Tormentors
SWORD: what Tormentors kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 85 pts kill ~62 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Emperor's Children
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Tormentors is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 85 pts take ~295 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
7 creators- Infiltrate onto objectives that stay theirs 5 of 7
- Cheap board control in nearly every list 5 of 7
- Precision guns pick off leaders 4 of 7
- Good action units for Recon and Disruption 3 of 7
- Price crept up after the update 2 of 7
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tormentors85 pts | S | Top 20% | Top 33% | 163of 180 |
| Infractors95 pts | S | Top 4% | Top 49% | 175of 180 |
| Daemonettes100 pts | C | Top 1% | Bottom 34% | 21of 180 |
With a leader
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 145 | 149 |
| SHIELD | 347 | 347 |
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 145 | 145 |
| SHIELD | 347 | 353 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Tormentors, 5 models, 85 pts, with 1 Bolt pistol, 4 Boltgun, 4 Close combat weapon, 1 Power sword, in Coterie of the Conceited (Pledges to the Dark Prince: 7+ points). 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.
85 pts → kills ~62 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.
~295 pts → 347 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 Emperor's Children tier lists: Joy's 40k channel (datasheet tier list, its dataslate review and its detachment tier list) (28 Oct), Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (dataslate review, Detachment Focus, Competitive Innovations: 5 winning lists and 22 summaries) (28 Oct), Auspex Tactics (army overview, top units, winning lists and the WTC's 36 lists) (6 Aug), 1d6chan (community 11th-edition tactics wiki, partly updated for the dataslate) (30 Oct), Grand Slam-Gaming (three of his own lists) (28 Aug), Chaos Coterie (three list builds) (12 Jul), Vanguard Tactics (the 1-DP detachments, on preview rules before points) (10 Jun). Questions? Get in touch.
Lists
180 public Emperor's Children 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.