Ahriman
SWORD: what Ahriman kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 105 pts kill ~64 pts in one activation.Typical unit: 48 per 100
Best against heavy infantry, weakest against light vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· units
SHIELD: how hard Ahriman is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 105 pts take ~223 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical unit: 306 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· units
What creators say
4 creators- Redeploys units after seeing the enemy set-up 3 of 4
- Casts early rituals 2 of 4
- Eases the army's low unit count 1 of 4
- Almost never seen in competitive lists 2 of 4
- Too costly just to move units 2 of 4
- Adds little to a unit he joins 1 of 4
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ahriman105 pts | C | Top 28% | Bottom 12% | 20of 103 |
| Magnus the Red455 pts | S | Bottom 28% | Bottom 22% | 55of 103 |
| Kairos Fateweaver305 pts | D | Bottom 37% | Bottom 39% | 2of 103 |
Leading a squad
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 61 | 62 |
| SHIELD | 212 | 212 |
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 61 | 57 |
| SHIELD | 212 | 206 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Ahriman, 105 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, in Hexwarp Thrallband (Flow of Magic: Wholly in Flow of Magic). 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.
105 pts → kills ~64 pts → 61 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.
~223 pts → 212 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 935 units. How we score.
The letter
The average of 5 creators' newest Thousand Sons tier lists: Redundant Rolling (tier list and unit videos to 20 Oct) (20 Oct), Phyllain (meta watch of seven 4-1 lists, dataslate day, July update) (25 Oct), Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (dataslate review, Detachment Focus, Competitive Innovations: 1 full list and 8 summaries) (30 Oct), Grand Slam Gaming (three of his own 2,000-point lists) (21 Aug), 1d6chan (community 11th-edition tactics wiki, much text carried over from 10th) (30 Oct). Questions? Get in touch.
Lists
103 public Thousand Sons 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 4 Nov.