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Chaos Cerastus Knight Castigator

Character · 370 pts
Why it's takenTop 44% for objective control per pointOC 2.7 per 100 pts
Lists– (one list or none, September – November 2026)
SimulateChaos Cerastus Knight Castigator against any unit, in the calculator

SWORD: what Chaos Cerastus Knight Castigator kills

Damage for its points

44pts killed
per 100 pts spent

Its 370 pts kill ~163 pts in one activation.Typical unit: 48 per 100

Best against heavy vehicles and monsters, weakest against hordes

Into each enemy type

Everything44bottom 41%
Hordes37bottom 23%
Line inf.47bottom 34%
Heavy inf.48bottom 41%
Light veh.50bottom 47%
Heavy veh. ★57top 37%
Units near it by SWORD

In Chaos Knights

Chaos Cerastus Knight Castigator44

Across the game· units

Dark Apostle Chaos Space Marines · just ahead45
Chaos Cerastus Knight Castigator 44
Chaos Land Raider Chaos Space Marines · level with it44

SHIELD: how hard Chaos Cerastus Knight Castigator is to kill for its points

Toughness for its points

289pts to kill it
per 100 pts spent

Its 370 pts take ~1070 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical unit: 305 per 100

For its points289bottom 42%
Units near it by SHIELD

In Chaos Knights

Chaos Cerastus Knight Castigator289

Across the game· units

Paladin Squad Grey Knights · just ahead290
Chaos Cerastus Knight Castigator 289
Cadian Recon Squad Astra Militarum · level with it289

What reviewers say

3 reviewers
  • Utility and damage in one knight 1 of 3
  • Its buff aura is one of the decent ones 1 of 3

Compare

UnitLetterSWORDSHIELDLists
Chaos Cerastus Knight Castigator370 ptsCBottom 41%Bottom 42%1of 77
Knight Despoiler360 ptsBBottom 28%Bottom 29%3of 77
Chaos Cerastus Knight Atrapos385 ptsCBottom 32%Top 48%1of 77

How we got these numbers

What we ran

Chaos Cerastus Knight Castigator, 370 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, in Infernal Lance (Malefic Surge: Diabolic Power: Sustained Hits). 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.

370 pts → kills ~163 pts → 44 per 100

SHIELD

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.

~1070 pts → 289 per 100

Top and bottom %

Where each number ranks among the game's 939 units. How we score.

The letter

The average of 7 reviewers' 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). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.

Lists

77 public Chaos Knights tournament lists, September – November 2026, from grimstat-corpus (CC BY 4.0). Also from Listhammer. Organisers and players: ask us and we'll take a list or an event down. Numbers run 2 Nov.