Talos
SWORD: what Talos kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 140 pts kill ~115 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 Talos is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 140 pts take ~597 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100
What reviewers say
5 reviewers- Hard to put down 3 of 5
- Pain-engine stat check, great into tanks 2 of 5
- Cheaper in twos 1 of 5
- Rare anti-elite gauntlet 1 of 5
- Needs Tools of Torment to have a role 2 of 5
- Big base can't hide, low OC 1 of 5
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Talos140 pts | A | Top 12% | Top 11% | 13of 57 |
| Cronos55 pts | A | Top 31% | Top 1% | 36of 57 |
| Solitaire105 pts | B | Bottom 34% | Bottom 3% | 1of 57 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Talos, 2 models, 140 pts, with 2 Talos Gauntlet, 2 Twin Haywire Blaster, 2 Twin Liquifier Gun, in Skysplinter Assault. 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.
140 pts → kills ~115 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.
~597 pts → 426 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.