Forgefiend
SWORD: what Forgefiend kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 135 pts kill ~86 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100
Best against heavy infantry, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
SHIELD: how hard Forgefiend is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 135 pts take ~505 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· shooters
What reviewers say
4 reviewers- Shooting that also suppresses the target 3 of 4
- Good into infantry bricks 2 of 4
- Price untouched by the update 2 of 4
- Autocannons weaker into tougher marines 1 of 4
- Output too close to a Defiler for the cost 1 of 4
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forgefiend135 pts | B | Top 15% | Top 22% | 24of 89 |
| Chaos Predator Annihilator140 pts | C | Top 42% | Top 44% | 5of 89 |
| Chaos Predator Destructor140 pts | C | Top 28% | Top 44% | 1of 89 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Forgefiend, 135 pts, with 3 Ectoplasma cannon, 1 Forgefiend claws, in Warpforged Cabal (Warpfire Infusion: Within 6" of a psyker). On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: its own abilities 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.
135 pts → kills ~86 pts → 64 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.
~505 pts → 374 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.