Drukhari Unit Tier List in Warhammer 40K 10th Edition - Strongest + Weakest Index Drukhari Units 

Grotesques showing up as t5 in my warhammer app?

Grotesques are T5, not T6 (wish they did get an increase in toughness like every other thing in the game tho)

Unless there has been a change, too, I don't think Scourges get Battle Host re-rolls in an Ynnari list.

@@paroxysmal2645Unparalleled Foresight uses the "aeldari" keyword, all drukhari have the aeldari keyword, so it works surprised i don't see more ynnari reavers because 60pts for a rerolling WS3 S14 heat lance seems amazing

@kwombok you're right! I was so sure that Drukhari were locked out of the whole deal, but they would get that single re-roll. I do wish there was an Ynnari detachment to allow stratagems and things for them though

That's because gw don't sell him anymore so noone has any way of getting the models except for paying outrageous prices on ebay

@@pieterhellemans1190 3D printing goes BRRRRRR

A 1/3 of the roster isnt accessible by official means. Want models like the beast master, the Archon's court, or Vect? Better warm up your 3D printer or shell out big bucks in the third party market. Dark Eldar are not a pleasant faction to collect - hence their low player count and sales numbers.

I have a metal one I still haven't painted after like 13 years.

I would simply because of how heavily 10ed DE rely on pain tokens. It's a win more/lose more mechanic. If you don't pick up enough of them earlier you just tend to lose. Conversely, I'd drop wyches down a tier. GW effectively turned them horde unit that require you to run Lelith if you want them running anywhere near what they should be. By themselves, they don't hard enough to justify their glass cannon status, so they only really serve as meat shields for your dark lance units.

Laughs in Green Goblin!

God speed spiderman

flying up to fabius bile 'nnhhaaaa suck my splinter pods, spider chump!"

I must admit I was a bit unclear on that interaction so left it out for sake of not making an error. That does sound like a pretty fun dangerous unit (if quite a pricy one I guess)

I am new to playing WH40k. What rule is about this squad breaking up mechanic? I haven't seen anything like that in 10th ed.

The venom allows you to split a 10 man warrior or wych squad into 2-5 man units. Attach the archon to 1 of them. Then attach the court making a 10 model unit. The court has some handy buffs. Fights 1st and -1 to wound. My last game vs orks they were very handy.

@@Stradus07Ah, so it's a venom specific thing. That wasn't clear to me, but I could find it on the datasheet now. Thanks

@@BoM97652 Not Venom specific, it's a rule of a lot of 6 person transports.

welcome to the dark kin friend

Welcome. If I can make a suggestion, build your first one as a Cronos rather than Talos. It’ll be more immediately impactful. Talos are better run in pairs and especially if you’re flooding the board with 6 of them and a couple Cronos also. Whereas a single Cronos can stretch your pain tokens much further and is very tough for 50 points.

Good for you, it's a great box. I'm having one soon to expand my Craftworlds to Ynnari. Too good to miss.

All the pain and torture they inflict on their slaves forms a sort of shield to slaanesh, it protects their souls from being torn apart. When they enter realspace for raids however slaanesh starts sucking their souls dry immediately, and they then must return to commoragh to recover their souls in all the pain and ecstasy that happens there. So they can't exist in realspace for long or they will be corrupted entirely by slaanesh. Of course you are correct that in doing so they are essentially doing the same thing as slaanesh cultists, just for different reasons

If you read the drukhari lore, like the second thing it says in their codex is that for their decadent ways their souls are constantly and slowly being drained by slaanesh, so now they need to inflict suffering on others to rejuvenate themselves, body and soul, like one needs to breathe, eat, or drink water. According to the ynnari books they can go a few days without living off the suffering of others, but it causes their skin to prune up and their bodies to age rapidly. However in the path of the eldar books there is one case of an ex drukhari finding redemption, but as a consequence of their past, they still cannot use spirit stones (suppose it's called the path of damnation for a reason, dark eldar tarnish all spirit stones they touch, btw). I guess your best chance as a dark eldar might be gambling your soul with ynnead or cegorach.

Not entirely sure what current canon is, but back when the Dark Eldar were first introduced back in 1998 (damn I'm old now) it was hinted/spelled out that Commoragh basically existed outside of the influence of chaos due to being constructed entirely in the webway which unless they manage to breach the powers of chaos can't influence. The Dark Eldar could do whatever they wanted and none of the repercussions, theoretically, reached the warp (though there's always going to be some way for the gods to get what they want and there's no way the webway is completely fool proof. Also as soon as they left the webway all bets were off.) It's one reason why they hunt down and kill active psykers, they're an active threat to the stability of the city and can essentially plunge entire regions of it into the warp. Combine that with the Dark Eldar drawing strength from suffering and it's essentially each of them playing a game of tug-of-war with a chaos god but trying to hide behind a handful of flimsy barricades/fog of war. But yes, essentially you are correct. They're the remnants of the cults that actually birthed Slaanesh, so you could arguably even say that since they're well aware of the repercussions of what they do that at this point they're not even unintentional cultists anymore. Just unwilling/nihilistic ones.

The actions of the Drukhari do benefit Slaanesh indirectly but he/she/they would still much rather gobble them all up if given the chance.

Tier 1 for Dark Eldar is like being the tallest midget.

Dark eldar is shit army

Same here I love the models.

They were my first dark eldar unit as well as one of my favourites in 8th and 9th, you bet I’m still running them.

Wyches Hekatarii blades are AP1+ Lelith AP+1 + Token AP+1 = AP3

@@tsquare2654 Think he's talking about Lelith herself, mate She's AP-2 base, -1 for Token, -1 for her leading a unit = AP4

Give them the infantry keyword. Then they would be much better.

Considering he was basing the list off skysplinter it’s fair actually. They are a self sufficient efficient unit, but get no benefit from the detachment or stratagems. meaning you take out transports and transport capable units to field them since you are probably not dropping scourge or objective play units for them. They are teir one in real space raid with -1 to wound strat and not as much need for transports and melee infantry.

@@iankirkland8245true, but im still running skysplinter as they are as you said, very self sufficient. im considering bumping it down to just 4 though, as the beastmaster is very good and i want to include them

Brides of Death While this model is leading a unit, models in that unit have the Fights First ability, and each time a model in that unit makes a melee attack, add 1 to the Strength characteristic of that attack and improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.

It isn't all darklance spam though. People are starting to take Wyches and Incubi.

@@OniGanon Incubi are worth taking now since you can finally pair your archon with them - effectively meaning you're not diminishing both the archon and the kabalite warrior squad he was attached to -, and wyches basically serve as glorified meat shields for your dark lance units - either by screening enemy ranged units or tieing up enemy melee. As things are right now, if you want to run a list themed more heavily towards the wych or haemonculi cults you are punished for doing so. GW just sort of ignored the fact the DE are effectively three mini-factions slammed into one - opting to focus the lion's share of attention and effectiveness on kabalite units.

They have the Aeldari keyword so they can benefit from the rerolls

@@dakotamccaig3783but they dont have "unparalleled foresight" ability. So I assume we cant reroll drukhari units

Unparalleled foresight is the aeldari detachment, not a datasheet ability , a ynnari list would go into such detachment and the only keyword it checks for the rerolls is 'Aeldari', which all drukhari units have. You can't use fate dice however since drukhari do not have the strands of fate ability@@MrRogalick