What are the best Iron Hands units?

No creator has rated these yet. Our estimates put Iron Father Feirros (A), Caanok Var (B) first.

What do the letters mean?

No creator has rated these units yet, so each letter is our estimate from SWORD and SHIELD only, placed among the Space Marines' creator-rated units.

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 Iron Hands units do lists take most?

Of 42 public lists: Iron Father Feirros (39), Caanok Var (35).

Which Iron Hands detachment do tournament lists take most?

Medusa's Wrath: 24 of the 42 Iron Hands tournament lists of September – November 2026 took it.

Space Marines army

Iron Hands tier list

Tier list and tournament results · 40k 11th edition

Winning lists382 top-3 finishes

Best finish1st of 12[WYPRZEDANY] Wrześniowa 11 edycja w Battle Hub turniej

38 winning lists (the top quarter of their event, every source), Sep–Nov 2026; 42 public lists whose units we can read; 3 published in full. Updated 11 Nov.

Results

38winning lists, Sep–Nov 2026

2ndof 28FWC n84Ironclad Champions and Medusa's Wrath31 Oct ›5thof 24[WYPRZEDANY] Październikowa 11 edycja w Battle Hub turniejAssault Brethren, Gravis Linebreaker Force and Ironclad Champions11 Oct ›1stof 12[WYPRZEDANY] Wrześniowa 11 edycja w Battle Hub turniejCeramite Sentinels26 Sep ›Lists we can show: 3 ›

By month

Jun●●2 of 137

Jul●●●●●●●7 of 1579

Aug●●●●●●●●●●●●+18 of 2067

Sep●●●●●●●●●●●●12 of 1901

Oct●●●●●●●●●●●●+18 of 1942

Nov●●●●●●●●8 of 449

Its lists in the top quarter, out of all such lists, by month; the months this page counts in bold.

Detachments

14in its 42 public lists

Medusa's Wrath24 lists ›Devastator Brethren13 lists ›Ironclad Champions9 lists ›Assault Brethren3 lists ›Ceramite Sentinels2 lists ›

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Phobos Shadow Force2 lists ›Terminator Storm Force2 lists ›Gravis Linebreaker Force1 list ›Gravis Siege Force1 list ›Stormlance Task Force1 list ›Tactical Brethren1 list ›

Hammer of Avernii (not in the new codex)13 lists

Librarius Conclave (not in the new codex)9 lists

Vengeful Hosts (not in the new codex)4 lists

Units

2our estimates

Letter: our estimateBars: our dice math

Epic Heroes2

Iron Father Feirros85 pts · 39 listsA Caanok Var100 pts · 35 listsB

B dashed: no creators yet, so it's our estimate. Each unit: its points and how many of the army's 42 public lists take it, Sep–Nov 2026.

Letters are our estimates; 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 none yet · SWORD and SHIELD 6 Nov · Points and lists 11 Nov

Questions

What are the best Iron Hands units?: No creator has rated these yet. Our estimates put Iron Father Feirros (A), Caanok Var (B) first.
What do the letters mean?: No creator has rated these units yet, so each letter is our estimate from SWORD and SHIELD only, placed among the Space Marines' creator-rated units.
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 Iron Hands units do lists take most?: Of 42 public lists: Iron Father Feirros (39), Caanok Var (35).
Which Iron Hands detachment do tournament lists take most?: Medusa's Wrath: 24 of the 42 Iron Hands tournament lists of September – November 2026 took it.

Sources

Letters: A dashed letter means no creator has rated that unit yet: it's our estimate, placed by SWORD and SHIELD only among the Space Marines' 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: None yet for Iron Hands' own units.
Lists: 42 public Iron Hands 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.