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I have been away from 40k for a while, but I kept all my Harlequins and Dark Eldar stuff. Now when I played 40k ages ago I mainly played Eldar, Dark Eldar, and Harlequins but for my Eldar I used converted reaver jetbikes for Eldar Windrunners and Shining Spears. I have a lot of converted Reaver jetbike models that I can easily convert back to Drukhari Reavers...about 70 Reaver jetbikes chassis. I definitely love the speed of the Drukhari and so when I saw the Cult of Red Grief obsession I knew I had to try it. The goal is to go as fast as possible while still having a fun and somewhat effective list.

The main points about this list is that I'd like to keep the purchases to just this (excluding the jetbikes of course) and if someone wanted me to play by rule of three I could split the 4th squad of Reavers into the others for 3 units of 12.

++ Battalion Detachment +5CP (Aeldari - Drukhari) [50 PL, 1019pts] ++

+ No Force Org Slot +

Detachment Attribute: Cult of the Red Grief

Fixed Combat Drug Selections

+ HQ +

Succubus [4 PL, 60pts]: Adrenalight (Combat Drug), Archite Glaive, Blast Pistol, Hyper-swift Reflexes, The Blood Glaive, Warlord (Succubus)

Succubus [4 PL, 54pts]: Grave Lotus (Combat Drug), Hydra gauntlets

+ Troops +

Wyches [6 PL, 127pts]: Hypex (Combat Drug)
. Hekatrix: Agoniser, Blast Pistol
. 10x Wych
. Wych with Wych Weapon: Shardnet and impaler
. Wych with Wych Weapon: Razorflails

Wyches [4 PL, 103pts]: Splintermind (Combat Drug)
. Hekatrix: Agoniser, Blast Pistol
. 7x Wych
. Wych with Wych Weapon: Shardnet and impaler
. Wych with Wych Weapon: Razorflails

Wyches [4 PL, 103pts]: Serpentin (Combat Drug)
. Hekatrix: Agoniser, Blast Pistol
. 7x Wych
. Wych with Wych Weapon: Shardnet and impaler
. Wych with Wych Weapon: Razorflails

+ Heavy Support +

Tantalus [18 PL, 400pts]

+ Dedicated Transport +

Raider [5 PL, 86pts]: Dark Lance, Shock Prow

Raider [5 PL, 86pts]: Dark Lance, Shock Prow

++ Outrider Detachment +1CP (Aeldari - Drukhari) [44 PL, 978pts] ++

+ No Force Org Slot +

Detachment Attribute: Cult of the Red Grief

Fixed Combat Drug Selections

+ HQ +

Succubus [4 PL, 54pts]: Hydra gauntlets

+ Fast Attack +

Reavers [10 PL, 231pts]: 3x Grav-Talon, Painbringer (Combat Drug)
. Arena Champion
. 5x Reaver
. Reaver with special weapon (up to 1 for 3 models): Blaster
. Reaver with special weapon (up to 1 for 3 models): Blaster
. Reaver with special weapon (up to 1 for 3 models): Blaster

Reavers [10 PL, 231pts]: 3x Grav-Talon, Painbringer (Combat Drug)
. Arena Champion
. 5x Reaver
. Reaver with special weapon (up to 1 for 3 models): Blaster
. Reaver with special weapon (up to 1 for 3 models): Blaster
. Reaver with special weapon (up to 1 for 3 models): Blaster

Reavers [10 PL, 231pts]: 3x Grav-Talon, Painbringer (Combat Drug)
. Arena Champion
. 5x Reaver
. Reaver with special weapon (up to 1 for 3 models): Blaster
. Reaver with special weapon (up to 1 for 3 models): Blaster
. Reaver with special weapon (up to 1 for 3 models): Blaster

Reavers [10 PL, 231pts]: 3x Grav-Talon, Painbringer (Combat Drug)
. Arena Champion
. 5x Reaver
. Reaver with special weapon (up to 1 for 3 models): Blaster
. Reaver with special weapon (up to 1 for 3 models): Blaster
. Reaver with special weapon (up to 1 for 3 models): Blaster

++ Total: [94 PL, 1997pts] ++

I don't like the reavers' setup. The advantage of brining the red grief cult is the possibilty to advance+charge in order to get first turn combat. With that many blasters those units don't really want to charge and why choosing the red grief cult then? They're not going to benefit from the cult. Make them cult of strife if you want to equip them with blasters. Or just bring squads with only max grav talons and no blasters.

About the drugs the codex says: "you can't choose a bonus that has already been taken by another until all six combat drugs have been taken once each". In this list only two units of bikes can have the +1T bonus.

I'm kind of new to this edition. The combat drugs read that "you can't choose a bonus that has already been taken by another until all six combat drugs have been taken once each" but the way it's worded sounds like as long as 5 units have the other 5 drugs, I can repeat the 6th drug as many times for as many units past 5 I have. Correct me if I'm wrong but that's the way it's worded.

Also, the blasters are there since you still hit on a 4+ when advanced and sometimes you don't need to advance later in the game. But that's just my reasoning and in the few games I've played it's worked pretty well.

You're wrong about the drugs, if you give all six drugs to your units you have to give the remaining ones following the same rule of the first six.

About blasters on reavers, the point is: the red grief bonus consists in allowing advance+charge and re-roll charges turn 1. If you don't want to assault turn 1, and a big unit of reavers with 3 blasters usually doesn't want to do that, just go for the Strife, at least those reavers will get +1A if they charge. Without the red grief bonus reavers can easily assault turn 2 or later anyway.

The battallion with that many wyches would also benefit from another wych cult bonus, having +1S or +1A is certainly better for them. You may keep a red grief outrider just for the Blood Glaive, and use a strife or cursed blade battallion.

That may be the intention of the rule, but the way it is written currently after you go through all 6 you can freely choose multiples.

war wrote:
That may be the intention of the rule, but the way it is written currently after you go through all 6 you can freely choose multiples.

And that is how I am going to play it until further notice. If it gets FAQed I will figure it out. Also, I've modified my list a little bit after realizing that I can split my wych squads into two squads of 5, dropped the blast pistols, and added another succubus for two battalion detachments of Red Grief for +4cp and a total of 13cp.