Analysis of Troops: Stage one Shooting with Standard Weapons against T4 enemies.

After reading Distaste for Vanilla Space Marine Troops over on the 11th Company forums I got to thinking, how bad are Space Marine Tactical Squads really?  How do they stack up against the other codices as far as troop choices go on a point for point basis?

For my first analysis I decided to see how the various troop choices (there are 42 different troop options in the whole of 40k not counting troops unlocked using special characters, troops unlocked through some other means: Tervigons for example, and I also excluded the Death Company Dread for ease of comparison) did in shooting at a T4 opponent with their standard load out (no upgrades taken, except the weapons platform for Eldar Guardians because it is mandatory, I took the Shuriken catapult as it was the least expensive option.)

For this analysis I compared the shooting of 100 points of each type of troop, to make it a fair comparison from a points aspect (of course 200 points of marines shoot better than 50 points of Gretchin for example.).  I also broke down shooting into 3 Categories Range Greater than 24 inches, Range from 13-24 inches, and Range of 12 inches or less.  This does leave a little grey area at 18" as some units have 18" range guns which are no good at 24", but I decided to not get even more complex so this is obviously a little Skewed.

That said here is what I came up with for the final ranking.

	1 DE Warriors 2 Fire Warriors 2 Kroot 4 Dire Avengers/Shoota Boyz 5 IG Veterans 6 Battle Sisters 7 Guard Infantry Platoon 8 Pink Horrors 9 Grey Hunters 10 CSM 11 Inquisitorial Storm Troopers 12 Penal Legion 13 GK Strike Squad 14 Templars 15 DA Tacticals 16 Tacticals 17 Termagants 18 Gretchin 19 Necron Warriors 20 Tyranid Warriors 21 Guardians 22 Scouts 23 Blood Claws 24 Noise marines 25 Thousand Sons 26 Plague marines 27 Rangers 28 Wyches 29 Ork Boyz 30 BA Assault Squad 31 GK Terminators 32 Death company 33 Guardian Jetbikes 34 Berzerkers 35 Bloodletters 35 Daemonettes 35 Genestealers 35 Hormagaunts 35 Nurglings 35 Plague bearers 35 Rippers 35 Summoned Lesser Daemons
	Now it is obvious why the units that tied for 35th overall did so as none of those units can shoot at all.  What I found interesting was just how high Kroot placed, with only BS 3 and a bolter that is AP 6, they also end up just as good as Fire Warriors (better if you discount the high placement of Fire warriors in the shooting over 24" category, as only 2 squads have standard firepower over 24", Fire Warriors and Eldar Rangers.)  Now of course accounting for AP could be important but T4 Could mean Marines, or it could mean orks so I just wanted to look at total number of wounds caused.
	Also interesting keep in mind is that if you make the Ork Boyz shoota boyz (a free upgrade) they are equivalent to Dire avengers, so point for point Orks shoot better than any of the marines using standard/free upgrades.
	Here is the math for all units
	Unit Name Wounds VS T4 Number of models 25"+ 13-24" less than 12" BA Assault Squad 5.263157895 0 0  1.754385965 Battle Sisters 9.090909091 0  3.030303   6.060606061 Berzerkers 4.761904762 0 0 0 Blood Claws 6.666666667 0 1.666667  3.333333333 Bloodletters 6.25 0 0 0 CSM 6.666666667 0 2.222222 4.444444444 DA Tacticals 6.060606061 0 2.020202 4.04040404 Daemonettes 7.142857143 0 0 0 DE Warriors 11.11111111 0 3.703704 7.407407407 Death company 5 0 0 1.666666667 Dire Avengers 8.333333333 0 5.555556 5.555555556 Fire Warriors 10 3.333333 3.333333 6.666666667 Genestealers 7.142857143 0 0 0 GK Strike Squad 5 0 3.333333 3.333333333 GK Terminators 2.5 0 1.666667 1.666666667 Gretchin 27.5 0 0 4.583333333 Grey Hunters 6.666666667 0 2.222222 4.444444444 Guard Infantry Platoon 19.23076923 0 2.705128 5.965811966 Guardian Jetbikes 4.545454545 0 0 1.291322314 Guardians 12.5 0 1.25 4.375 Hormagaunts 16.66666667 0 0 0 Inquisitorial Storm Troopers 10 0 2.222222 4.444444444 Kroot 14.28571429 0 3.571429 7.142857143 Necron Warriors 5.555555556 0 1.851852 3.703703704 Noise marines 5 0 1.666667 3.333333333 Nurglings 7.692307692 0 0 0 Ork Boyz 16.66666667 0 0 2.777777778 Penal Legion 12.5 0 2.555556 4 Pink Horrors 5.882352941 0 4.411765 4.411764706 Plague bearers 6.666666667 0 0 0 Plague marines 4.347826087 0 1.449275 2.898550725 Rangers 5.263157895 1.754386 1.754386 1.754385965 Rippers 10 0 0 0 Scouts 7.142857143 0 1.785714 3.571428571 Shoota Boyz 16.66666667 0 5.555556 5.555555556 Summoned Lesser Daemons 7.692307692 0 0 0 Tacticals 5.882352941 0 1.960784 3.921568627 Templars 6.25 0 2.083333 4.166666667 Termagants 20 0 0 5 Thousand Sons 3.610108303 0 1.786703 2.656738869 Tyranid Warriors 3.333333333 0 2.5 2.5 Veterans 14.28571429 0 3.174603 6.349206349 Wyches 10 0 0 3.333333333