War Dog Executioner
SWORD: what War Dog Executioner kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 130 pts kill ~60 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 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· shooters
SHIELD: how hard War Dog Executioner is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 130 pts take ~508 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
In Chaos Knights
Across the game· shooters
What reviewers say
6 reviewers- Reliable anti-elite shooting 5 of 6
- In nearly every winning list 4 of 6
- Ignore-cover upgrade makes it a real unit 3 of 6
- Flat damage prized into Terminators and Custodes 2 of 6
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| War Dog Executioner130 pts | S | Top 45% | Top 18% | 70of 77 |
| War Dog Brigand135 pts | S | Top 50% | Top 22% | 64of 77 |
| War Dog Huntsman135 pts | C | Top 27% | Top 24% | 12of 77 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
War Dog Executioner, 130 pts, with 1 Armoured feet, 1 Diabolus heavy stubber, 2 War Dog autocannon, in Houndpack Lance. 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.
130 pts → kills ~60 pts → 46 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.
~508 pts → 391 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 407 shooters. 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.