Warhammer 40K: Space Marines Top 5 Melee Damage Dealers
Goatboy here with the plain jane Space Marine characters who are absolute powerhouses in melee. It’s not who you think!
We’re looking at the regular ole Space Marine characters and who could do the most damage with the perfect rolls. I know this isn’t what they are going to be able to do most of the time but this is looking at them when they are the most perfect murder machines on the tabletop. You would think Roboute Guilliman would be number one – but he isn’t! These are the Astartes to watch out for in melee in 10th Edition.
5. Three-Way-Tie: Tigurius & Darnath Lysander & Adrax Agatone
All three of these characters run with 5 attacks apiece and either the chance for Damage 3 or flat Damage 3. This brings them into the mid tier of Space Marine heroes as most of the time they are sitting at Damage 12 for the regular characters. It is pretty interesting to see a lot of potential Damage 3 options which helps you throw out that damage.
4. Iron Father Feirros
This is a weird one in that the Iron Hands‘ Feirros has 6 basic attacks from Harrowhand that sit at Damage 2. His extra Attack Servo arm – named Medusa’s Manipuli will throw out two more Damage 3 attacks to bring his total damage potential to 18 Damage. This puts him above the common range of attacks that sit around Damage 15 for a ton of the Space Marine Characters.
3. Roboute Guilliman
Both his Hand of Dominion and Emperor’s Sword max out at 28 damage each. This is a huge amount of damage and Guilliman’s AP sitting at -3 for the Sword and -4 for the Hand is probably one of the best in the books. The Ultramarines‘ Avenging Son is still pretty amazing.
2. Marneus Calgar
As he currently comes with two extra characters that are mandatory with his unit, Calgar gains a lot of damage potential when compared to the other characters. His Gauntlets of Ultramar will throw out at least 18 Damage from his 6 attacks and then his Victorix Guard will throw out another 10 Damage 2 attacks for a total of 38 damage this jerk can throw around. For Ultramar!
1. Aethon Shaan
He is one of the newest characters on the block with an amazing model. His claim to fame is that his weapons – the Claws of Severax – grant him Sustained 2. This means if all 7 of his attacks would roll 6’s to hit he would get a whooping 21 attacks at Damage 2 which gives you a chance to do 42 damage to a target. There is just no one else that can come this close to this giant pile of damage from the Raven Guard.
Any surprises in here for you?
