Tech-Priest Manipulus
SWORD: what Tech-Priest Manipulus kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 60 pts kill ~35 pts in one activation.Typical unit: 48 per 100
Best against line infantry, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Adeptus Mechanicus
Across the game· units
SHIELD: how hard Tech-Priest Manipulus is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 60 pts take ~240 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical unit: 305 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· units
What reviewers say
3 reviewers- Gives Hastarii lethal hits 2 of 3
- In no winning list 1 of 3
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tech-Priest Manipulus60 pts | B | Top 33% | Top 19% | 31of 132 |
| Tech-Priest Dominus60 pts | D | Top 40% | Top 17% | 9of 132 |
| Tech-Priest Enginseer55 pts | A | Bottom 9% | Top 50% | 91of 132 |
Leading a squad
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 58 | 72 |
| SHIELD | 400 | 491 |
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 58 | 77 |
| SHIELD | 400 | 345 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Tech-Priest Manipulus, 60 pts, with 1 Omnissian staff, 1 Transonic cannon, in Lords of the Forge. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: the army rule 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.
60 pts → kills ~35 pts → 58 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.
~240 pts → 400 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 939 units. How we score.
The letter
The average of 8 reviewers' newest Adeptus Mechanicus tier lists: Belisarius Paul (August tier list moved by his 30 Sep points video and October Eradication/Cybernetica guide) (9 Oct), Omnii (dataslate review with sample lists) (1 Oct), Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (Imperium dataslate review, Competitive Innovations to 30 Oct: 3 full lists and 6 summaries) (30 Oct), Nexos Floof (dataslate review, AdMech part) (12 Oct), DankMechanicus (anti-tank simulation and dataslate review) (4 Oct), Art of War 40k (11th-edition army tier list, AdMech chapter) (27 Oct), Auspex Tactics (army tier list, AdMech part) (23 Oct), 1d6chan (community 11th-edition tactics wiki, much 10th-edition text carried over) (30 Oct). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.
Lists
132 public Adeptus Mechanicus 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.