Knight Castellan
SWORD: what Knight Castellan kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 425 pts kill ~153 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 Knight Castellan is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 425 pts take ~1086 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
7 reviewers- Long-range gun that deletes vehicles and elites 5 of 7
- Taken in most winning lists 3 of 7
- Best with the re-roll shots in Dominus Foebreakers 3 of 7
- Safe back-line anchor with a cover bubble 2 of 7
- Points and detachment nerfs hurt it 2 of 7
- Slow, and needs worthwhile targets 2 of 7
- Output swings from game to game 1 of 7
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Knight Castellan425 pts | A | Bottom 28% | Bottom 27% | 33of 62 |
| Knight Crusader395 pts | A | Bottom 15% | Bottom 38% | 22of 62 |
| Knight Valiant390 pts | C | Bottom 45% | Bottom 39% | 12of 62 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Knight Castellan, 425 pts, with 2 Shieldbreaker missile launcher, 1 Titanic feet, 2 Twin meltagun, 1 Twin siegebreaker cannon, 1 Volcano lance, 1 Plasma decimator - standard, 1 Plasma decimator - supercharge, in Dominus Foebreakers. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: 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.
425 pts → kills ~153 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.
~1086 pts → 256 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.