Penitent Engines
SWORD: what Penitent Engines kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 70 pts kill ~35 pts in one activation.Typical unit: 48 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against heavy infantry
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· units
SHIELD: how hard Penitent Engines is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 70 pts take ~219 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical unit: 305 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
In Adepta Sororitas
Across the game· units
What creators say
1 creator- Middling, with no re-rolls 1 of 1
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penitent Engines70 pts | B | Top 46% | Top 46% | 7of 158 |
| Paragon Warsuits165 pts | S | Top 6% | Top 43% | 141of 158 |
| Mortifiers130 pts | A | Top 17% | Bottom 40% | 52of 158 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Penitent Engines, 70 pts, with 1 Penitent Flamers, 1 Twin Penitent Flails, in Bringers of Flame. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: the detachment's rule.
SWORD
Enemy points it kills in one activation, per 100 pts of its own, against a mix of targets weighted like top tournament lists.
70 pts → kills ~35 pts → 50 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.
~219 pts → 313 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 939 units. How we score.
The letter
The average of 7 creators' 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). Questions? Get in touch.
Lists
158 public Adepta Sororitas 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. Numbers run 2 Nov.