Canoness
SWORD: what Canoness kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 60 pts kill ~17 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against line infantry, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Canoness is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 60 pts take ~151 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
4 reviewers- A cheap captain in most lists 4 of 4
- Bait that turns into miracle dice when killed 2 of 4
- Protects a unit from psychic attacks 3 of 4
- Comes back in Hallowed Martyrs 1 of 4
- Rare in winning lists since the update 1 of 4
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canoness60 pts | B | Bottom 4% | Bottom 22% | 52of 127 |
| Palatine50 pts | C | Bottom 43% | Bottom 32% | 24of 127 |
| Canoness with Jump Pack75 pts | A | Bottom 3% | Bottom 1% | 42of 127 |
Leading a squad
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 28 | 80 |
| SHIELD | 252 | 256 |
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 28 | 62 |
| SHIELD | 252 | 263 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Canoness, 60 pts, with 1 Power weapon, 1 Plasma pistol - standard, 1 Plasma pistol - supercharge. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: its own abilities.
SWORD
Enemy points it kills in one activation, per 100 pts of its own, against a mix of targets weighted like top tournament lists.
60 pts → kills ~17 pts → 28 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.
~151 pts → 252 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 572 melee units. How we score.
The letter
The average of 7 reviewers' newest Adepta Sororitas tier lists: Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (dataslate review, Competitive Innovations: 4 full winning lists and 11 summaries, 3 to 24 Oct) (30 Oct), Grimdark Breakdown (best units ranked, moved by its 2 Sep list builds) (2 Sep), Christian Von Carmian (11th-edition rules review and the LGT winner's list, his own preferences) (29 Sep), Art of War 40k (army tier list, Sisters segment) (27 Oct), TacticalTortoise 40k (LGT-winning Hallowed Martyrs list explained) (30 Sep), Grand Slam-Gaming (three of his own tournament lists) (11 Sep), 1d6chan (community 11th-edition tactics wiki, much text carried over from 10th) (30 Oct). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.
Lists
127 public Adepta Sororitas 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 2 Nov.