Flamers
SWORD: what Flamers kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 65 pts kill ~34 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against light vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Thousand Sons
Across the game· shooters
SHIELD: how hard Flamers is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 65 pts take ~298 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· shooters
What reviewers say
3 reviewers- Strong defensive fire across the army 1 of 3
- Add presence and scoring in daemon lists 1 of 3
- Fragile daemon screens 1 of 3
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flamers65 pts | B | Top 28% | Top 10% | 1of 89 |
| Tzaangors75 pts | B | Bottom 24% | Top 12% | 60of 89 |
| Scarab Occult Terminators200 pts | A | Bottom 30% | Top 5% | 66of 89 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Flamers, 3 models, 65 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 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.
65 pts → kills ~34 pts → 53 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.
~298 pts → 458 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.