Tesseract Vault
SWORD: what Tesseract Vault kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 465 pts kill ~51 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· shooters
SHIELD: how hard Tesseract Vault is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 465 pts take ~1213 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· shooters
What reviewers say
6 reviewers- The most durable titanic unit 1 of 6
- Can snipe with its big power 1 of 6
- Far too expensive 3 of 6
- Lost its frame, so it's easily tagged 2 of 6
- Needs a dedicated detachment 2 of 6
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tesseract Vault465 pts | C | Bottom 1% | Bottom 31% | 14of 255 |
| Monolith420 pts | C | Bottom 25% | Bottom 27% | 10of 255 |
| Obelisk280 pts | D | Bottom 4% | Top 16% | 6of 255 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Tesseract Vault, 465 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, in Starshatter Arsenal. 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.
465 pts → kills ~51 pts → 11 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.
~1213 pts → 261 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 407 shooters. How we score.
The letter
The average of 7 reviewers' 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). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.
Lists
255 public Necrons 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.