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T'au Empire tier list

Tier list and tournament results · 40k 11th edition

Winning lists1897 top-3 finishes
Best finish1st of 12Kielecki Exterminatus 1.0

189 winning lists (the top quarter of their event, every source), Sep–Nov 2026; 226 public lists whose units we can read; 11 published in full. Updated 11 Nov.

Results

189winning lists, Sep–Nov 2026
3rdof 28FWC n84Experimental Prototype Cadre and Kauyon31 Oct ›6thof 33La Rennes du Warp IVExperimental Prototype Cadre and Kauyon31 Oct ›3rdof 12Grill&Hammer na SzmaragdzieMont’ka24 Oct ›Lists we can show: 11 ›
By month
Jun●●●●●●●●●●●11 of 137
Jul●●●●●●●●●●●●+112 of 1579
Aug●●●●●●●●●●●●+118 of 2067
Sep●●●●●●●●●●●●+98 of 1901
Oct●●●●●●●●●●●●+75 of 1942
Nov●●●●●●●●●●●●+16 of 449

Its lists in the top quarter, out of all such lists, by month; the months this page counts in bold.

Detachments

7in its 226 public lists
Retaliation Cadre97 lists ›Kauyon66 lists ›Experimental Prototype Cadre55 lists ›Mont'ka43 lists ›Kroot Hunting Pack16 lists ›
Show 2 moreAdvanced Acquisition Cadre11 lists ›Auxiliary Cadre6 lists ›

Units

43tiers from 8 creators

Letter: 8 creatorsBars: our dice math

Epic Heroes4

The Twin Lance240 pts · 191 listsStop 8%bottom 33%Commander Farsight70 pts · 147 listsAtop 2%top 16%Darkstrider60 pts · 80 listsBbottom 2%bottom 1%Commander Shadowsun100 pts · 38 listsBtop 47%bottom 13%

Characters9

Commander in Coldstar Battlesuit95 pts · 172 listsAtop 37%bottom 6%Commander in Enforcer Battlesuit80 pts · 160 listsAtop 9%bottom 22%Kroot Lone-spear80 pts · 20 listsBbottom 20%bottom 9%Kroot War Shaper60 pts · 16 listsBbottom 4%bottom 1%
Show 5 moreCadre Fireblade50 pts · 42 listsBbottom 21%bottom 1%Kroot Trail Shaper50 pts · 17 listsBbottom 2%bottom 1%Ethereal50 pts · 36 listsBbottom 11%bottom 3%Kroot Flesh Shaper45 pts · 14 listsCbottom 5%bottom 1%Firesight Team55 pts · 13 listsDbottom 15%bottom 7%

Battleline2

Breacher Team80 pts · 55 listsBtop 1%bottom 49%Strike Team70 pts · 25 listsCtop 20%top 24%

Infantry5

Pathfinder Team85 pts · 178 listsStop 1%bottom 42%Stealth Battlesuits100 pts · 207 listsSbottom 24%bottom 26%Vespid Stingwings70 pts · 102 listsBbottom 46%bottom 15%Kroot Carnivores65 pts · 89 listsBbottom 22%bottom 47%
Show 1 moreKroot Farstalkers75 pts · 23 listsCtop 32%top 49%

Mounted2

Krootox Rampagers170 pts · 28 listsCtop 10%top 20%Krootox Riders45 pts · 18 listsCbottom 37%bottom 29%

Vehicles15

Broadside Battlesuits150 pts · 130 listsAtop 16%top 19%Crisis Starscythe Battlesuits100 pts · 160 listsAtop 20%bottom 46%Crisis Sunforge Battlesuits125 pts · 162 listsAtop 12%bottom 48%Crisis Fireknife Battlesuits100 pts · 168 listsAtop 3%bottom 46%
Show 11 moreGhostkeel Battlesuit150 pts · 93 listsAbottom 46%top 11%Piranhas65 pts · 64 listsBbottom 21%bottom 39%Riptide Battlesuit190 pts · 84 listsBtop 27%top 30%Hammerhead Gunship150 pts · 58 listsBtop 24%top 30%Ta'unar Supremacy Armour790 ptsBbottom 26%bottom 34%AX-1-0 Tiger Shark315 ptsBbottom 15%top 14%Tiger Shark395 pts · 8 listsCbottom 39%top 32%Sky Ray Gunship140 pts · 26 listsCtop 27%top 21%Stormsurge375 pts · 11 listsCbottom 44%top 40%Razorshark Strike Fighter160 pts · 2 listsDtop 22%top 7%Sun Shark Bomber150 ptsDtop 24%top 13%

Transports5

Devilfish75 pts · 51 listsBbottom 18%top 1%Manta2100 ptsBbottom 4%top 24%Tidewall Gunrig90 ptsBbottom 2%top 7%Tidewall Droneport85 ptsCbottom 1%top 21%
Show 1 moreTidewall Shieldline85 ptsDbottom 1%top 15%

Other1

Kroot Hounds65 pts · 32 listsCbottom 12%bottom 48%

B dashed: no creators yet, so it's our estimate. Each unit: its points and how many of the army's 226 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 23 Oct · SWORD and SHIELD 2 Nov · Points and lists 11 Nov

Questions
What are the best T'au Empire units?
The creators' average is S for Pathfinder Team, The Twin Lance, Stealth Battlesuits. Then A: Broadside Battlesuits, Commander in Coldstar Battlesuit, Crisis Starscythe Battlesuits, Commander Farsight, Crisis Sunforge Battlesuits and 3 more.
What do the letters mean?
Each letter is a weighted average of the letters up to 8 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 T'au Empire units do lists take most?
Of 226 public lists: Stealth Battlesuits (207), The Twin Lance (191), Pathfinder Team (178).
Which T'au Empire detachment do tournament lists take most?
Retaliation Cadre: 97 of the 226 T'au Empire 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 T'au Empire 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.Questions? Get in touch.
Lists
226 public T'au Empire 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.