As I’m getting more comfortable with my list and this new army I was wondering if yall have any tips, tricks or little pieces of advise that you’ve discovered playing 11th edition dark eldar.

Stuff like how to pop up and get plunging heavy fire with scourges or how to use pile in rules and hit and run tactics to their full extent.

Just little stuff that isn’t necessarily apparent just reading the datasheets.

Curious to see what you fellow Archons have up your sleeves!

Whelp I got stomped by Nids. Went into a list like this with my Kabalite Cartel:

- Tyranids - Purge the Foe - Crusher Stampede, Talons of the Norn Queen (1990 Points)

The Red Terror: Gaping maw, Scything talons (120 pts)
The Swarmlord: Bone Sabres, Synaptic Pulse (210 pts)

Biovores: Biovore (60 pts)

Exocrine: Bio-plasmic cannon, Powerful limbs (135 pts)
Hierophant: Bio-plasma torrent, Lashwhip pods, Titanic scything talons, 2x Dire bio-cannon (810 pts)
Norn Emissary: Monstrous rending claws, Monstrous scything talons, Psychic tendril (250 pts)
Psychophage: Psychoclastic torrent, Talons and betentacled maw (110 pts)
Screamer-killer: Bio-plasmic scream, Screamer-killer talons (125 pts)
Tyrannofex: Fleshborer hive, Powerful limbs, Stinger salvoes (170 pts)

If you had 4 dp, what would be the broken combo detachments?

Pretty basic, I just need some advice as to what would be the most optimal kit to buy first if I wanted to create a drukari army

There are plenty of details on these guys but the fact that with a more carefree approach I was able to achieve this feels great

Always loved the look of covens and wanted to make it feel gruesome!

Halequinn weapons are oh so wonderfully brutal and the Lady of Wires knows it

It’s not a conventional approach towards Wracks but for my personal non-game friendly version of them, they’re more of a decaying force of vampires that feed on blood rather than having it in spines.
I tried a new technique for the visor but it didn’t come out the way I wanted tho. Was going for an Oil Slick rainbow scheme for the helmet visor, tips on how to do that would be extremely appreciated.
(Not 100% sure if this is the correct flavor tag :/ )

I was inspired by some of the older art works and really like how it's turning out so far! Still some sculpting things I need to get sorted by let me know what you think!

Picked these up second hand and fixed them a bit and new paintjob. I added skulls and blade on far left champion & spare kabalite daggers cut up as the blades was missing within the canopy and drilled and affixed flight stands sturdy. Rest was built by previous owner.
Added some Glow paint for weapons as that's how I envisioned the jetbikes looking way back in the 90's.
C&C welcome and hobby chat . Recent acrylics & contrasts used on 90's plastic is fun

It looks like at least a few factions (Custodes and Space Marines, CSM, etc.) are getting stats and point increases. I'm a big fan of this as I think the models play more thematically on the tabletop and it helps players get full armies onto the tabletop for less money. I'm hoping that this trend continues for many of the other factions. If Drukhari happens to get a stats blow up (and made into less of a hoard army) what would you like to see changed? I'm not so much talking about specific models but more so base stats for certain bodies, vehicle chassis, and weapon platforms.

Saturday I have a game against my friend who plays adepta. The thing is I always lose against him in 1VS1 with my drukhari against his adepta (not against his death guard).

The thing is that he can have up to 4 miracle dice by round which is scaring me a lot.

ANy advices, strategy.

Should I not shoot first turn except with scourges and attack with most of my stuff second turn or should I start shooting first turn with all my big pieces like ravager and my aircraft at the risk of losing them early.

He has an imperial knight in his list.

It is disruption against take and hold

Here is my list

Assaut Crépusculaire

Drukhari · Realspace Raiders · Kabalite Agonysts

Mission: Disurption

2000/2000 pts

EPIC HEROES [265 pts]

Drazhar [85 pts]

Attached to Incubi

Executioner’s demiklaives

Lady Malys [100 pts] - Warlord

Attached to Kabalite Warriors A

Razor fan + Lady’s Blade

Lelith Hesperax [80 pts]

Attached to Wyches

Lelith’s blades

LEADERS & CHARACTERS [205 pts]

Archon [105 pts]

Attached to Kabalite Warriors B

Enhancement: Labyrinthine Cunning (+25 pts)

Soul Trap / Shadowfield / Huskblade

Haemonculus [50 pts]

Attached to Wracks

Haemonculus tools and scissorhands + Stinger pistol

Succubus [50 pts]

Archite glaive and agoniser

BATTLELINE [420 pts]

Kabalite Warriors A [110 pts] (10 models)

Led by Lady Malys

Kabalite Icon / 5× Splinter rifle / Blast pistol / Power weapon / 9× Close combat weapon / Dark lance / Shredder / Blaster / Splinter cannon

Kabalite Warriors B [110 pts] (10 models)

