Krootox Riders
SWORD: what Krootox Riders kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 45 pts kill ~29 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In T'au Empire
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Krootox Riders is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 45 pts take ~173 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· melee units
What reviewers say
5 reviewers- A strong ranged and melee workhorse 1 of 5
- Very cheap action piece 2 of 5
- Little damage for the cost 2 of 5
- Rarely in winning lists 2 of 5
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Krootox Riders45 pts | C | Top 32% | Top 21% | 15of 181 |
| Krootox Rampagers170 pts | C | Top 7% | Top 13% | 24of 181 |
| Kroot Flesh Shaper45 pts | C | Bottom 12% | Bottom 5% | 9of 181 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Krootox Riders, 45 pts, with 1 Close combat weapon, 1 Krootox fists, 1 Tanglecannon, 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.
45 pts → kills ~29 pts → 65 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.
~173 pts → 384 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 572 melee 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.