Spectacle of Spite: The 11th-Edition Drukhari Combat Drugs Detachment

At the start of your Command phase, select which Combat Drugs are active for your army until the start of your next Command phase. You choose how:

• select one from the list, and you cannot select the same one more than once per battle; or
• randomly determine two by rolling two D6, where a drug you selected earlier can come back, and a duplicate roll has no additional effect.

The six, all applying to WYCH CULT models from your army:

1. Adrenalight: +1 Attacks on melee weapons. 2. Hypex: +2 inches Move. 3. Serpentin: +1 Weapon Skill on melee weapons. 4. Painbringer: +1 Toughness. 5. Grave Lotus: +1 Strength on melee weapons. 6. Splintermind: +1 Leadership and +1 Ballistic Skill on ranged weapons.

The interesting decision is the one the rule forces on you every turn. Selecting is guaranteed but each drug is one-use, so a five-turn game burns five of the six and you have to spend the good ones early. Rolling two is better on average and repeatable, but you can roll a duplicate and effectively get one, and you can roll Splintermind on a melee turn.

The pragmatic pattern most lists settle on is to select on the turns where a specific drug decides the game, usually Hypex on the turn you need to reach something or Grave Lotus on the turn you charge, and roll on the quiet turns.

Six, and four of them fire on your opponent's turn or in response to their choices.

• Berserk Fugue (2CP, Fight). After an enemy selects targets, each destroyed model in your Wych Cult unit that has not fought is not removed and fights afterwards.
• Deadly Debut (1CP, Fight). A Drukhari unit that charged this turn gains Lethal Hits on its melee weapons, plus +1 Armour Penetration as well if it is a Wyches unit.
• Feigned Weakness (1CP, your Movement). After a Drukhari unit Falls Back, it is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back.
• Preternatural Agility (1CP, start of your Movement or Charge). A Wych Cult unit ignores any or all modifiers to its Move characteristic and to Advance and Charge rolls, and can move horizontally through models for the rest of the turn.
• A Challenge Met (2CP, opponent's Movement). Rewritten by Faction Pack v1.2, which removed its Restrictions section entirely. When an enemy unit ends a fall-back move, one unengaged Wych Cult unit within 6 inches declares a charge, and can only select enemy units that made a fall-back move this phase and are within the maximum distance.
• Acrobatic Display (1CP, opponent's Shooting). After an enemy selects targets, models in your Wych Cult unit have a 5+ invulnerable save.

Deadly Debut is the one to plan around: it is the only stratagem in the detachment that adds armour penetration, and it is the answer to Wyches bouncing off saves.

All four are SUCCUBUS model only, so the character choice and the enhancement choice are the same decision.

• Periapt of Torments (25 pts). Enemy units cannot use the Fire Overwatch stratagem to shoot at the bearer's unit. Note this is the more expensive of the two enhancements sharing this name: the Exhibition of Slaughter version costs 20 points and is worded around snap shooting attacks instead.
• Morghenna's Curse (20 pts). Improve the Armour Penetration and Damage of the bearer's melee weapons by 1, which turns the Succubus herself into a real threat rather than a buff carrier.
• Pharmacophex (15 pts). After selecting Combat Drugs each Command phase, roll a D6 on the list; that result applies to the bearer's unit in addition to whatever is active army-wide.
• Chronoshard (15 pts). Once per battle, at the start of the Fight phase, models in the bearer's unit gain Fights First for the phase.

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

• Wyches are Battleline Wych Cult infantry, the unit every drug applies to and the only one Deadly Debut upgrades further with armour penetration.
• Succubus is the only legal bearer of all four enhancements.
• Lelith Hesperax takes Combat Drugs like any other Wych Cult model, though as an Epic Hero she cannot carry an Enhancement.
• Reavers and Hellions are Mounted Wych Cult units and gain most from Hypex and from Preternatural Agility ignoring move modifiers.
• Venom is the six-model skimmer that puts a Succubus and her escort within the 6 inch band A Challenge Met measures.

Hekatrix Bloodbrides are not a datasheet in 11th edition; in the rules mirrors they appear as a Crusade Battle Trait for a Wyches unit.

Spectacle of Spite carries UNIQUE: WYCH CULT, and so does Exhibition of Slaughter, the 1-DP Lethal Hits 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 what makes that combination look correct.

So your leftover Detachment Point has to go somewhere else. The honest options are Kabalite Agonysts (1 DP, KABAL), which adds a shooting phase your Combat Drugs do nothing for, and Tools of Torment (1 DP, COVENS), which adds two durable Pain Engines to hold the ground your Wyches cannot.

Both are genuinely good fits precisely because the drugs are wasted on them: nothing you spend on the support duplicates what the core is already doing.

Take it when your collection is Wych Cult first and you want a real core rather than a splash. Six stratagems, four enhancements and an army-wide buff that changes every turn is a much fuller package than the 1-DP Wych detachment, and Combat Drugs give the army a knob to turn in a faction that otherwise mostly asks you to run forward faster.

Be clear-eyed about the limits. Every drug and most of the stratagems name Wych Cult, so a mixed collection pays 2 DP for a rule that touches a third of the army. The one-use restriction on selecting means your best drug is gone by mid-game unless you gamble on the dice. And it is still a Wych list, so it folds when it is caught in the open.

Sample gameplan: put Morghenna's Curse on the Succubus leading your main Wyches block and Pharmacophex on a second Succubus so one unit is always double-drugged. Turn one, select Hypex and close the distance. Turn two, roll two drugs and charge, spending Deadly Debut on the Wyches for Lethal Hits and +1 Armour Penetration. Hold Acrobatic Display for your opponent's shooting phase and A Challenge Met for the moment something tries to fall back out of your reach.