Knight Paladin
SWORD: what Knight Paladin kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 375 pts kill ~146 pts in one activation.Typical unit: 48 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· units
SHIELD: how hard Knight Paladin is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 375 pts take ~919 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical unit: 305 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
In Imperial Knights
Across the game· units
What reviewers say
6 reviewers- Strong against Terminators at the nearest target 4 of 6
- A good all-rounder 2 of 6
- Outranges most of the field 1 of 6
- Can deep strike with a Freeblade perk 1 of 6
- Seldom seen in winning lists 2 of 6
- The Crusader beats it 1 of 6
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Knight Paladin375 pts | B | Bottom 30% | Bottom 22% | 20of 62 |
| Cerastus Knight Castigator380 pts | C | Bottom 34% | Bottom 31% | 4of 62 |
| Knight Preceptor365 pts | D | Bottom 48% | Bottom 24% | 2of 62 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Knight Paladin, 375 pts, with 2 Questoris heavy stubber, 1 Rapid-fire battle cannon, 1 Stormspear rocket pod, 1 Reaper chainsword - strike, 1 Reaper chainsword - sweep, 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.
375 pts → kills ~146 pts → 39 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.
~919 pts → 245 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 939 units. 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.