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my FLGS has a kill team campaign starting up next month and I'm thinking about using dark eldar for it. I'm new to DE, so it's a chance to get my feet wet with only a moderate investment. I have two different lists I'm considering, but I'm not sure which way to go. I've never played kill team before and I have no idea what the board/terrain setups will be like for the campaign.

the first list is 6 reaver jet bikes, pimped out with enough shooty goodies to bring them up to 200pts. I loosely call this the 'quality' list, since the squad is a bit tougher than normal DE, highly mobile and packs a high volume of fire for so few models.

the second list would be a unit of 10 kabalite warriors with a sybarite upgrade and some weapon upgrades and a unit of 6 wracks with a liquifier. I'm calling this one 'quantity' since it gives me almost 3 times as many bodies, more shooting and an ok chance at assault at the expense of some mobility.

which one would you go for and why?

I usually run as many Necron warriors as I can.
camp them in cover and just deluge my opponents to death with weight of fire.

so, go with more bodies then? I could just do a giant blob of kabalite warriors in that case

I'd say the jetbikes in your case might be the better call, but its hard to rely on assault in kill team games

If you're going DE have you considered Helions? running them for kill team is the only reason i'd even consider bying them. In fact you could probably be fine taking 3 reavers and like 6 or 7 Helions. they should be manouverable enough to stay out of LOS with all the terrain in kill team games and they have a very good assault turn if you choose to do so. 2 BS4 4+ shots followed by a HoW attack at Str3 and then 3 more Initiative 5 str4 attacks with the glaive, pretty solid for their points. Also for the reavers you might want to consider taking a blaster to ID things or incase of vehicles also AP2, always nice