Is Magnus The Red good in Thousand Sons?

A leader: no solo tier by design — its value is the measured delta it adds to the unit it joins.

How much damage does Magnus The Red put out for its points?

Per 100 points, expected damage of 2.4 into light infantry, 2.1 into elites and 2 into vehicles, at the default loadout; removing 100 points of it costs the enemy about 329.5 points of shooting.

Analysis → Thousand Sons → Magnus The Red

Magnus The Red

Warhammer 40,000 11th edition · Thousand Sons · measured datasheet analysis

Character

No solo tier, by design: a leader's value is what it adds to the unit it joins. The pairings below carry the numbers.

Measured, per 100 points spent on this unit	Value
Damage into light infantry Wounds the default guns and fists are expected to deal, in one full turn, to cheap 1-wound bodies — our reference horde and infantry targets.	2.4
Damage into elites Same measure against tough multi-wound infantry with good saves — think heavy armoured veterans and terminator-grade bodies.	2.1
Damage into vehicles Same measure against tanks and monsters — high toughness, many wounds. The anti-tank column of the codex.	2
Staying power Points of enemy shooting (averaged over 6 reference gun profiles) needed to put 100 points of this unit in the case. Higher = tougher per point.	329.5
Objective control Printed OC across the unit, per 100 points — raw ability to out-number an objective. Ties deny, so more total OC is how you take ground.	1.4
Nerve Chance (%) the unit passes a battle-shock test. Below half strength, a failed test zeroes its OC — a big squad with weak nerve can hold nothing at the worst moment.	83%
Kill points conceded Victory points the enemy’s kill-based secondary missions can bank when this unit dies (big squads, big models and characters all pay extra).	2.3

At 1 model for 435 points, default loadout. Modelled: 100% of this sheet's printed abilities carry a typed verdict.

Ranged
Melee

What Magnus The Red actually removes, per 100 points, against the 3 reference target classes.

Computed at 1 model for 435 points, default loadout, against gallery v1.0.0.

Detachments that pay this sheet

Detachment	Rule	Measured effect
Hexwarp Thrallband	Flow of Magic	+17% output (always on wound rolls of 1; more inside the Flow)

What the model cannot price yet

Lord of the Planet of the Sorcerers (Psychic) — army-rule-reliability
Unearthly Power — unmodelled

Numbers re-derive from the published datasheet model (gallery v1.0.0, corpus snapshot 2026-05-09 23:42:21). Unit names are used nominatively; all characteristics shown are our own derived measurements.