Chaos Rhino
SWORD: what Chaos Rhino kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 80 pts kill ~22 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 Chaos Rhino is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 80 pts take ~362 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· shooters
What reviewers say
5 reviewers- Marks a target for the psyker stepping out 2 of 5
- Delivers flamer Rubrics and lets sorcerers shoot out 3 of 5
- Sturdy box for doing actions 3 of 5
- Showing up more in recent winning lists 1 of 5
- Fragile, and its loss hurts the squad inside 1 of 5
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chaos Rhino80 pts | B | Bottom 11% | Top 10% | 35of 89 |
| Chaos Land Raider220 pts | D | Bottom 47% | Top 26% | 0of 89 |
| Sekhetar Robots85 pts | A | Top 1% | Top 31% | 45of 89 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Chaos Rhino, 80 pts, with 1 Armoured tracks, 1 Havoc launcher, 2 Inferno combi-bolter, in Warpforged Cabal (Warpfire Infusion: Within 6" of a psyker). 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.
80 pts → kills ~22 pts → 27 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.
~362 pts → 453 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 404 shooters. How we score.
The letter
The average of 5 reviewers' 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). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.
Lists
89 public Thousand Sons 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 4 Nov.