Chaos Acastus Knight Porphyrion
SWORD: what Chaos Acastus Knight Porphyrion kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 725 pts kill ~174 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100
Best against heavy vehicles and monsters, weakest against hordes
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Chaos Knights
Across the game· shooters
SHIELD: how hard Chaos Acastus Knight Porphyrion is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 725 pts take ~1753 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· shooters
What creators say
3 creators- Shoots hard when stationary 1 of 3
- Titanic, so it acts and shoots freely 1 of 3
- Brought by one player to one event 1 of 3
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chaos Acastus Knight Porphyrion725 pts | C | Bottom 8% | Bottom 23% | 0of 94 |
| War Dog Brigand135 pts | S | Top 50% | Top 22% | 77of 94 |
| War Dog Executioner130 pts | S | Top 45% | Top 18% | 81of 94 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Chaos Acastus Knight Porphyrion, 725 pts, with 1 Helios defence missiles, 2 Lascannon, 1 Titanic feet, 2 Twin magna lascannon, in Infernal Lance (Malefic Surge: Unnatural Fortitude: FNP 6+). On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: its own abilities, the army rule and the detachment's rule.
SWORD
Enemy points it kills in one activation, per 100 pts of its own, against a mix of targets weighted like top tournament lists.
725 pts → kills ~174 pts → 24 per 100SHIELD
Enemy points it takes to kill it, per 100 pts of its own: the points of the cheapest units from top lists that kill it 80% of the time. It's per point, so a costly unit has to be much tougher to score the same.
~1753 pts → 242 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 407 shooters. How we score.
The letter
The average of 7 creators' newest Chaos Knights tier lists: Recon By Fire (Knight Intelligence weekly meta watches, 22 and 27 Oct, with 3 Sep's and the War Dog tactics video) (27 Oct), Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (September dataslate review; Competitive Innovations: 2 full lists and 14 summaries, 8 after the dataslate) (24 Oct), Dewgong444 (September dataslate review and his LVO Houndpack list, 4-2) (16 Oct), MevanStudios (detachment tier list, 19 Sep; knights essay 16 Oct) (19 Sep), Tyrant King (his 26-game Lords of Dread/Bastions list and a Hellhunt double battle cannon Despoiler idea) (30 Sep), Vanguard Tactics (competitive breakdown of the 1-DP detachments, preview rules before points) (15 Jun), 1d6chan (community 11th-edition tactics wiki, much text carried over from 10th) (30 Oct). Questions? Get in touch.
Lists
94 public Chaos Knights 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. Numbers run 2 Nov.