The Silent King
SWORD: what The Silent King kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 420 pts kill ~172 pts in one activation.Typical unit: 48 per 100
Best against heavy vehicles and monsters, weakest against hordes
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Necrons
Across the game· units
SHIELD: how hard The Silent King is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 420 pts take ~1244 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical unit: 305 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· units
What reviewers say
6 reviewers- His re-roll aura helps the whole army 4 of 6
- Enormously hard to kill 2 of 6
- A late-game beatstick 1 of 6
- Costs far too much 3 of 6
- Not an auto-include 2 of 6
- Only fits Starshatter or Obeisance 2 of 6
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Silent King420 pts | B | Bottom 34% | Bottom 45% | 48of 255 |
| C'tan Shard of the Nightbringer360 pts | A | Bottom 24% | Top 18% | 117of 255 |
| C'tan Shard of the Void Dragon345 pts | S | Bottom 32% | Top 13% | 165of 255 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
The Silent King, 3 models, 420 pts, with 2 Annihilator beam, 2 Armoured bulk, 1 Sceptre of Eternal Glory, 1 Staff of Stars, 1 Weapons of the Final Triarch, in Obeisance Phalanx. 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.
420 pts → kills ~172 pts → 41 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.
~1244 pts → 296 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 939 units. 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.