Skitarii Vanguard
SWORD: what Skitarii Vanguard kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 85 pts kill ~31 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against light vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Imperial Knights
Across the game· shooters
SHIELD: how hard Skitarii Vanguard is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 85 pts take ~289 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
1 reviewer- Cheap screen, like the Rangers 1 of 1
- Seen only once 1 of 1
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skitarii Vanguard85 pts | C | Bottom 31% | Top 32% | 0of 62 |
| Skitarii Rangers85 pts | C | Top 50% | Top 32% | 4of 62 |
| Armiger Helverin140 pts | B | Bottom 31% | Top 25% | 38of 62 |
With a leader
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 90 | 118 |
| SHIELD | 340 | 340 |
| Solo | Led | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 90 | 111 |
| SHIELD | 340 | 340 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then with the leader joined.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Skitarii Vanguard, 10 models, 85 pts, with 1 Alpha combat weapon, 10 Close combat weapon, 10 Radium carbine, in Questor Forgepact. 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.
85 pts → kills ~31 pts → 37 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.
~289 pts → 340 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.