Sanctifiers
SWORD: what Sanctifiers kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 110 pts kill ~65 pts in one activation.Typical unit: 48 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· units
SHIELD: how hard Sanctifiers is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 110 pts take ~255 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical unit: 305 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· units
What creators say
3 creators- Plenty of flamer volume for the price 3 of 3
- Cherub and simulacrum feed miracle dice 2 of 3
- Absent from winning lists since the update 2 of 3
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sanctifiers110 pts | C | Top 31% | Bottom 17% | 26of 158 |
| Celestian Insidiants115 pts | B | Top 2% | Bottom 46% | 46of 158 |
| Retributor Squad105 pts | C | Top 24% | Bottom 7% | 38of 158 |
With a leader
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 124 | 141 |
| SHIELD | 232 | 319 |
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 124 | 140 |
| SHIELD | 232 | 255 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Sanctifiers, 9 models, 110 pts, with 1 Burning hands, 3 Close combat weapon, 1 Death Cult blades, 2 Holy fire, 1 Ministorum flamer, 5 Ministorum hand flamer, 4 Sanctifier melee weapon, 1 Plasma gun - standard, 1 Plasma gun - supercharge, in Bringers of Flame. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: its own abilities and 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.
110 pts → kills ~65 pts → 59 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.
~255 pts → 232 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.