Space Marines army
Blood Angels tier list
Tier list and tournament results · 40k 11th edition
100 winning lists (the top quarter of their event, every source), Sep–Nov 2026; 116 public lists whose units we can read; 8 published in full. Updated 11 Nov.
Results
100winning lists, Sep–Nov 2026By month
Its lists in the top quarter, out of all such lists, by month; the months this page counts in bold.
Detachments
22in its 116 public listsShow 17 more
Ironstorm Spearhead12 lists ›Wrath of the Doomed12 lists ›Angelic Inheritors7 lists ›Terminator Storm Force6 lists ›Tactical Brethren5 lists ›Deathwatch Support2 lists ›Devastator Brethren2 lists ›Gravis Linebreaker Force1 list ›Gravis Siege Force1 list ›Phobos Shadow Force1 list ›Tacticus Firestorm Force1 list ›Units
14tiers from 9 creatorsLetter: 9 creatorsBars: our dice math
Epic Heroes5
Characters4
Infantry3
Vehicles2
Each unit: its points and how many of the army's 116 public lists take it, Sep–Nov 2026.
Letters from the creators who know the game best; Damage and Toughness (SWORD and SHIELD on unit pages) from our own dice math (how we score). Lists: grimstat-corpus (CC BY 4.0), September – November 2026. Also from Listhammer, MiniHeadQuarters, ChampionsHub. Questions about a list or an event? Get in touch. Win-rate letter: ours, from Stat Check's published 11th-edition win rates, 2 Nov 2026. Sources
Creators 30 Oct · SWORD and SHIELD 6 Nov · Points and lists 11 Nov
Questions
- What are the best Blood Angels units?
- The creators' average is A for Sanguinary Guard, Death Company Dreadnought, Baal Predator. Then B: Sanguinary Priest, Death Company Captain with Jump Pack, The Sanguinor, Lemartes.
- What do the letters mean?
- Each letter is a weighted average of the letters up to 9 creators gave that unit, S to D: full reviews and tier lists count more than a single list.
- What do SWORD and SHIELD mean?
- Our own dice math against 100 top tournament lists. SWORD is the points of a top tournament army it removes per 100 of its own points each time it acts, picking its targets sensibly from a real list, with its melee counted by how often it gets into combat; SHIELD is how much of a top tournament army's turn it takes to wipe out 100 points of it, its own healing played between turns. Each comes with where it ranks among the game's units of its kind.
- Which Blood Angels units do lists take most?
- Of 116 public lists: Sanguinary Guard (99), Death Company Marines with Jump Packs (55), Baal Predator (54).
- Which Blood Angels detachment do tournament lists take most?
- Assault Brethren: 48 of the 116 Blood Angels tournament lists of September – November 2026 took it.
Sources
- Letters
- Each letter is a weighted average of the creators' letters: full reviews and tier lists count more than a single list. A dashed letter means no creator has rated that unit yet: it's our estimate, placed by SWORD and SHIELD only among the army's creator-rated units.
- SWORD and SHIELD
- Our own dice math, last run 6 Nov 2026. Both are shown scaled: SWORD is 0.8832 × the points it removes, SHIELD 2097.5 × the share of a turn, so a typical unit's SHIELD reads about 333. SWORD is the points of a top tournament army it removes per 100 of its own points each time it acts, picking its targets sensibly from a real list, with its melee counted by how often it gets into combat; SHIELD is how much of a top tournament army's turn it takes to wipe out 100 points of it, its own healing played between turns. Each is averaged over 100 top lists from the last three months, leaving out the most extreme tenth at each end; each is shown with where it ranks among the game's units of its kind (top 10%, bottom 20%): shooters beside shooters, melee units beside melee units, a unit built to support beside every unit. How we score.
- Creators
- The Blood Angels creators who know the game best, each counted once: tier lists, reviews of their own lists and written reviews. Their tiers are their own, put on our S to D scale by us (their top tier S, and so on down); we show how many gave each and the letter they add up to.
- Happy Krumping (Doc Krump, faction review and recommended list), 12 Oct 2026
- Auspex Tactics (full rules review of the BA update, two winning lists), 8 Oct 2026
- TacticalRock40K (post-codex character board and epic heroes board), 24 Oct 2026
- Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (Competitive Innovations, 10-24 Oct: 11 top-placing BA lists), 30 Oct 2026
- TacticalTortoise (The Best Armies in 40k, two weekly meta watches: two undefeated BA lists), 26 Oct 2026
- Battleborn 40k (points review with their BA player), 3 Oct 2026
- Death Company Dropout (opinion piece), 24 Oct 2026
- Art of War 40k (first look at the BA supplement with points), 19 Sep 2026
- Grimdark Chronicle (counted panel, older datasheets), 19 Sep 2026
- Lists
- 116 public Blood Angels tournament lists, September – November 2026, from grimstat-corpus (CC BY 4.0). Also from Listhammer, MiniHeadQuarters, ChampionsHub. Questions about a list or an event? Get in touch.
- Win-rate letter
- Win-rate letter: ours, from Stat Check's published 11th-edition win rates, 2 Nov 2026. Cut at S 55% and over, A 52.5%, B 49%, C 46%, D below; only the letter is ours to show, never their numbers.