Troupe Master
SWORD: what Troupe Master kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 75 pts kill ~55 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against light vehicles and monsters, weakest against hordes
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Troupe Master is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 75 pts take ~129 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· melee units
What creators say
4 creators- Gives the Troupe wound re-rolls out of a Falcon 2 of 4
- Works in Seer Council and Eldritch Raiders 1 of 4
- Three led an event-winning list 1 of 4
- Rarely in winning lists 1 of 4
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Troupe Master75 pts | B | Top 20% | Bottom 4% | 18of 149 |
| Autarch70 pts | B | Bottom 43% | Bottom 9% | 17of 149 |
| Autarch Wayleaper70 pts | B | Bottom 43% | Bottom 8% | 10of 149 |
Leading a squad
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 73 | 83 |
| SHIELD | 172 | 183 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Troupe Master, 75 pts, with 1 Fusion Pistol, 1 Troupe Master's Blade, in Serpent's Brood. 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.
75 pts → kills ~55 pts → 73 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.
~129 pts → 172 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 572 melee units. How we score.
The letter
The average of 7 creators' newest Aeldari tier lists: Proxy Hammer (post-dataslate unit tier list) (8 Oct), CraftworldEldar (meta watch of the best lists, dataslate review, starter guide) (17 Oct), Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (Competitive Innovations: 9 winning lists and 10 summaries, and the September balance review) (17 Oct), Battleborn 40k (dataslate points review with the channel's Aeldari player) (4 Oct), 6 Plus Plus Gaming (detachment tier list) (29 Oct), Night Geist Gaming (five of his own lists, run through a damage tool) (27 Oct), 1d6chan (community 11th-edition tactics wiki) (2 Oct). Questions? Get in touch.
Lists
149 public Aeldari 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.