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Hey there, I've been working a drukhari list but my local meta is getting pretty competitive so was hoping for some feedback on how you guys think this will do.

The basic idea is splinter spam, but also with enough anti tank to hold my own against knights and guard.

I know dissies and talos are good but I'm trying to do something a bit different, also ideally pure drukhari for now, I have plenty of harlies and Craftworlds I can add in later if necessary.

So far I've got;

Flayed skull battalion

Archon(wl) - famed savagery, blast pistol, huskblade, obsidian veil

Archon - blast pistol, huskblade, helm of spite

5 kabalite warriors - 1 blaster
5 kabalite warriors - 1 blaster
5 kabalite warriors - 1 blaster

8 scourges - 4 haywire, 4 carbines
8 scourges - 4 haywire, 4 carbines
8 scourges - 4 haywire, 4 carbines

4 venoms - dual cannons

Flayed skull battalion

Archon - blast pistol, huskblade
Archon- blast pistol, huskblade

5 kabalite warriors - 1 blaster
5 kabalite warriors - 1 blaster
5 kabalite warriors - 1 blaster

3 venoms - dual cannons

Flayed skull airwing detachment

Razorwing - 2 dark lances, splinter cannon
Razorwing - 2 dark lances, splinter cannon
Voidraven - 2 void lances, missiles


The extra venom is for the Archons to ride in, they will basically just be grabbing objectives, once dropped off it can pick up any kabalites that have lost their ride.

It puts out about 150 splinter shots at 18", and the scourges will all deepstrike for 12 D3 guaranteed haywire shots.

Any feedback at all would be great, it's my first drukhari list so any pointers or nasty drukhari tricks I can pull would really help!

Unfortunately there's rule of three at competitive levels, so 4 Archons are illegal. If you want to field two kabal battallions you're stuck on bringing Drazhar. Or downgrade the second battallion to an outrider with those Scourges as FA. At that point I'd make it a Black Heart outrider, putting all the Kabalites in the Flayed Skull battallion, so you can use Agents of Vect if you need to.

Yeah my bad, thanks for picking that up. I completely forgot about characters, never had that come up before.

That's interesting though, agents of vect would definitely be useful, but it would drop me down to 10 CP. I'd drop the extra relic at that point though.

Probably also worth making the black heart Archon the warlord, so I can take the CP regen strat.

Ok I'll rework the list and add an updated version.

I might just add - even though you mentioned you wanted to go pure - that a farseer that can doom and a warlock than can jinx can do wonders for any Aeldari army.

Ok so it's now;

Black heart outriders

Archon (wl labrythine cunning)

3 × 8 scourges (4 haywire 4 carbines)


Flayed skull battalion

2 Archons ( 1 with helm of spite)

6 × 5 warriors (1 blaster 4 splinter rifles)

6 venoms (dual cannons)


Flayed skull airwing

2 razorwings (dark lances)

1 voidraven (void lances and missiles)


I've got about 150pts to spend but not sure what on, was thinking a squad of mandrakes to hassle backline units but not sure.

I could take another Razorwing instead, or another warrior squad and venom.

What do you think?

Well, I'm missing the Ravagers with disintegrators.

Indeed, well I just wanted to try something a bit different, plus I don't own the models.

I'm glad you didn't go with the dissi ravergers.

I would give the archon a blaster instead of the blast pistol. Its still leageal from the index right?

Thanks! Yeah I think it's still legal, I did consider it but went with pistols just to be on the safe side. Blasters would certainly make them more useful though.

Was wondering if i had enough anti tank in the list, I seem to usually play against armies that have a fair bit of armour, mainly tau, knights, guard tanks.