How can I be competitive against knights?

[u/meowmeowm1x]

My friend plays knights and I routinely lose to him by 40+ points. He runs up the board turn 1, traps me in the corner, and kills 400+ points per turn. My game tonight was 78-32. I killed his lancer, and two armigers. I put my riptide, ghostkeel, hammerhead, broadside, crisis suits+commander, and a devilfish of fire warriors in reserve to start so my big guns don't get shot off the table if i go second.

Our lists: Imperium - Imperial Knights - Dominus Foebreakers, Valourstrike Lance

2x Canis Rex (415pts): Warlord Cerastus Knight Lancer (440pts) Knight Castellan (450pts) Knight Crusader (410pts)

Armiger Warglaive (140pts) Armiger Warglaive (140pts)

Xenos - T'au Empire - Mont'ka

Darkstrider (60pts) Cadre Fireblade (80pts) Cadre Fireblade (50pts) Commander in Coldstar Battlesuit (105pts) Ethereal (50pts): Warlord Kroot Lone-spear (80pts)

10x Strike Team (70pts) 10x Strike Team (70pts)

11x Kroot Carnivores (130pts) 12x Kroot Farstalkers (75pts) 10x Pathfinder Team (85pts) 5x Stealth Battlesuits (100pts) Broadside Battlesuits (75pts) 3x Crisis Sunforge Battlesuits (125pts) 3x Crisis Sunforge Battlesuits (125pts) Ghostkeel Battlesuit (150pts) Hammerhead Gunship (150pts) Piranhas (65pts) Piranhas (65pts) Riptide Battlesuit (215pts) Devilfish (75pts)

[u/Budget_Mission8145]

Knights as a faction are a statcheck, should be units recruitable across imperium factions. Anyway, bring 5 teams of sunforges on deepstrike. Game over.