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I think you should take a second look at the tiefling warlords section.

I would actually put tieflings down as dark blue for resourceful warlords. Yes, the path looks like it was built with tieflings in mind since they get a bonus to both secondary stats but in practice, most resourceful warlords will favor either Int or Charisma because while there are a host of powers that benefit from one or the other, there is generally a good power that benefits from either Int or Charisma at every level. Additionally, the very good infernal strategist paragon path enables the resourceful warlord to pick up a second presence--as a consqeuence, at level 16, the resourceful warlord is going to gain a massive set of powers that benefit from only Int or only Cha. Again, since the warlord can only pick one power per opportunity, the warlord who focuses on one stat and lets the other mostly mind its own business will get more out of his powers than the one who tries to advance both secondary stats.

With that in mind, I suggest the following pre-racial stat spread is generally ideal for a resourceful warlord.
str 16,
dex who cares?,
con 11 or 12,
Int 16, 13, or 12,
Wis who cares?,
Cha 16, 13, or 12

(I suppose you could also aim for a post racial Str 16, Dex 11, Con 13, Int 16, Wis 8, Cha 16 and advance in the same manner, but I don't think it is generally as effective).

Now, tieflings can do that well, but dragonborn or genasi do it better depending upon whether the character wants to focus on Int or Cha.

It's a little frustrating to see the stat bonuses that Tieflings have given such a heavy degree of weight while classifying their value for each class. Any class that doesn't match up well, with a few exceptions, is slammed way down into the red. In my mind, that doesn't hold with the broad range of high-quality racial bonuses Tieflings get aside from the Int/Cha boost.

Just as a single example:

You were relatively fair to Tieflings in their ability to be Fighters, but I don't think that their current rating really reflects the high-quality support they've received. Starting at Hellfire Blood/Flaming Weapon to make up for the lower Strength, continuing on to the golden Lingering Wrath feat and with a very solid racial paragon path in the wings, I think there are several strong Tiefling Fighter builds out there. I don't think that Tiefling Warfiend is weighted so heavily by Constitution that it restricts the builds using it, either. (In fact, I'm not sold on the idea of the Battlerager Tiefling much at all. With lower proficiency weapons and no class bonus to hit you're playing into the weaknesses of the race.)

Tieflings have some solid mitigating factors that would make it hard to class them as red for almost any class in my opinion:

* Bloodhunt - +1 to hit bloodied enemies is just good for anybody. It can give a Tiefling Leaders attractive targets to trigger party bonuses off of and makes targeting easy for any Tiefling Strikers. Controllers (and to a lesser degree Defenders) should perhaps not be getting distracted by the smell of blood, but it's still good for them too.
* Fire Resistance - While perhaps not so important for classes that don't get hit that often, this trait is highly attractive to those that are going to be pounded on regularly...most especially Defenders. A party with a Tiefling Fighter that encounters a fire-based enemy can probably just press their "I Win" button and move on.
* Infernal Wrath - This one is more difficult to quantify. There are several feats that make it stronger, but if the class features a Tiefling is pursuing don't include Charisma investment, Infernal Wrath might not be a big deal even when it goes off. One could also argue about how many feats a Tiefling should be investing in a trick that might not be very strong for them. However, some of the feats like Lingering Wrath are so incredible that Infernal Wrath becomes a centerpoint for the build.

I could see a red rating for something like Druids perhaps. Not only are all the stat bonuses wrong, but the racial features are probably more of a distraction for a Controller. That's probably worthy of a red.

A Tiefling Battle Cleric isn't so sunk as all that, however. Bloodhunt, Fire Resistance and Infernal Wrath all work well for a Strength/Charisma Cleric build. It wouldn't be showing up as the centerpiece of threads in CharOp, but I don't think it should have to in order to avoid the red bin.

Edit: I forgot one...I don't think Tiefling Rangers are so bad off as you've rated them either. An Archery Ranger Tiefling (or even Beastmastery/Bow) wouldn't care quite so much about their lack of a Dexterity bonus in an odd sense. Most of a Tiefling bow Ranger's combat rounds would be spent using Twin Strike anyway. The slightly lower Dexterity wouldn't hurt them on the damage end of things while using Twin Strike, and with two shots they will be likely to hit at least once and trigger their Hunter's Quarry in any case. Bloodhunt is money here, as well. Once the target is bloodied, you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between a Tiefling Ranger and an Elf Ranger if both are spamming Twin Strike.

Is it a good Ranger build? No. It's far better than red though, I think.

I am pretty new to DnD. We are gonna be playing 4thed, and I'm wondering if anyone could help me in building a Tiefling Warlock. Thank you.

Thank you so much for the advice and the prompt reply. I will definitely check out the other threads as well. Oh, by the way, my DM is not happy....lol

I have found that article is made of pure awesome. Wrath of the Crimson Legion allows paladins to use CHA for melee basic attacks, as well as replacing infernal wrath with a 1/encounter divine sanction on every enemy in a burst 5. If you sanction 5 enemies, then leg it with a double move (and possibly an AP to make sure noone can get you), you can do a total of 15+5xCHA mod damage in a single round (that's up to 40 damage at 1st level).