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Thousand Sons tier list
Tier list and tournament results · 40k 11th edition
Winning lists884 top-3 finishes
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88 winning lists (the top quarter of their event, every source), Sep–Nov 2026; 103 public lists whose units we can read; 5 published in full. Updated 11 Nov.
Results
88winning lists, Sep–Nov 20269thof 44Limoges WargamesGrand Coven24 Oct ›2ndof 2010.10. aździernikowa 40k by Mr. PuggyRubricae Phalanx10 Oct ›2ndof 10Turniej na kt w DżingwinieRubricae Phalanx10 Oct ›Lists we can show: 5 ›
By month
Jun●●●●●●●●●●●●+14 of 137
Jul●●●●●●●●●●●●+80 of 1579
Aug●●●●●●●●●●●●+78 of 2067
Sep●●●●●●●●●●●●+52 of 1901
Oct●●●●●●●●●●●●+32 of 1942
Nov●●●●4 of 449
Its lists in the top quarter, out of all such lists, by month; the months this page counts in bold.
Detachments
9in its 103 public listsUnits
35tiers from 5 creatorsLetter: 5 creatorsBars: our dice math
Epic Heroes3
Characters9
Infernal Master105 pts · 15 listsAbottom 24%bottom 1%Sorcerer100 pts · 55 listsAbottom 36%bottom 1%Daemon Prince of Tzeentch with wings170 pts · 46 listsBtop 19%top 47%Sorcerer in Terminator Armour110 pts · 73 listsBbottom 32%bottom 15%
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Lord of Change320 pts · 37 listsBtop 19%bottom 46%Exalted Sorcerer100 pts · 40 listsBbottom 32%bottom 10%Tzaangor Shaman65 pts · 18 listsBbottom 17%bottom 4%Exalted Sorcerer on Disc of Tzeentch95 pts · 26 listsCbottom 38%bottom 15%Daemon Prince of Tzeentch170 pts · 9 listsCbottom 46%top 28%Battleline3
Infantry3
Mounted2
Monsters1
Vehicles9
Transports2
Other3
B dashed: no creators yet, so it's our estimate. Each unit: its points and how many of the 191 Space Marines-codex lists, chapters included 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 4 Nov · Points and lists 11 Nov
Questions
- What are the best Thousand Sons units?
- The creators' average is S for Magnus the Red, Defiler. Then A: Sekhetar Robots, Scarab Occult Terminators, Infernal Master, Mutalith Vortex Beast, Sorcerer.
- What do the letters mean?
- Each letter is a weighted average of the letters up to 5 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 Thousand Sons units do lists take most?
- Of 184 Space Marines-codex lists, chapters included: Chaos Rhino (92), Defiler (92), Rubric Marines (81).
- Which Thousand Sons detachment do tournament lists take most?
- Grand Coven: 46 of the 103 Thousand Sons 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 4 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 Thousand Sons 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.
- Redundant Rolling (tier list and unit videos to 20 Oct), 20 Oct 2026
- Phyllain (meta watch of seven 4-1 lists, dataslate day, July update), 25 Oct 2026
- Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (dataslate review, Detachment Focus, Competitive Innovations: 1 full list and 8 summaries), 30 Oct 2026
- Grand Slam Gaming (three of his own 2,000-point lists), 21 Aug 2026
- 1d6chan (community 11th-edition tactics wiki, much text carried over from 10th), 30 Oct 2026
- Lists
- 103 public Thousand Sons 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.