Hand of the Archon
SWORD: what Hand of the Archon kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 115 pts kill ~94 pts in one activation.Typical unit: 48 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against light vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
SHIELD: how hard Hand of the Archon is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 115 pts take ~297 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- Scouts and grabs objectives cheaply 3 of 3
- Holds a chosen objective firmly 2 of 3
- Replaces the Kabalites 1 of 3
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hand of the Archon115 pts | A | Top 8% | Bottom 26% | 35of 83 |
| Scourges with Shardcarbines75 pts | B | Bottom 41% | Bottom 15% | 19of 83 |
| Scourges with Heavy Weapons110 pts | A | Top 10% | Bottom 2% | 78of 83 |
With a leader
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 118 | 133 |
| SHIELD | 258 | 258 |
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 118 | 130 |
| SHIELD | 258 | 258 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Hand of the Archon, 10 models, 115 pts, with 1 Blast Pistol, 1 Blaster, 9 Close Combat Weapon, 1 Dark Lance, 1 Pain sculptors, 1 Power Weapon, 1 Razorflail, 1 Shardcarbine, 1 Splinter Pistol, 4 Splinter Rifle, in Reaper's Wager. 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.
115 pts → kills ~94 pts → 82 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.
~297 pts → 258 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 939 units. How we score.
The letter
The average of 6 creators' 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). Questions? Get in touch.
Lists
83 public Drukhari 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.