Sorcerer
SWORD: what Sorcerer kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 100 pts kill ~35 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
Across the game· shooters
SHIELD: how hard Sorcerer is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 100 pts take ~141 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· shooters
What reviewers say
5 reviewers- Staple leader for Rubric squads 6 of 5
- Psychic gun boosted by detachments 2 of 5
- Great riding in a Rhino 2 of 5
- Enhancements can deep strike his squad 2 of 5
- Price crept up after the update 3 of 5
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sorcerer100 pts | A | Bottom 25% | Bottom 1% | 49of 89 |
| Exalted Sorcerer100 pts | B | Top 39% | Bottom 12% | 35of 89 |
| Infernal Master105 pts | A | Bottom 32% | Bottom 1% | 12of 89 |
Leading a squad
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 35 | 54 |
| SHIELD | 141 | 204 |
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 35 | 43 |
| SHIELD | 141 | 242 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Sorcerer, 100 pts, with 1 Force weapon, 1 Inferno bolt pistol, 1 Pandaemonic Delusion, in Hexwarp Thrallband (Flow of Magic: Outside Flow of Magic). 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.
100 pts → kills ~35 pts → 35 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 → 141 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.