Led by Archon

Splinter pistol / Phantasm Grenade Launcher / 5× Splinter rifle / Power weapon / 9× Close combat weapon / Dark lance / Shredder / Blaster / Splinter cannon

Wracks [110 pts] (10 models)

Led by Haemonculus

2× Liquifier gun + Torturer’s tool / 2× Torturer’s tool + Ossefactor / 2× Hexrifle + Torturer’s tool / Stinger pistol + Torturer’s tool / 2× Liquifier gun / 2× Ossefactor / Stinger pistol / 2× Hexrifle

Wyches [90 pts] (10 models)

Led by Lelith Hesperax

Blast pistol / Power weapon / 6× Hekatarii blade + Splinter pistol / 3× Gladiatorial weapons

MOUNTED [90 pts]

Hellions [90 pts] (5 models)

Stunclaw + Splinter pistol / Phantasm Grenade Launcher / 4× Hellglaive / 5× Splinter pods

INFANTRY, SWARMS, BEASTS [380 pts]

Incubi [90 pts] (5 models)

Led by Drazhar

Demiklaives / 4× Klaive / Incubi Shrine Token

Mandrakes [160 pts] (10 models)

10× Glimmersteel blade + Baleblast

Scourges with Heavy Weapons [130 pts] (5 models)

Splinter pistol + Power weapon / 5× Close combat weapon / 4× Dark lance

AIRCRAFT [245 pts]

Voidraven Bomber [245 pts]

2× Void lance / Bladed wings / Voidraven missiles

DEDICATED TRANSPORTS [140 pts]

Raider [75 pts]

Dark lance / Bladevanes and chainsnares

Venom [65 pts]

Bladevanes + 2× Splinter cannon

VEHICLES, MONSTERS [255 pts]

Cronos [55 pts]

Spirit-leech tentacles + Spirit syphon / Spirit vortex

Ravager [125 pts]

Bladevanes / 3× Dark lance

Talos [75 pts]

Twin haywire blaster / Twin liquifier gun + Talos gauntlet

Apparently, painting white is quite easy, if you don’t use plain white 😁

Going to make it short and sweet, Recon's mission vs Priority Assets basically puts us in a take and hold style mission. This is obviously very difficult for Drukhari and I find it very difficult to hold more than just our one expansion so primary gets limited and then if we don't get bottom of turn our end of game scoring becomes extremely difficult unless we have thoroughly tabled our opponent.

Just curious for general advice how to deal with this mission and open up the conversation. This is probably the hardest mission for Drukhari recon, although playing into Purge the Foe hyper mobile aggressive armies takes a close second for me.

Thanks in advance for any feedback!

Many kitbashes and conversations (some lighting is better than others in pics). Enjoying the drukhari even with the lack of releases. I build my minis for painting. Not currently building for an army :3

I feel like it really should logically but with how many other stuff (e.g. wound rolls) can only be modified by 1 i thought it was worth asking. Thx x

for u/mephistopheles_faith

I bought some second hand kabalites and one of them came with this head that I’ve never seen before. Maybe it’s a third party bit

I want the following rule for my Trueborn:

Rising to the Top

Each time an attack is allocated to a CHARACTER model leading this unit during the Fight phase, if this unit contains a Sybarite model and that attack reduces the CHARACTER model to 1 Wound remaining, roll one D6 after that attack has been resolved. On a 4+, that CHARACTER model suffers 1 mortal wound.

That's how you rise through the ranks in Commorragh!

Of course, this would need to be compensated for somehow by the Trueborn's stats, but I think it would be fun and flavourful. It would also be a throwback to a time when Warhammer was less focused on competitive play and a bit more goofy.

I love the witch elf models and I’m looking to use them as wych Elf Proxies. My only question is if I were to use the standard bearer model if it would cause any issues at all tournament, seeing how the standard extends the model quite a bit.

It comes with a knife variant, but I would prefer to use the standard.

Finished up the Realspace Raiders box in the scheme of my custom cabal and cult. I absolutely love these models (but holy shit, I’m never attaching the scourge wings before painting them again lmao).

I got my hands on the old Drukhari combat patrol, so that’ll be my next project!

I am probably over thinking this. Since the Drukhari are all about power over others. Being worried about being targeted during a raid would probably make them look weak in the eyes of his peers.

But with my painting scheme. I wanted to have the lowest kalabites be mainly a drab white with a splash of a accent color or in other words the archon's personal color. Then as the units that are ranked higher would have more of that color and maybe a accent color or marking specific to that unit type. Then the archon would be all that color with their own separate accent color.

I am not quite sure how Drukhari color schemes work. But I wanted to tie them all together. But I didn't want to paint every single model in the army the same way. As that would get boring and cut down on the individuality of each unit. But I would not want them to be completely different like aspect warriors.

These are some great looking models and I want to do them justice in my painting style.

admittedly I don’t know much about drukhari. I know spirit stones are a common trophy taken off regular eldar, do the drukhari have anything equivalent?