War Dog Karnivore
SWORD: what War Dog Karnivore kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 145 pts kill ~103 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 War Dog Karnivore is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 145 pts take ~583 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· melee units
What reviewers say
5 reviewers- Cheapest, fastest dog with strong melee 3 of 5
- Battleline in Houndpack Lance 4 of 5
- Reserves and re-rolled charges reach the backfield 3 of 5
- In nearly every winning list 3 of 5
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| War Dog Karnivore145 pts | S | Top 23% | Top 16% | 71of 77 |
| War Dog Stalker135 pts | A | Top 18% | Top 23% | 57of 77 |
| War Dog Brigand135 pts | S | Top 50% | Top 22% | 64of 77 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
War Dog Karnivore, 145 pts, with 1 Diabolus heavy stubber, 1 Reaper chaintalon, 1 Slaughterclaw, 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.
145 pts → kills ~103 pts → 71 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.
~583 pts → 402 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 572 melee 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.