Skarbrand
SWORD: what Skarbrand kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 315 pts kill ~161 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 Skarbrand is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 315 pts take ~900 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
5 reviewers- Extra hammer with an attack aura 2 of 5
- Fine pick in Daemonkin wins 1 of 5
- Daemonkin works fine without him 3 of 5
- Seen in few lists 1 of 5
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skarbrand315 pts | B | Bottom 42% | Bottom 40% | 8of 215 |
| Angron330 pts | A | Top 48% | Bottom 21% | 163of 215 |
| Khârn the Betrayer115 pts | S | Top 11% | Bottom 6% | 163of 215 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Skarbrand, 315 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.
315 pts → kills ~161 pts → 51 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.
~900 pts → 286 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.