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Got an 1850 list I am running at the moment.
Seems pretty effective. Keen to hear others thoughts.

Battalion one: black heart
Hq: archon, venom blade (labyrinthe cunning, writ)
Hq: archon, huskblade, splinter pistol

Troop: 5 kabalite warriors with blaster
Troop: 5 kabalite warriors with blaster
Troop: 5 kabalite warriors with blaster

Elite: 5 trueborn, 4 shredders

Fast attack: 5 scourges, 4 shredders

Heavy support: ravager 3 dis cannons
Heavy support: ravager 3 dis cannons
Heavy support: ravager 3 dis cannons

Dedicated transport: 4x raider with dark lance

Battalion two, cult of red grief
Hq: succubus, archite glaive, splinter pistol
Hq: succubus, shardnet and impaler

Troop: 5 wyches, shardnet and impaler
Troop: 5 wyches, hydra gauntlets
Troop: 7 wyches, hydra gauntlet, agoniser

Airwing, black heart
3x razorwing 2x dis cannons

Alliance of agony and 2 extra relics from stratagem gives glaive succubus red glaive and quicksilver reflex for 3++. Non warlord archon gets djin blade or helm of spite if versing decent psychic.

Raiders carry: 2 warriors, trueborn and warriors, 2 wyches, big wyche squad and 3 hq.
12 drops. 10cp left over after alliance and extra relics. 10 raider equivilant t5 4+/5++/6+++ models to get through.
Relatively shooty tho sacrificed a bit of anti tank for the 2 shredder units for a bit of anti infantry work.

I think the red grief bonus is great with an outrider made of just bikes and a succubus. With wyches in raiders I prefer the other two wych cult bonuses.

The list looks very solid overall.

Ah good pick up. Was left over from a variation to the list with reavers. Accessing the blood glaive is handy, but I guess could just replace with the trippy whip wych.

I tend to look at the Cult bonuses this way, myself;

Strife - best overall for mech Wyches
Cursed Blade - best overall for foot Wyches/Wych blobs
Grief - best overall Succubus (optimal Patrol purchase)

So it really depends on the goals of your Cult. With what you have here you're kind of walking the line between Strife and Grief to my mind, because you're buying the bigger detatchment with them, and also because you're kind of taking some tie-up Wyches and also a killing squad.

I would suggest that since your core strategy appears to be a killing HQ assault tool, probably Red Grief does remain the best choice, as your other tie up tools will be overall better. But, yeah, you could go to the whippy Strife Succubus at only a small shift down in the HQ effectiveness and the speed of your tie up units to gain extra overall Wych impact.

Personally i'd advocate Red Grief because I like the option to headbutt Landraiders to death with my Succubus - but I am perhaps in a minority there

Yeah I've switched to the trippy wych. Land raiders aren't really my target for the wyches.