Chronomancer

Character · 70 pts

Why it's takenIn 16 of 320 public listsThe 37th most-taken Necrons unit · Role: Bought for what it gives its squad

Lists5% · in 16 of 320 public lists, September – November 2026

SimulateChronomancer against any unit, in the calculator

SWORD: what Chronomancer kills

Damage for its points

14pts killed
per 100 pts spent

Its 70 pts kill ~10 pts in one activation.Typical unit: 47 per 100

Best against hordes, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters

Into each enemy type

Everything14bottom 4%

Hordes ★34bottom 19%

Line inf.25bottom 7%

Heavy inf.13bottom 3%

Light veh.11bottom 3%

Heavy veh.7bottom 3%

Units near it by SWORD

In Necrons

Chronomancer14

Across the game· units

Commissar Astra Militarum · just ahead15

Chronomancer 14

Imperial Rhino Agents of the Imperium · level with it14

SHIELD: how hard Chronomancer is to kill for its points

Toughness for its points

240pts to kill it
per 100 pts spent

Its 70 pts take ~168 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical unit: 305 per 100

For its points240bottom 20%

Units near it by SHIELD

In Necrons

Royal Warden270

Tesseract Vault261

Monolith255

Chronomancer240

Tomb Blades236

Across the game· units

Fortis Kill Team Space Marines · just ahead241

Chronomancer 240

Stormraven Gunship Grey Knights · level with it240

What creators say

6 creators

Good with Immortals or Lokhusts 2 of 6
Moves, shoots and moves again 1 of 6

Nerfed: its defence got weaker 3 of 6
The Plasmancer is preferred for damage 1 of 6

Compare

Unit	Letter	SWORD	SHIELD	Lists
Chronomancer70 pts	B	Bottom 4%	Bottom 20%	16of 320
Psychomancer65 pts	C	Bottom 5%	Bottom 3%	2of 320
Technomancer80 pts	A	Bottom 3%	Bottom 1%	141of 320

Leading a squad

Leading Skorpekh Destroyers155 pts together

	Solo	Leading
SWORD	14	51
SHIELD	240	359

Leading Immortals200 pts together

	Solo	Leading
SWORD	14	40
SHIELD	240	360

Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.

How we got these numbers

What we ran

Chronomancer, 70 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, in Canoptek Court. 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.

70 pts → kills ~10 pts → 14 per 100

SHIELD

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.

~168 pts → 240 per 100

Top and bottom %

Where each number ranks among the game's 930 units. How we score.

The letter

The average of 7 creators' newest Necrons tier lists: Auspex Tactics (Necrons unit tier list, 11th edition) (28 Oct), Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (dataslate review and Competitive Innovations, 2 to 24 Oct: 6 full lists and 8 summaries) (24 Oct), Planet 40K (units used less, best detachment combinations, his 2,000-point list; combined) (26 Oct), PNW 40K (11th-edition tier list, moved by his dataslate-day stream) (1 Oct), Silvertide Tactics (every Necron unit ranked, S to D) (19 Jul), IDICBeer 40k (best Necron anti-tank units, ranked) (6 Oct), 1d6chan (community 11th-edition tactics wiki, partly updated for the dataslate) (30 Oct). Questions? Get in touch.

Lists

320 public Necrons 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.