spore Mines55 pts | D | Bottom 1% | Bottom 1% | 0of 217 |
| Ripper Swarms30 pts | B | Bottom 2% | Bottom 11% | 30of 217 |
| Mucolid Spores30 pts | D | Bottom 1% | Bottom 11% | 0of 217 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Spore Mines, 3 models, 55 pts, with its datasheet's weapons. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: the army 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.
55 pts → kills ~0 pts → 0 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.
~59 pts → 107 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 930 units. How we score.
The letter
The average of 4 reviewers' newest Tyranids tier lists: Auspex Tactics (12 Sep), Into the Hive Mind (12 Oct), HivemindHobbies (18 Oct), Maelstrom Gaming Studios (26 Oct). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.
Lists
217 public Tyranids 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 2 Nov.