Bloodthirster
SWORD: what Bloodthirster kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 320 pts kill ~160 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against heavy vehicles and monsters, weakest against hordes
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Bloodthirster is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 320 pts take ~819 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- Big flying threat that hits hard 2 of 4
- Skarbrand or Angron is better for the points 3 of 4
- Daemon points cap squeezes it out 1 of 4
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bloodthirster320 pts | B | Bottom 40% | Bottom 23% | 7of 215 |
| Daemon Prince of Khorne200 pts | A | Top 43% | Bottom 37% | 50of 215 |
| Daemon Prince of Khorne with wings170 pts | B | Top 24% | Bottom 46% | 17of 215 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Bloodthirster, 320 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, in Khorne Daemonkin (Blood Tithe: Daemonic Rage). On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: 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.
320 pts → kills ~160 pts → 50 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.
~819 pts → 256 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 571 melee units. How we score.
The letter
The average of 9 reviewers' newest World Eaters tier lists: Secondary Objective (with Aiden, a top World Eaters player) (22 Oct), Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (dataslate review and Competitive Innovations, 6 winning lists and about 12 summaries) (25 Oct), Berzerker Dan (a GT World Eaters player) (3 Oct), Grimdark Roundtable (2 Oct), The Glorious Game (14 Oct), Exalted40k (12 Sep), Auspex Tactics (25 GT lists at 4-1 or better) (1 Sep), Tactical Sugar (20 Aug), The Red Path (29 Jun). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.
Lists
215 public World Eaters 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 4 Nov.