Kabalite Agonysts: The 11th-Edition Drukhari Kabal Detachment

One clause: friendly BLADES FOR HIRE and KABAL units' ranged attacks have [SUSTAINED HITS 1: non-MONSTER/VEHICLE].

Sustained Hits 1 means every unmodified Hit roll of 6 scores an extra hit. Across a ten-model Kabalite Warriors squad with splinter rifles, that is a meaningful volume increase every single shooting phase, for free, with no setup and no decision to get wrong.

Two details are easy to miss. First, the rule names BLADES FOR HIRE as well as KABAL, so it also covers your mercenaries: Scourges, Incubi, Mandrakes and Drazhar are Blades for Hire units, which is a much wider net than the detachment's name suggests. Second, the Monster and Vehicle restriction means none of this helps you crack armour, so dedicated anti-tank stays a separate job.

The pack states in the rule text itself that this detachment has the KABAL tag and cannot be taken with another KABAL detachment.

Three, all 1CP.

• Prioritised Victim (your Shooting or the Fight). When a friendly BLADES FOR HIRE or KABAL unit targets a Character unit, that unit's attacks against a Character can re-roll Hit rolls of 1 and Wound rolls of 1. It is a character-hunting tool, and it works in both phases.
• Shadows' Reach (your Shooting). When a friendly BLADES FOR HIRE or KABAL unit has shot, those attacks do not prevent your unit from being hidden. Read that precisely: it is a stay-hidden effect, not a cover save and not a defensive buff. It is what lets a long-range unit fire without giving away the position it fired from.
• Killers from the Dark Spires (your Shooting). When a friendly KABALITE WARRIORS unit is selected to shoot, its ranged attacks have Ignores Cover. Note this one names Kabalite Warriors specifically, not the whole detachment, so it does not work on Scourges.

The habit to build: Killers from the Dark Spires is the stratagem that turns a good target into a dead one, so save it for the squad sitting in ruins on the objective you need.

Two, both ARCHON model only.

• Towering Arrogance (15 pts). This unit has +1 Leadership and +1 Objective Control. On a faction that is quick to arrive and bad at staying, extra Objective Control on the block holding your centre is worth more than it looks. Note that Kabalite Cartel carries a 20-point enhancement of the same name, worded around leading a unit rather than on the unit itself.
• Contempt for Rivals (20 pts). This unit's attacks have Precision, which turns the Archon's Kabalite block into a character sniper and pairs directly with the Prioritised Victim stratagem.

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

Kabalite Agonysts carries UNIQUE: KABAL, and so does Kabalite Cartel, the 2-DP Contract detachment. No two detachments in your army may share a Unique Tag, so those two can never be fielded together.

Again the arithmetic is the trap: 1 DP + 2 DP = 3 DP is exactly a 2,000-point budget, and both detachments buff Kabal and Blades for Hire units. Doubling down on the Kabal is precisely what the tag exists to prevent.

The evidence is first-party: the pack prints the UNIQUE: KABAL banner above this detachment and restates the restriction inside the Contracted Harvest rule text, the Munitorum Field Manual lists the tag on both, and Wahapedia agrees.

What you can pair it with instead is any untagged 2-DP core, or a 2-DP core from a different pillar. Skysplinter Assault is the best fit and gets its own note below.

• Kabalite Warriors are Battleline KABAL infantry, the rule's main beneficiary and the only unit Killers from the Dark Spires can target.
• Archon is a KABAL character and the only legal bearer of either enhancement. The pack rewrote his Shadowfield ability, so check the current wording before relying on the save.
• Hand of the Archon is a KABAL infantry unit the rule covers, and one of the two units the wider Kabal toolkit keeps naming.
• Scourges are BLADES FOR HIRE, not KABAL, which is exactly why the rule names both. They also carry the heavy weapons the rule cannot help against Vehicles.
• Ravager is a KABAL Vehicle, so its dark lances are the anti-tank the non-Monster and non-Vehicle restriction leaves you needing. The pack gave it the Frame keyword.
• Venom moves Kabalites around but is not a KABAL unit. The pack rewrote both its Aerialists ability and its transport section, including the clause that splits a Kabalite Warriors, Hand of the Archon or Wyches unit in two before the battle.

Take it when you own Kabalites, when you want the most learnable Drukhari experience, or when you simply want the cheapest real upgrade in the faction. One Detachment Point for Sustained Hits 1 across your whole shooting army is a lot of output for a splash, and it asks nothing of you in return.

Be clear-eyed about the limits. It does nothing against Monsters and Vehicles, nothing for your Wyches or Coven, and with only three stratagems it will not absorb command points. It is a support that happens to be good enough to build around, not a core.

Sample gameplan: pair it with Skysplinter Assault (2 DP). A Kabalite Warriors squad that disembarks from a Raider gets Ignores Cover from Rain of Cruelty and Sustained Hits 1 from Contracted Harvest in the same shooting phase, and Skyborne Annihilation upgrades that same squad to Sustained Hits 2. Put Towering Arrogance on the Archon leading your central block, spend Killers from the Dark Spires on the objective-holder in ruins, and keep Prioritised Victim for the enemy character you need gone.