Scarab Occult Terminators
SWORD: what Scarab Occult Terminators kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 200 pts kill ~78 pts in one activation.Typical unit: 48 per 100
Best against line infantry, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Thousand Sons
Across the game· units
SHIELD: how hard Scarab Occult Terminators is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 200 pts take ~1038 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical unit: 306 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· units
What reviewers say
5 reviewers- Very hard to shift, with built-in damage reduction 5 of 5
- Hits hard enough to delete most units 4 of 5
- Deep strike or infiltrate onto objectives 4 of 5
- Backbone of winning lists 3 of 5
- Heavy price rises make them very expensive 5 of 5
- Blades fell behind against tougher marines 1 of 5
- Low objective control for holding ground 1 of 5
- Leave too few units when taken with Magnus 1 of 5
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarab Occult Terminators200 pts | A | Bottom 30% | Top 5% | 66of 89 |
| Tzaangors75 pts | B | Bottom 24% | Top 12% | 60of 89 |
| Flamers65 pts | B | Top 28% | Top 10% | 1of 89 |
With a leader
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 66 | 70 |
| SHIELD | 519 | 519 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Scarab Occult Terminators, 5 models, 200 pts, with 1 Force weapon, 4 Inferno combi-bolter, 1 Malefic Curse, 4 Prosperine khopesh, 1 Soulreaper cannon, 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.
200 pts → kills ~78 pts → 39 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.
~1038 pts → 519 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.