Screamers
SWORD: what Screamers kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 80 pts kill ~65 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against heavy vehicles and monsters, weakest against hordes
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Screamers is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 80 pts take ~294 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· melee units
What reviewers say
3 reviewers- Real damage against vehicles 2 of 3
- Flood objectives cheaply 2 of 3
- Frail little body 1 of 3
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Screamers80 pts | A | Top 13% | Top 25% | 2of 89 |
| Chaos Spawn65 pts | C | Bottom 23% | Top 1% | 51of 89 |
| Chaos Spawn (Flesh Change)65 pts | D | Bottom 7% | Top 11% | 0of 89 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Screamers, 3 models, 80 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 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.
80 pts → kills ~65 pts → 81 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.
~294 pts → 368 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 571 melee 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.