Commander Shadowsun

Epic Hero · 100 pts

Lists17% · in 38 of 226 public lists, September – November 2026

SimulateCommander Shadowsun against any unit, in the calculator

SWORD: what Commander Shadowsun kills

Damage for its points

46pts killed
per 100 pts spent

Its 100 pts kill ~46 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100

Best against light vehicles and monsters, weakest against heavy infantry

Into each enemy type

Everything46top 45%

Hordes49bottom 45%

Line inf.50bottom 46%

Heavy inf.46bottom 46%

Light veh. ★53top 39%

Heavy veh.47top 48%

Units near it by SWORD

In T'au Empire

Crisis Starscythe Battlesuits50

Ghostkeel Battlesuit48

Commander Shadowsun46

Hammerhead Gunship44

Stealth Battlesuits43

Across the game· shooters

Impulsor Space Marines · just ahead47

Commander Shadowsun 46

Hellblaster Squad Space Marines · level with it46

SHIELD: how hard Commander Shadowsun is to kill for its points

Toughness for its points

236pts to kill it
per 100 pts spent

Its 100 pts take ~236 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100

For its points236bottom 20%

Units near it by SHIELD

In T'au Empire

The Twin Lance245

Vespid Stingwings241

Commander Shadowsun236

Firesight Team224

Tiger Shark222

Across the game· shooters

Defiler Chaos Space Marines · just ahead238

Commander Shadowsun 236

Acolyte Hybrids with Hand Flamers Genestealer Cults · level with it236

What creators say

5 creators

A lone operative with a useful re-roll aura 2 of 5
Seen in the Experimental Prototype lists 2 of 5

Dies fast under fire 1 of 5
Command point refund is unreliable 1 of 5

Compare

Unit	Letter	SWORD	SHIELD	Lists
Commander Shadowsun100 pts	B	Top 45%	Bottom 20%	38of 226
The Twin Lance240 pts	S	Top 24%	Bottom 23%	191of 226
Commander Farsight70 pts	A	Top 13%	Top 8%	147of 226

How we got these numbers

What we ran

Commander Shadowsun, 100 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, in Retaliation 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.

100 pts → kills ~46 pts → 46 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.

~236 pts → 236 per 100

Top and bottom %

Where each number ranks among the game's 407 shooters. How we score.

The letter

The average of 8 creators' 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). Questions? Get in touch.

Lists

226 public T'au Empire 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.