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Tzaangor Enlightened

Mounted · 3 models, 50 pts
Lists43% · in 38 of 89 public lists, September – November 2026
SimulateTzaangor Enlightened against any unit, in the calculator

SWORD: what Tzaangor Enlightened kills

Damage for its points

84pts killed
per 100 pts spent

Its 50 pts kill ~42 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100

Best against line infantry, weakest against hordes

Into each enemy type

Everything84top 10%
Hordes80top 26%
Line inf. ★89top 20%
Heavy inf.86top 18%
Light veh.87top 15%
Heavy veh.85top 17%
Units near it by SWORD

In Thousand Sons

Tzaangor Enlightened84

Across the game· melee units

Mandrakes Drukhari · just ahead85
Tzaangor Enlightened 84
Karanak Chaos Daemons · level with it84

SHIELD: how hard Tzaangor Enlightened is to kill for its points

Toughness for its points

386pts to kill it
per 100 pts spent

Its 50 pts take ~193 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100

For its points386top 20%
Units near it by SHIELD

In Thousand Sons

Tzaangor Enlightened386

Across the game· melee units

Vashtorr the Arkifane Chaos Space Marines · just ahead387
Tzaangor Enlightened 386
Saint Celestine Adepta Sororitas · level with it386

What reviewers say

5 reviewers
  • Cheap fast bodies for actions and screening 5 of 5
  • Steal objectives late 1 of 5
  • Poor in melee, and die when they arrive 1 of 5
  • The bow version is the one to take 2 of 5
  • Expected to die every turn 1 of 5

Compare

UnitLetterSWORDSHIELDLists
Tzaangor Enlightened50 ptsCTop 10%Top 20%38of 89
Tzaangor Enlightened with Fatecaster greatbows55 ptsBTop 26%Top 28%56of 89
Chaos Spawn65 ptsCBottom 23%Top 1%51of 89

With a leader

Led by Tzaangor ShamanSWORD into its best target
SoloLed
SWORD116146
SHIELD386386
Led by AhrimanSWORD into its best target
SoloLed
SWORD116116
SHIELD386386

Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.

How we got these numbers

What we ran

Tzaangor Enlightened, 3 models, 50 pts, with 3 Divining spear, in Warpmeld Pact. 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.

50 pts → kills ~42 pts → 84 per 100

SHIELD

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.

~193 pts → 386 per 100

Top 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.