Devilfish
SWORD: what Devilfish kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 75 pts kill ~28 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 Devilfish is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 75 pts take ~450 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 creators say
4 creators- Carries Breachers up for the objective bomb 3 of 4
- A durable screen that can tag 1 of 4
- Rarely taken outside Breacher builds 2 of 4
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Devilfish75 pts | B | Bottom 31% | Top 1% | 51of 226 |
| Tidewall Gunrig90 pts | D | Bottom 11% | Top 6% | 0of 226 |
| Tidewall Droneport85 pts | D | Bottom 3% | Top 16% | 0of 226 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Devilfish, 75 pts, with 1 Accelerator burst cannon, 1 Armoured hull, 2 Seeker missile, 2 Smart missile system, in Starfire Cadre. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: 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.
75 pts → kills ~28 pts → 37 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.
~450 pts → 600 per 100Top 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.