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Each warrior squad now gets 1 dark lance, 1 shredder, 1 cannon, and 1 blaster, so it's great that you have several of those.

My simple stupid 1k list would be something to the effect of:

1 Archon
Master of Pain enhancement +25pts (At least, I believe that is the name of the enhance - whatever one gives you the +1 pain token if the bearer is on the battlefield)

10 Kabalites
1 Raider
10 Kabalites
1 Raider

Each kabalite squad should have 1 of each heavy and special. Raiders should have Dark Lances ideally, but NBD if youve got disintegrators.

2 Ravagers, these ones you do want dark lances if you have the option.

5 incubi
Drazar
Raider

Now the archon at 1k probably does not want to detach from a kabal squad and hide behind something to stay on the battlefield and alive, that's a lot of your points dedicated to just pain token generation, but it is an option if there's a mission where you have an important home field objective. Usually though, just stick him with one of the two kabal squads so that they can disembark and then have reroll to wound.

Chasing the detachment bonus by having 1 of each character type is a little bit wasteful in 2000pts, but it's SUPER wasteful in 1000pts. Our characters are not incredibly amazing. Usually when I do go for that bonus, I run Lelith Hesperax as my wych leader (as shes always better than a succubus) with 1 single wych squad in a raider. And then I run a haemonculus with 5 wrack buddies, and he sits in the back of the battlefield with the Art of Pain enhancement and just wracks (heh) me up free pain tokens, holds the back objective, and the wrack squad pops the occasional snipey-shot off at something.

The only real inefficiency in this 1k version of the list is you could have a Venom and not a Raider transport the incubi and drazar. Its got a better ability for melee units and its only 6 models you need to transport. You could probably play up to 1.5k and do decently ok just adding in the third Kabalite squad, adding the Scourges (and telling your opponent that theyve got Dark Lances instead of cannons - lances are just the best weapon by far RN wherever you can stick 'em) and maybe adding lelith and 10 wyches proxying your "generic wych cult leader" as lelith.