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I have a tournament coming up and I want to run the Wych Cult. This list has been great so far, but I have only played it against MEQ, Tau, and Necros, so I was hoping to get some feedback on it's TAC competitiveness in a tournament scene.

Each Succubus rides with an Adrenalight (+1 attack) Wych unit in their Raiders. The Beastmaster is my warlord for the +1 leadership along with Splintermind (+2 leadership), granting the Razorwing Flocks effective leadership 10. The Grave Lotus (+1 strength) Wyches ride in the venoms. I wanted to keep the Reavers barebones considering how expensive they are. Their role is to tie something up in the backline with their decent resilience, or, perhaps soak overwatch for Hellions. I do whatever I can to keep Hellions out of harms way until turn 3 power from pain kicks in and they have rerolling charges (paired with Hypex +2 movement drug) and +1 to hit. Thank you in advance, I'd love to hear your thoughts!

Total points = 2,000
Total drops = 12
Total command points = 6

BATTALION DETACHMENT

HQ
Succubus {Serpentin} - Blast pistol [82]
Succubus {Serpentin} - Blast pistol [82]

ELITES
Beastmaster {Splintermind} (Warlord) - Agoniser [60]

TROOPS
Wyches {Adrenalight} (5) - Blast pistol, agoniser, hydra gauntlet [63]
Wyches {Adrenalight} (5) - Blast pistol, agoniser, hydra gauntlet [63]
Wyches {Grave Lotus} (5) – Blast pistol, power sword, hydra gauntlet [63]
Wyches {Grave Lotus} (5) – Blast pistol, power sword, hydra gauntlet [63]

FAST ATTACK
Razorwing Flocks (10) [140]
Reavers {Painbringer} (6) [180]
Hellions {Hypex} (10) [170]

HEAVY SUPPORT
Ravager - 3x dark lances, shock prow [156]
Ravager - 3x dark lances, shock prow [156]

FLYERS
Razorwing Jetfighter - 2x dark lances [155]
Razorwing Jetfighter - 2x dark lances [155]

DEDICATED TRANSPORTS
Raider - Disintegrator cannon, shock prow [126]
Raider - Disintegrator cannon, shock prow [126]
Venom [80]
Venom [80]

Looks interesting. Seems like you went the opposite direction I did, with the infantry in the anti-infantry role and the vehicles in the anti-vehicle role.

You might consider Painbringer on your Hellions, that +1 toughness can give them a lot of added survivability against MEQs, give your Reavers Serpentin (can actually make them nasty in close combat. Bladevanes aren't amazing, but when you almost always hit, you can do some damage), and throw Hypex on your succubi so they can zip around the field bringing the pain (I mean, they're already WS 2+, even with the -1 from the archite glaive, you're still 67/33 to hit/miss)

The serpentine combat drug is wasted on a succubus since she'll hit on 3s with the glaive anyway. Switch that drug with the adrenalight, the succubi will receive +1A and the wyches will hit on 2s which is basically like having +1A if not better.

I'd give 2 grav talons to the reavers but it's hard to spare points in your list, maybe cutting one disintegrator cannon and replacing it with a dark lance.

 Blackie wrote:
The serpentine combat drug is wasted on a succubus since she'll hit on 3s with the glaive anyway. Switch that drug with the adrenalight, the succubi will receive +1A and the wyches will hit on 2s which is basically like having +1A if not better.

I'd give 2 grav talons to the reavers but it's hard to spare points in your list, maybe cutting one disintegrator cannon and replacing it with a dark lance.

The +1 to hit cancels out the -1 on the glaive, so she hits at her base 2+. The drug is made irrelevant from T3 onwards by PFP, but that's the case with most units that have access to drugs.

 snykyninja wrote:

 Blackie wrote:
The serpentine combat drug is wasted on a succubus since she'll hit on 3s with the glaive anyway. Switch that drug with the adrenalight, the succubi will receive +1A and the wyches will hit on 2s which is basically like having +1A if not better.

I'd give 2 grav talons to the reavers but it's hard to spare points in your list, maybe cutting one disintegrator cannon and replacing it with a dark lance.

The +1 to hit cancels out the -1 on the glaive, so she hits at her base 2+. The drug is made irrelevant from T3 onwards by PFP, but that's the case with most units that have access to drugs.

No, it's a common mistake that I also did a few times. The drug afflicts the WS, the glaive the dice result. With the drug the succubus gains a WS1+ since she's already WS2+. With the glaive rolls of twos becomes ones but even if you have a WS1+ the rulebook says: "Rolls of ones are always misses". Even with the drug the succubs still needs a result of a 3 (before the negative modifier) to actually hit. Unfortunately the serpentine drug does not say: "Add one to the dice roll", it only buffs the WS which the succubs already has at the maximum level.