Imperium army
Agents of the Imperium tier list
Tier list and tournament results · 40k 11th edition
13 winning lists (the top quarter of their event, every source), Sep–Nov 2026; 15 public lists whose units we can read; 1 published in full. Updated 11 Nov.
Results
13winning lists, Sep–Nov 2026By month
Its lists in the top quarter, out of all such lists, by month; the months this page counts in bold.
Detachments
3in its 15 public listsUnits
29tiers from 10 creatorsLetter: 10 creatorsBars: our dice math
Epic Heroes9
Characters5
Battleline4
Infantry7
Transports4
B dashed: no creators yet, so it's our estimate. Each unit: its points and how many of the army's 15 public lists take it, Sep–Nov 2026.
Letters from the creators who know the game best; Damage and Toughness (SWORD and SHIELD on unit pages) from our own dice math (how we score). Lists: grimstat-corpus (CC BY 4.0), September – November 2026. Also from Listhammer, MiniHeadQuarters, ChampionsHub. Questions about a list or an event? Get in touch. Win-rate letter: ours, from Stat Check's published 11th-edition win rates, 2 Nov 2026. Sources
Creators 30 Oct · SWORD and SHIELD 2 Nov · Points and lists 11 Nov
Questions
- What are the best Agents of the Imperium units?
- The creators' average is A for Subductor Squad, Callidus Assassin, Inquisitor Coteaz, Inquisitor Draxus, Sisters of Battle Immolator, Eversor Assassin, Deathwatch Kill Team, Inquisitor, Imperial Navy Breachers, Inquisitor Kroyle, Navigator. Then B: Sisters of Battle Squad, Aquila Kill Team, Inquisitorial Agents, Inquisitorial Chimera, Inquisitor Greyfax and 4 more.
- What do the letters mean?
- Each letter is a weighted average of the letters up to 10 creators gave that unit, S to D: full reviews and tier lists count more than a single list. A dashed letter means no creator has rated the unit yet, so it's our estimate from SWORD and SHIELD only, placed among the army's creator-rated units.
- What do SWORD and SHIELD mean?
- Our own dice math against 100 top tournament lists. SWORD is the points of a top tournament army it removes per 100 of its own points each time it acts, picking its targets sensibly from a real list, with its melee counted by how often it gets into combat; SHIELD is how much of a top tournament army's turn it takes to wipe out 100 points of it, its own healing played between turns. Each comes with where it ranks among the game's units of its kind.
- Which Agents of the Imperium units do lists take most?
- Of 15 public lists: Imperial Navy Breachers (15), Subductor Squad (15), Navigator (13).
- Which Agents of the Imperium detachment do tournament lists take most?
- Veiled Blade Elimination Force: 14 of the 15 Agents of the Imperium tournament lists of September – November 2026 took it.
Sources
- Letters
- Each letter is a weighted average of the creators' letters: full reviews and tier lists count more than a single list. A dashed letter means no creator has rated that unit yet: it's our estimate, placed by SWORD and SHIELD only among the army's creator-rated units.
- SWORD and SHIELD
- Our own dice math, last run 2 Nov 2026. Both are shown scaled: SWORD is 0.8832 × the points it removes, SHIELD 2097.5 × the share of a turn, so a typical unit's SHIELD reads about 333. SWORD is the points of a top tournament army it removes per 100 of its own points each time it acts, picking its targets sensibly from a real list, with its melee counted by how often it gets into combat; SHIELD is how much of a top tournament army's turn it takes to wipe out 100 points of it, its own healing played between turns. Each is averaged over 100 top lists from the last three months, leaving out the most extreme tenth at each end; each is shown with where it ranks among the game's units of its kind (top 10%, bottom 20%): shooters beside shooters, melee units beside melee units, a unit built to support beside every unit. How we score.
- Creators
- The Agents of the Imperium creators who know the game best, each counted once: tier lists, reviews of their own lists and written reviews. Their tiers are their own, put on our S to D scale by us (their top tier S, and so on down); we show how many gave each and the letter they add up to.
- Inquisitor Varik - Ordo Tactica (tier list; the counted panel), 5 Aug 2026
- 40k Vtuber: Christian Von Carmian (state of the faction, two lists), 31 Jul 2026
- Grimdark Breakdown (Joe Sault's 5-0 GT list and interview), 17 Sep 2026
- Art of War 40k (11th Edition Competitive Tier List, Agents segment by Foldier Piles), 27 Oct 2026
- Tabletop Battles (ex-Goonhammer: September dataslate review and a praised 4th-place list), 30 Sep 2026
- Hubtown Hammer (Agents as Adeptus Custodes allies: five unit videos), 6 Oct 2026
- Brother Tobias (Agents as Ultramarines allies, three-tier stream), 2 Sep 2026
- Steve (the assassins as Space Wolves allies), 14 Aug 2026
- The Glorious Game (casual league list preview), 10 Sep 2026
- 1d6chan (community 11th-edition tactics wiki, much text carried over from 10th), 30 Oct 2026
- Lists
- 15 public Agents of the Imperium tournament lists, September – November 2026, from grimstat-corpus (CC BY 4.0). Also from Listhammer, MiniHeadQuarters, ChampionsHub. Questions about a list or an event? Get in touch.
- Win-rate letter
- Win-rate letter: ours, from Stat Check's published 11th-edition win rates, 2 Nov 2026. Cut at S 55% and over, A 52.5%, B 49%, C 46%, D below; only the letter is ours to show, never their numbers.