Kroot Trail Shaper
SWORD: what Kroot Trail Shaper kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 50 pts kill ~8 pts in one activation.Typical unit: 47 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· units
SHIELD: how hard Kroot Trail Shaper is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 50 pts take ~80 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical unit: 305 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· units
What reviewers say
2 reviewers- Redeploys its unit once targets are known 1 of 2
- Only for Kroot lists 1 of 2
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kroot Trail Shaper50 pts | B | Bottom 5% | Bottom 4% | 11of 181 |
| Firesight Team55 pts | D | Bottom 11% | Bottom 16% | 12of 181 |
| Cadre Fireblade50 pts | B | Bottom 1% | Bottom 3% | 34of 181 |
Leading a squad
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 16 | 55 |
| SHIELD | 160 | 278 |
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 16 | 40 |
| SHIELD | 160 | 269 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Kroot Trail Shaper, 50 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, in Kroot Hunting Pack. 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.
50 pts → kills ~8 pts → 16 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.
~80 pts → 160 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 930 units. 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.