Night Scythe
SWORD: what Night Scythe kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 125 pts kill ~41 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100
Best against line infantry, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· shooters
SHIELD: how hard Night Scythe is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 125 pts take ~486 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100
What creators say
5 creators- Drops a unit forward, then scoops it back 4 of 5
- A big drop in points 1 of 5
- No longer an aircraft 1 of 5
- Utility over stats 1 of 5
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Night Scythe125 pts | B | Bottom 22% | Top 19% | 14of 320 |
| Ghost Ark100 pts | C | Bottom 2% | Top 1% | 3of 320 |
| Canoptek Doomstalker130 pts | C | Top 41% | Top 14% | 19of 320 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Night Scythe, 125 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, in Pantheon of Woe. 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.
125 pts → kills ~41 pts → 33 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.
~486 pts → 389 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 407 shooters. 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.