Heldrake
SWORD: what Heldrake kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 175 pts kill ~81 pts in one activation.Typical unit: 48 per 100
Best against line infantry, weakest against hordes
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Thousand Sons
Across the game· units
SHIELD: how hard Heldrake is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 175 pts take ~434 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical unit: 306 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
In Thousand Sons
Across the game· units
What reviewers say
3 reviewers- Still overpriced for what it does 1 of 3
- A meme pick, rarely seen 1 of 3
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heldrake175 pts | D | Bottom 45% | Bottom 23% | 0of 89 |
| Defiler300 pts | A | Top 29% | Bottom 16% | 27of 89 |
| Chaos Vindicator185 pts | C | Top 45% | Top 49% | 1of 89 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Heldrake, 175 pts, with 1 Baleflamer, 1 Heldrake 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: 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.
175 pts → kills ~81 pts → 46 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.
~434 pts → 248 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 935 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.