Exalted Sorcerer
SWORD: what Exalted Sorcerer kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 100 pts kill ~48 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100
Best against line infantry, weakest against light vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· shooters
SHIELD: how hard Exalted Sorcerer is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 100 pts take ~213 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100
What creators say
4 creators- Heals and protects the squad he leads 3 of 4
- Key piece in the regeneration detachments 2 of 4
- Price rose after the update 2 of 4
- His revival enhancement was nerfed 1 of 4
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exalted Sorcerer100 pts | B | Top 39% | Bottom 12% | 40of 103 |
| Sorcerer100 pts | A | Bottom 25% | Bottom 1% | 55of 103 |
| Infernal Master105 pts | A | Bottom 32% | Bottom 1% | 15of 103 |
Leading a squad
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 48 | 53 |
| SHIELD | 213 | 256 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Exalted Sorcerer, 100 pts, with 1 Astral Blast, 1 Force weapon, 1 Inferno bolt pistol, 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.
100 pts → kills ~48 pts → 48 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.
~213 pts → 213 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 404 shooters. 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.