Knight Warden
SWORD: what Knight Warden kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 365 pts kill ~168 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 Warden is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 365 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
7 reviewers- Good at wearing down infantry 4 of 7
- Buffs Helverins nearby 3 of 7
- Points cut makes it worth a look 2 of 7
- Beats the Castigator 1 of 7
- Seldom seen in winning lists 3 of 7
- Edged out by Crusader and Destrier 1 of 7
- Needs a protector 1 of 7
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Knight Warden365 pts | B | Bottom 46% | Bottom 24% | 13of 62 |
| Knight Preceptor365 pts | D | Bottom 48% | Bottom 24% | 2of 62 |
| Knight Paladin375 pts | B | Bottom 30% | Bottom 22% | 20of 62 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Knight Warden, 365 pts, with 1 Avenger gatling cannon, 1 Heavy flamer, 1 Meltagun, 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.
365 pts → kills ~168 pts → 46 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 → 252 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.