Exhibition of Slaughter: The 11th-Edition Drukhari Wych Cult Detachment

One clause: friendly WYCH CULT units' melee attacks have [LETHAL HITS: non-MONSTER/VEHICLE].

Lethal Hits means an unmodified Hit roll of 6 automatically wounds, skipping the Wound roll entirely. For a faction whose gladiators swing a lot of low-Strength blades, that is the single most valuable keyword in the game: it converts the attacks that were bouncing off Toughness 5 and 6 infantry into damage without touching the profile.

The restriction in the brackets is not a footnote. Monsters and Vehicles get nothing from it, which means the detachment does exactly nothing to a Dreadnought, a Carnifex or a tank. That is deliberate and it is the reason this is a 1-DP splash rather than a core.

The pack also states in the rule text itself that this detachment has the WYCH CULT tag and cannot be taken with another WYCH CULT detachment. That matters more than usual and gets its own section below.

Three, all 1CP, which is the standard allocation for a 1-DP detachment. Each one earns its slot.

• Planned Strikes (Fight). When a friendly WYCH CULT unit is selected to fight, that unit's melee attacks have Lethal Hits. Look at what is not there: this version carries no Monster or Vehicle restriction. It is the detachment's own answer to the hole in its rule, and it is the reason a Wych squad can be pointed at a walker once a game.
• Sculpting the Stage (your Movement). When a WYCH CULT unit is selected to make an advance or fall-back move, that move does not prevent the unit from being eligible to start an action. In a mission set where actions win games, that is a scoring tool rather than a damage one.
• Acrobatic Display (opponent's Shooting). When an enemy unit targets a friendly WYCH CULT unit, that unit has a 5+ invulnerable save. Note that Spectacle of Spite has a stratagem of the same name; they are not the same detachment and you cannot have both.

The habit to build: hold Planned Strikes for the turn a Wych unit reaches something the detachment rule cannot touch, and spend Acrobatic Display on the squad your opponent has decided to delete rather than on chip damage.

Two, both SUCCUBUS model only, which makes the character and the enhancement a single decision.

• Periapt of Torments (20 pts). Enemy units cannot target this unit with snap shooting attacks. Read that wording rather than the version you may have seen elsewhere: Spectacle of Spite carries an enhancement of the same name at 25 points whose text instead names the Fire Overwatch stratagem. They are different enhancements in different detachments.
• Hyperstimm Trafficker (20 pts). This unit has +1 Toughness. On models that are otherwise wounded on 3s by most of the board, one point of Toughness moves a large slice of incoming fire to 4s.

(Points come from the Munitorum Field Manual and move with updates; confirm in the app.)

Exhibition of Slaughter carries UNIQUE: WYCH CULT, and so does Spectacle of Spite, the 2-DP Combat Drugs detachment. No two detachments in your army may share a Unique Tag, so those two can never be fielded together.

This is worth stating twice because the arithmetic is so inviting: 1 DP + 2 DP = 3 DP, which is exactly a 2,000-point budget, and both detachments buff Wyches. A player who loves Wych Cults will build precisely that list and it is illegal.

The evidence is unambiguous and first-party. The pack prints the UNIQUE: WYCH CULT banner above this detachment and restates the restriction inside the Exacting Cruelty rule text; the Munitorum Field Manual lists the tag on both detachments; Wahapedia agrees.

What this leaves you is the pairing that actually works: a 2-DP core from another pillar or from an untagged detachment, with Exhibition of Slaughter as the 1-DP melee element.

• Wyches are the Battleline WYCH CULT block the rule is written for, and the unit whose Strength the Lethal Hits exist to paper over.
• Succubus is the only legal bearer of either enhancement, so she is a purchase rather than an afterthought.
• Lelith Hesperax is a WYCH CULT Epic Hero and a Succubus, so Exacting Cruelty applies to her, though as an Epic Hero she cannot take an Enhancement.
• Reavers and Hellions are Mounted WYCH CULT units, which is how a melee detachment with no ranged clause actually reaches anything. The pack rewrote the Hellions' Skyboard Evasion into a reactive D6 inch move within 8 inches.
• Raider is the transport that gets Wyches there alive. Note it is not a WYCH CULT unit, so the detachment rule does nothing for its guns.

One omission to note: Hekatrix Bloodbrides are not a datasheet in 11th edition. In the rules mirrors they survive as a Crusade Battle Trait you can give a Wyches unit, not as a unit you can buy and field.

Take it when you own Wyches and want them to matter in the Fight phase for the smallest possible slice of your budget. One Detachment Point for army-wide Lethal Hits on your Wych Cult melee is the best rate in the faction, and it stacks with everything a 2-DP core is doing elsewhere.

Be clear-eyed about the limits. The rule does nothing against Monsters and Vehicles, so a list that leans on it needs real anti-tank from somewhere else. It also does nothing for your Kabalites, your Coven, or your transports. And with only three stratagems it will not soak up command points, which is fine as a support and thin as an only detachment.

Sample gameplan: run it under a 2-DP untagged core such as Skysplinter Assault, so your Wyches disembark with Lance from Rain of Cruelty and Lethal Hits from Exacting Cruelty on the same attack. Put Periapt of Torments on the Succubus leading the squad you most need to arrive intact. Save Planned Strikes for the walker or tank your rule cannot touch, and Acrobatic Display for the shooting phase that would otherwise end the unit.