Rubric Marines
SWORD: what Rubric Marines kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 210 pts kill ~105 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Thousand Sons
Across the game· shooters
SHIELD: how hard Rubric Marines is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 210 pts take ~663 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
In Thousand Sons
Across the game· shooters
What reviewers say
5 reviewers- Core battleline that fits every detachment 4 of 5
- Flamer squads punish anything that gets close 4 of 5
- Small squads bring a ritual-casting sergeant 2 of 5
- Big price rises after the balance update 3 of 5
- Stat boosts barely matter, as every marine got them 3 of 5
- Flamers stay weak into tougher marines 2 of 5
- Marines now shoot them off more easily 2 of 5
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rubric Marines210 pts | C | Top 34% | Top 43% | 69of 89 |
| Pink Horrors115 pts | C | Bottom 32% | Bottom 47% | 4of 89 |
| Blue Horrors90 pts | D | Bottom 20% | Top 21% | 0of 89 |
With a leader
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 83 | 87 |
| SHIELD | 316 | 316 |
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 83 | 84 |
| SHIELD | 316 | 316 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Rubric Marines, 10 models, 210 pts, with 9 Close combat weapon, 1 Force weapon, 1 Malefic Curse, 1 Soulreaper cannon, 1 Warpflame pistol, 8 Warpflamer, in Rubricae Phalanx. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: its own abilities, 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.
210 pts → kills ~105 pts → 50 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.
~663 pts → 316 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.