Chaos Cerastus Knight Lancer
SWORD: what Chaos Cerastus Knight Lancer kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 385 pts kill ~139 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 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· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Chaos Cerastus Knight Lancer is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 385 pts take ~1421 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
In Chaos Knights
Across the game· melee units
What creators say
4 creators- Melee powerhouse that is hard to kill 2 of 4
- Healed by the army's stratagems 1 of 4
- Rarely listed in winning lists 1 of 4
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chaos Cerastus Knight Lancer385 pts | C | Bottom 12% | Top 25% | 7of 94 |
| Knight Rampager350 pts | C | Bottom 43% | Top 44% | 8of 94 |
| Chaos Cerastus Knight Atrapos385 pts | C | Bottom 32% | Top 48% | 2of 94 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Chaos Cerastus Knight Lancer, 385 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, in Infernal Lance (Malefic Surge: Unnatural Fortitude: FNP 6+). On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: 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.
385 pts → kills ~139 pts → 36 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.
~1421 pts → 369 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 572 melee units. 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.