Breacher Team
SWORD: what Breacher Team kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 80 pts kill ~75 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against light vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In T'au Empire
Across the game· shooters
SHIELD: how hard Breacher Team is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 80 pts take ~268 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
In T'au Empire
Across the game· shooters
What reviewers say
6 reviewers- Breachers in a Devilfish are an objective-control bomb 2 of 6
- Got cheaper at the update 3 of 6
- Good damage into xenos and daemons 3 of 6
- Short range is awkward 1 of 6
- Bounces off marine and Custodes armour 1 of 6
- Rare at the big events 2 of 6
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breacher Team80 pts | B | Top 1% | Top 33% | 43of 181 |
| Strike Team70 pts | C | Bottom 16% | Top 17% | 22of 181 |
| Commander in Enforcer Battlesuit80 pts | A | Top 18% | Bottom 46% | 127of 181 |
With a leader
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 177 | 212 |
| SHIELD | 335 | 335 |
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 177 | 177 |
| SHIELD | 335 | 409 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Breacher Team, 10 models, 80 pts, with 10 Close combat weapon, 10 Pulse blaster, 10 Pulse pistol, 1 Support turret, in Starfire Cadre. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: its own abilities, the army rule 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.
80 pts → kills ~75 pts → 94 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.
~268 pts → 335 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 407 shooters. How we score.
The letter
The average of 8 reviewers' newest T'au Empire tier lists: 6 Plus Plus Gaming (unit tier list, with its pinned comment) (13 Oct), Tau Tactics (meta watch of five top-cut lists from LVO and LGT) (4 Oct), Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (Competitive Innovations: 5 full post-dataslate winning lists and 16 summaries) (23 Oct), WednesdayNightWarhammer (State of the Empire, dataslate review; few units graded) (2 Oct), Puretide Program (WTC 2026 meta analysis: unit counts across the T'au lists) (6 Aug), Tawnis Tactics (Learn to Play Kroot: unit review inside Kroot Hunting Pack) (5 Sep), Invasive Wargaming (damage per point mathhammer after the July update) (28 Jul), Vanguard Tactics (competitive breakdown of the 1-DP detachments on preview rules; unit views inferred) (15 Jun). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.
Lists
181 public T'au Empire 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.