Daemon Prince of Tzeentch
SWORD: what Daemon Prince of Tzeentch kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 170 pts kill ~107 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
SHIELD: how hard Daemon Prince of Tzeentch is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 170 pts take ~555 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
In Thousand Sons
Across the game· melee units
What reviewers say
4 reviewers- Supports the Rubric detachment lists 2 of 4
- Durable psyker to keep robots animated 1 of 4
- Hurt most by the tougher marines 1 of 4
- Needs friends dying for extra casts 1 of 4
- Rarely seen in lists 1 of 4
- Stealth aura barely helps 1 of 4
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daemon Prince of Tzeentch170 pts | C | Top 34% | Top 41% | 7of 89 |
| Daemon Prince of Tzeentch with wings170 pts | B | Top 29% | Bottom 44% | 40of 89 |
| Sorcerer in Terminator Armour110 pts | B | Bottom 45% | Bottom 23% | 64of 89 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Daemon Prince of Tzeentch, 170 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.
170 pts → kills ~107 pts → 63 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.
~555 pts → 326 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 571 melee units. 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.