Infernal Master
SWORD: what Infernal Master kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 105 pts kill ~40 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 Infernal Master is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 105 pts take ~141 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· shooters
What creators say
4 creators- Strong Rubric leader 5 of 4
- Handy dice tricks and a flamer spell 3 of 4
- Price rose after the update 2 of 4
- Best only in Grand Coven 1 of 4
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infernal Master105 pts | A | Bottom 32% | Bottom 1% | 15of 103 |
| Sorcerer in Terminator Armour110 pts | B | Bottom 45% | Bottom 23% | 73of 103 |
| Exalted Sorcerer100 pts | B | Top 39% | Bottom 12% | 40of 103 |
Leading a squad
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 38 | 53 |
| SHIELD | 134 | 200 |
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 38 | 39 |
| SHIELD | 134 | 235 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Infernal Master, 105 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, in Hexwarp Thrallband (Flow of Magic: Outside 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.
105 pts → kills ~40 pts → 38 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.
~141 pts → 134 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.