Lord of Change
SWORD: what Lord of Change kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 320 pts kill ~154 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100
Best against light vehicles and monsters, weakest against hordes
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· shooters
SHIELD: how hard Lord of Change is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 320 pts take ~771 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- Hits hard in daemon lists 2 of 3
- Ranged buff for nearby units 1 of 3
- Only worth it in daemon builds 3 of 3
- Losing a lone one removes the list's damage 1 of 3
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lord of Change320 pts | B | Top 39% | Bottom 22% | 4of 89 |
| Sorcerer in Terminator Armour110 pts | B | Bottom 45% | Bottom 23% | 64of 89 |
| Infernal Master105 pts | A | Bottom 32% | Bottom 1% | 12of 89 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Lord of Change, 320 pts, with 1 Rod of sorcery, 1 Staff of Tzeentch, 1 Bolt of Change - focused witchfire, 1 Bolt of Change - witchfire, 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: 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.
320 pts → kills ~154 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.
~771 pts → 241 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.