Knight Despoiler
SWORD: what Knight Despoiler kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 360 pts kill ~137 pts in one activation.Typical unit: 48 per 100
Best against heavy infantry, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Chaos Knights
Across the game· units
SHIELD: how hard Knight Despoiler is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 360 pts take ~949 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical unit: 305 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
In Chaos Knights
Across the game· units
What reviewers say
6 reviewers- Best volume of shooting in the army 4 of 6
- Punches up in several detachments 2 of 6
- Its aura helps War Dogs 1 of 6
- Priced out by a big points rise 3 of 6
- Datasheet ability weak next to other tanks 1 of 6
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Knight Despoiler360 pts | B | Bottom 28% | Bottom 29% | 3of 77 |
| Chaos Cerastus Knight Castigator370 pts | C | Bottom 41% | Bottom 42% | 1of 77 |
| Knight Abominant350 pts | B | Bottom 43% | Top 45% | 3of 77 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Knight Despoiler, 360 pts, with 1 Daemonbreath meltagun, 2 Despoiler battle cannon, 2 Diabolus heavy stubber, 1 Ruinspear rocket pod, 1 Titanic feet, 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.
360 pts → kills ~137 pts → 38 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.
~949 pts → 264 per 100Top 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.