Tzaangors
SWORD: what Tzaangors kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 75 pts kill ~32 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against light vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Thousand Sons
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Tzaangors is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 75 pts take ~317 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
5 reviewers- Cheap screen that redeploys and holds home objectives 3 of 5
- Move up the board early 2 of 5
- Strong at holding objectives in big blocks 1 of 5
- Swingy in combat 1 of 5
- Could be cheaper 1 of 5
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tzaangors75 pts | B | Bottom 24% | Top 12% | 60of 89 |
| Flamers65 pts | B | Top 28% | Top 10% | 1of 89 |
| Scarab Occult Terminators200 pts | A | Bottom 30% | Top 5% | 66of 89 |
With a leader
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 105 | 138 |
| SHIELD | 423 | 423 |
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 105 | 137 |
| SHIELD | 423 | 423 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Tzaangors, 10 models, 75 pts, with 10 Autopistol, 10 Chainsword, 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.
75 pts → kills ~32 pts → 43 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.
~317 pts → 423 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.