Acastus Knight Porphyrion
SWORD: what Acastus Knight Porphyrion kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 725 pts kill ~167 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100
Best against heavy vehicles and monsters, weakest against hordes
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Imperial Knights
Across the game· shooters
SHIELD: how hard Acastus Knight Porphyrion is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 725 pts take ~1704 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
In Imperial Knights
Across the game· shooters
What reviewers say
3 reviewers- Tough enough to shrug off common anti-tank 1 of 3
- Costs a huge amount 1 of 3
- Slow, and wasted without big targets 1 of 3
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acastus Knight Porphyrion725 pts | C | Bottom 6% | Bottom 19% | 1of 62 |
| Armiger Helverin140 pts | B | Bottom 31% | Top 25% | 38of 62 |
| Acastus Knight Asterius785 pts | D | Bottom 8% | Bottom 13% | 0of 62 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Acastus Knight Porphyrion, 725 pts, with 1 Helios defence missiles, 2 Lascannon, 1 Titanic feet, 2 Twin magna lascannon, in Freeblade Company. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: its own abilities 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.
725 pts → kills ~167 pts → 23 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.
~1704 pts → 235 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 Imperial Knights tier lists: Recon By Fire (Knight Intelligence weekly meta reports, 14 and 27 Oct) (27 Oct), Tabletop Battles / formerly Goonhammer (Sep dataslate review and Competitive Innovations, 25 Sep to 30 Oct: 12 described IK lists) (30 Oct), Art of War 40k (11th Edition Competitive Tier List, IK segment by Brian Jones) (27 Oct), Mana Down Under (Imperial Knight Tier List, 11th Edition) (3 Sep), Vanguard Tactics (Ranking every Imperial Knights unit, with a top IK player) (21 Jul), Auspex Tactics (Imperial Knights Tier List, 11th Edition) (11 Jul), 1d6chan (community 11th-edition tactics wiki, written before the dataslate) (30 Oct). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.
Lists
62 public Imperial 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.