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Knight Destrier

Character · 265 pts

Why it's takenIn 32 of 83 public listsThe 5th most-taken Imperial Knights unit · Top 37% for objective control per point · Role: Fastest knights

Lists39% · in 32 of 83 public lists, September – November 2026

SimulateKnight Destrier against any unit, in the calculator

SWORD: what Knight Destrier kills

Damage for its points

31pts killed
per 100 pts spent

Its 265 pts kill ~82 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100

Best against line infantry, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters

Into each enemy type

Everything31bottom 7%

Hordes47bottom 33%

Line inf. ★49bottom 24%

Heavy inf.36bottom 8%

Light veh.32bottom 8%

Heavy veh.28bottom 9%

Units near it by SWORD

In Imperial Knights

Cerastus Knight Atrapos36

Knight Defender32

Knight Destrier31

Cerastus Knight Acheron29

Knight Crusader29

Across the game· melee units

Chaos Cerastus Knight Acheron Chaos Knights · just ahead32

Knight Destrier 31

Plaguebearers Chaos Daemons · level with it31

SHIELD: how hard Knight Destrier is to kill for its points

Toughness for its points

249pts to kill it
per 100 pts spent

Its 265 pts take ~659 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100

For its points249bottom 21%

Units near it by SHIELD

In Imperial Knights

Knight Preceptor252

Knight Warden252

Knight Destrier249

Knight Paladin245

Questoris Knight Styrix245

Across the game· melee units

Shield-Captain in Allarus Terminator Armour Adeptus Custodes · just ahead250

Knight Destrier 249

Skitarii Marshal Adeptus Mechanicus · level with it249

What creators say

6 creators

Fast, and ignores cover on objectives 5 of 6
Clears enemy chaff and action units early 3 of 6
Self-contained in any detachment 2 of 6
Shooting build is far ahead 3 of 6

Best at two copies per list 2 of 6

Compare

Unit	Letter	SWORD	SHIELD	Lists
Knight Destrier265 pts	S	Bottom 7%	Bottom 21%	32of 83
Knight Gallant355 pts	B	Bottom 34%	Bottom 49%	14of 83
Cerastus Knight Acheron380 pts	D	Bottom 5%	Bottom 48%	1of 83

How we got these numbers

What we ran

Knight Destrier, 265 pts, with 1 Chastiser gatling cannon, 1 Frag bombard, 1 Questoris heavy stubber, 1 Titanic feet, in Gate Warden Lance. 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.

265 pts → kills ~82 pts → 31 per 100

SHIELD

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.

~659 pts → 249 per 100

Top and bottom %

Where each number ranks among the game's 572 melee units. How we score.

The letter

The average of 7 creators' 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). Questions? Get in touch.

Lists

83 public Imperial Knights tournament lists, September – November 2026, from grimstat-corpus (CC BY 4.0). Also from Listhammer, MiniHeadQuarters, ChampionsHub. Questions about a list or an event? Get in touch. Numbers run 2 Nov.