Stealth Battlesuits

Infantry · 5 models, 100 pts

Why it's takenIn 167 of 181 public listsThe most-taken T'au Empire unit · Top 22% for objective control per point · Role: Reaches the expansion

Lists92% · in 167 of 181 public lists, September – November 2026

SimulateStealth Battlesuits against any unit, in the calculator

SWORD: what Stealth Battlesuits kills

Damage for its points

43pts killed
per 100 pts spent

Its 100 pts kill ~43 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100

Best against hordes, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters

Into each enemy type

Everything43bottom 48%

Hordes ★70top 30%

Line inf.54top 47%

Heavy inf.43bottom 39%

Light veh.46bottom 45%

Heavy veh.32bottom 26%

Units near it by SWORD

In T'au Empire

Ghostkeel Battlesuit48

Commander Shadowsun46

Hammerhead Gunship44

Stealth Battlesuits43

Piranhas42

Across the game· shooters

Chaos Cerastus Knight Castigator Chaos Knights · just ahead44

Stealth Battlesuits 43

Gladiator Reaper Space Marines · level with it43

SHIELD: how hard Stealth Battlesuits is to kill for its points

Toughness for its points

274pts to kill it
per 100 pts spent

Its 100 pts take ~274 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100

For its points274bottom 38%

Units near it by SHIELD

In T'au Empire

Commander in Enforcer Battlesuit290

AX-1-0 Tiger Shark278

Stealth Battlesuits274

Kroot Lone-spear253

Stormsurge253

Across the game· shooters

Banesword Astra Militarum · just ahead275

Stealth Battlesuits 274

Knight Crusader Imperial Knights · level with it274

What reviewers say

6 reviewers

The re-roll support the army needs 5 of 6
Two in nearly every list 4 of 6
Small, so easy to keep hidden 2 of 6
Strip cover from targets 1 of 6

Weak damage on their own 1 of 6

Compare

Unit	Letter	SWORD	SHIELD	Lists
Stealth Battlesuits100 pts	S	Bottom 48%	Bottom 38%	167of 181
Pathfinder Team85 pts	S	Top 3%	Top 43%	139of 181
Vespid Stingwings70 pts	B	Top 32%	Bottom 22%	79of 181

How we got these numbers

What we ran

Stealth Battlesuits, 5 models, 100 pts, with 5 Battlesuit fists, 3 Burst cannon, 2 Fusion blaster, 1 Pulse pistol, 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.

100 pts → kills ~43 pts → 43 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.

~274 pts → 274 per 100

Top 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.