Archon
SWORD: what Archon kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 80 pts kill ~30 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against heavy vehicles and monsters, weakest against hordes
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Archon is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 80 pts take ~299 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
5 reviewers- Free stratagem and a battle-shock cure 3 of 5
- Re-rolls for his Kabalites 3 of 5
- Carries enhancements in a hero-heavy army 1 of 5
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Archon80 pts | B | Bottom 15% | Top 23% | 43of 57 |
| Troupe Master75 pts | B | Top 20% | Bottom 4% | 1of 57 |
| Haemonculus50 pts | B | Top 46% | Top 44% | 5of 57 |
Leading a squad
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 38 | 70 |
| SHIELD | 374 | 272 |
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 38 | 71 |
| SHIELD | 374 | 256 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Archon, 80 pts, with 1 Huskblade, 1 Splinter pistol, in Skysplinter Assault. 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.
80 pts → kills ~30 pts → 38 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.
~299 pts → 374 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 572 melee units. How we score.
The letter
The average of 6 reviewers' newest Drukhari tier lists: SkaredCast (two tournament reviews, 23 Sep and 21 Oct) (21 Oct), Deploy on the Line 40K (tier list 7 Jul, Space Marine book video 23 Sep, dataslate 30 Sep) (30 Sep), BreakingHeads (podcast with Team Germany's Pau and guest Skari) (5 Sep), Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (dataslate review, Competitive Innovations: 1 full list and 5 summaries) (30 Oct), Proxy Hammer (detachment review after the dataslate) (5 Oct), 1d6chan (community 11th-edition tactics wiki, much text carried over from 10th) (29 Jul). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.
Lists
57 public Drukhari 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.