Kabalite Cartel: The 11th-Edition Drukhari Contract Detachment

At the start of the first battle round, select one of three Contracts, then select one enemy unit matching that Contract's description. Until the Contract is completed, that unit is your Contract unit, and KABAL and BLADES FOR HIRE units from your army have the ability the Contract grants.

• Trophy Hunters. Contract: one Character unit. Ability: your Kabal and Blades for Hire attacks against the Contract unit have Precision.
• Sow Fear and Terror. Contract: one Infantry or Mounted unit, excluding units containing only Character models, and it completes when all non-Character models in it are destroyed. Ability: your attacks against any Infantry or Mounted unit have Sustained Hits 1.
• Show of Strength. Contract: one Monster or Vehicle unit. Ability: your attacks against any Monster or Vehicle unit have Lethal Hits.

At the start of your Command phase, if your Contract unit is destroyed the Contract is completed and you gain 3 Pain tokens.

The design is smarter than it first reads. Two of the three Contracts grant an ability against a whole category, not just against the named unit, so Sow Fear and Terror is really an army-wide anti-infantry buff and Show of Strength is an army-wide anti-tank buff. The named unit is the price of admission and the 3-token bounty, not the target of the effect.

That also means your choice at the start of the battle is a read of your opponent's list. Against a horde, take Sow Fear and Terror. Against armour, take Show of Strength. Trophy Hunters is the narrow one, and it is mostly for a list already built to reach characters.

Six, all 1CP.

• Enemies Without Number (your Command). Just after completing a Contract, an Archon Warlord selects a new Contract, including one you have already completed, and a new matching enemy unit on the battlefield. This is what stops the detachment from switching itself off in the mid-game, and it is the reason your Warlord should be an Archon.
• Tailored Toxins (your Shooting or the Fight). A Kabal or Blades for Hire unit that has not been selected this phase scores Critical Hits on unmodified Hit rolls of 5+ against your Contract unit.
• Taken Alive (Fight). A Drukhari unit that has not fought adds 1 to its Hit rolls, and if the Contract unit dies to those attacks every enemy unit takes a battle-shock test, capped at 3 Pain tokens gained from the resulting failures.
• Making a Point (your Shooting). A Kabalite Warriors or Hand of the Archon unit that has not shot improves the Ballistic Skill and Armour Penetration of its ranged weapons by 1.
• Deadly Deceivers (opponent's Shooting). After an enemy selects targets, your targeted Kabal or Blades for Hire unit can only be targeted by ranged attacks from within 18 inches for the rest of the phase.
• Double-Cross (Fight). Attacks allocated to your targeted Kabal or Blades for Hire unit make no saving throw; instead a nominated friendly non-Vehicle Drukhari unit within Engagement Range of the attacker suffers mortal wounds equal to the attack's Damage. It is a damage-redirection tool, so read it carefully before spending it.

The turn to plan for is Contract completion: Tailored Toxins and Taken Alive together give you a very high chance of finishing the named unit, which pays 3 Pain tokens and lets Enemies Without Number start a fresh Contract in the same Command phase.

All four are ARCHON model only, and the spread of prices is the widest in the faction.

• Informant Network (30 pts). At the start of the Declare Battle Formations step, up to three Kabalite Warriors or Hand of the Archon units gain Infiltrators. The most expensive enhancement Drukhari have, and the one that changes deployment rather than a dice roll.
• Webway Awl (25 pts). Models in the bearer's unit gain Deep Strike, and you can target the bearer's unit with the Rapid Ingress stratagem for 0CP.
• Towering Arrogance (20 pts). While the bearer leads a unit, improve the Leadership and Objective Control of models in that unit by 1. Note the Kabalite Agonysts detachment carries a 15-point enhancement of the same name, worded on the unit rather than on leading it.
• Leechbite Plate (5 pts). The bearer has a 3+ Save, and at the start of either player's Command phase you can spend 1 Pain token to restore all its lost wounds. Five points for a character that is very hard to finish off.

• Archon is the only legal bearer of all four enhancements, and an Archon Warlord is a hard requirement for Enemies Without Number. If you take this detachment, your Warlord is an Archon.
• Kabalite Warriors are Kabal Battleline that get the Contract ability, and one of the two units both Making a Point and Informant Network name.
• Hand of the Archon is the other unit those two name specifically.
• Incubi are Blades for Hire, so they collect the Contract ability without being a Kabal unit, and they are how a Trophy Hunters contract on a character actually gets closed.
• Ravager is a Kabal Vehicle, which is the platform that turns a Show of Strength contract into dead enemy armour.
• Lady Malys is a Kabal Archon Epic Hero. The pack rewrote her Mind Like a Steel Trap ability into a once-per-turn stratagem tax, so check the current wording.

Kabalite Cartel carries UNIQUE: KABAL, and so does Kabalite Agonysts, the 1-DP shooting detachment. No two detachments in your army may share a Unique Tag, so those two can never be fielded together, and 2 DP + 1 DP = 3 DP is exactly the sum that makes the combination look correct.

It stings a little more here than elsewhere, because Sow Fear and Terror grants Sustained Hits 1 against Infantry and Mounted units and Contracted Harvest grants Sustained Hits 1 against everything that is not a Monster or Vehicle. Those two obviously want to be in the same army, which is exactly why they are not allowed to be.

Spend your leftover Detachment Point on Tools of Torment (1 DP, COVENS) for a durable anchor, or Exhibition of Slaughter (1 DP, WYCH CULT) for a melee finisher that can close a Trophy Hunters contract.

Take it when your collection is Kabal first and you want a real core with six stratagems and four enhancements rather than the single-clause 1-DP version. It also rewards players who like to read the opposing list and commit, because the Contract choice happens before the first turn and shapes what your whole army is good at.

Be clear-eyed about the sourcing. This is the weakest-evidence page in our Drukhari set: the Faction Pack does not print it and does not name it, so everything except the DP cost, force disposition, tag and enhancement points comes from community mirrors. Confirm the wording in the app before a tournament.

And be clear-eyed about the design. The rule is conditional on a unit your opponent controls. If they hide the Contract unit, you may never collect the 3 Pain tokens, and if they kill it themselves, you still complete it. Trophy Hunters in particular is dead weight against a list with no reachable characters.

Sample gameplan: make your Archon the Warlord and give him Leechbite Plate so he survives to use Enemies Without Number all game. Read the enemy list and take Show of Strength against armour or Sow Fear and Terror against bodies. Shoot the Contract unit with Making a Point and, once it is in reach, finish it with Tailored Toxins and Taken Alive in the same Fight phase. Bank the 3 Pain tokens, take a new Contract in your Command phase, and repeat.