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So, I had about 1k points of Dark Eldar before the new book, but almost dropped 200 pts with the new one (wtf!) so in my recent (and first battle) with the new codex I had to proxy some models to make do.
This is what I brought (against Daemons and Necrons. with an Eldar player and a Marine player on my team)

1 Archon, helm of spite, shadow field, huskblade, soul-trap, blaster. a bit of a mixed bag and certainly over kitted in price!

9 wyches with a hekatrix with agoniser in a Raider with night shields and aethersails, this was the 'body guard' of the Archon

10 Kabalites with a splinter cannon in a Raider with night shields, splinter racks and a dark lance.

2x5 Trueborn with 2 dark lances in each group

10 mandrakes with a nightfiend

4 reavers, caltrops, blaster and a champ' with agoniser, certainly want to add 2 more reavers at least and drop the champion.

Now, I never got to try out the damned Mandrakes (which I proxied with some old high elf archers, because that's what I had at home!)
failing to come in on two consecutive turns and the game was done at end of turn 3 and I realized I had forgotten all about them...
And I didn't get to try out the 'new' Reavers either, half of them died because a 3 up is waaay to hard a roll for me to actually pull off it seems, so they fled of the board turn 1.

The wierd thing is that the Wyches did great, they faced 15-18 necron warriors and an overlord and crushed them (by making them flee) and then killed a unit of Immortals.
I luckily rolled +1 toughness on their combat drugs so t4 wyches saving with 4++ and 5+ fnp. I lost two wyches in total to overwatch.
My archon couldn't scratch the Overlord and the overlord coulnd't get through the Archons Ws and 2++.

Now is Drazhar worth it at 1k pts?
I counted that my über costly Archon with the wyches was actually 60 pts more expensive than 4 incubi with drazhar in a venom

So I made another list:

Drazhar, 4 incubi in a Venom with an extra splinter cannon

10 wyches, hekatrix with agoniser,
Raider, night shields, athersails

10 kabalites, splinter cannon
Raider, night shields, Splinter racks, Dark lance

2x5 Trueborn with 2 Dark lances each.

4 Reavers, Blaster, Caltrops

Now yeah I realize I still kept the Wyches so I took out the Mandrakes, reasoning that the wyches and Incubi/Drazhar are gonna double team in assaults or at least getting in the face of the opposing force at the same time.


Are these lists any good in a casual/semi-competetive environment? I ran the first list with the DE specific formation (giving cover on turn 1).
Is the Drazhar and incubi bomb too much of a points sink in 1k matches?

Now I only have a modest starting force so I don't have Drazhar or Incubi yet... Or even a Venom, but they are on my wishlist of things to get (along with a myriad of units now...fml) so I wanted to throw this out there and see the reactions before I commited to getting Incubi/Drazhar.