COMBAT PATROL: DRUKHARI - THE BLADES OF TORMENT - Combat Patrol rules overview

Oct 7, 2026

Combat Patrol: Drukhari - The Blades of Torment provides a rules-focused overview for using a Drukhari Combat Patrol force in Combat Patrol games. It lists included units and wargear options, then details the Faction ability Power from Pain, including how Pain tokens are gained and spent to Empower units for phase-specific rerolls. The document also covers enhancements for the Archon (Shudderworm Bottle or Spiteful Predator), secondary objectives (Rapacious Raiders or Murderous Monster), and an example of the stratagem Quicksilver Reactions with its trigger, target, and hit-roll modifier.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryStory & Novel

FormatPDF

Pages7

Reading Time11 min

AccessFree to download

Units included

Faction ability: Power from Pain

Enhancements

Shudderworm Bottle

Spiteful Predator

Secondary objectives

Rapacious Raiders

Murderous Monster

Stratagems

Quicksilver Reactions

The Blades of Torment - Battle Tactic Stratagem

COMBAT PATROL: DRUKHARI THE BLADES OF TORMENT Originally assembled for the terror raids on the night world ofSomniad, Archon Malivex’s warriors have now fought together on numerous realspace raids. The Archon prizes swift and merciless butchery, and it iswell known that he will abandon to a bloody fate any who cannot keep pace with him. As such, his followers strive constantly not only to impress their cruel master with their violent excesses, but also to ensure they never fall behind the quicksilver tempo he sets for his hit-and-run attacks. This Combat Patrol includes the units shown below. A Archon Malivex (1 model) ■ This model is equipped with: splinter pistol; huskblade. B Kabalite Warriors (10 models) ■ 1 Sybarite is equipped with: splinter pistol; Sybarite weapon. ■ 7 Kabalite Warriors are equipped with: splinter rifle; close combat weapon. ■ 1 Kabalite Warrior is equipped with: shredder; close combat weapon. ■ 1 Kabalite Warrior is equipped with: splinter cannon; close combat weapon. D Raider (1 model) ■ This model is equipped with: disintegrator cannon; bladevanes. C Incubi (5 models) ■ 1 Klaivex is equipped with: demiklaives. ■ 4 Incubi are equipped with: klaive. E Ravager (1 model) ■ This model is equipped with: 2 dark lances; disintegrator cannon; bladevanes. | Splinter rifle | | Shredder
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Incubus Klaivex | Demiklaives
Splinter pistol | Sybarite weapon
Sybarite | Disintegrator cannon Dark lance B C A COMBAT PATROL: DRUKHARI THE BLADES OF TORMENT ABILITIES The datasheets required to use the Blades of Torment can be found on the following pages, and are designed exclusively for Combat Patrol games. A unit’s datasheet will list all the abilities it has. This will include a Faction ability – Power from Pain – that is referenced on each unit’s datasheet, and is described below. POWER FROM PAIN The Drukhari are experts in precise torture, sharp blades, cruel poisons and eldritch abominations. Using the labyrinthine network of webway spars, they strike almost anywhere. Realspace raiding parties prey upon worlds across the galaxy, surging from hidden portals unknown to those they see merely as cattle or playthings. As the Drukhari feed on the souls of the slain, they become imbued with supernatural might, eventually turning into killing machines. Units from your army can become Empowered Through Pain. This is done using Pain tokens. You gain 1 Pain token: ■ At the start of the battle. ■ Each time an enemy unit is destroyed. ■ Each time an enemy unit fails a Battle-shock test. Each time you gain a Pain token, keep it to one side – this is your Pain token pool. At the start of any phase, you can expend one or more Pain tokens from your Pain token pool. Each time you do, select one unit from your army with the Power from Pain ability. Until the end of the phase, that unit is Empowered, and gains the abilities listed below, depending on the phase. Empowered in the Movement or Charge phase: You can re-roll Advance or Charge rolls made for that unit. Empowered in the Shooting or Fight phase: Each time a model in that unit makes an attack, you can re-roll the Hit roll. | ENHANCEMENTS | | --- | | Your Archon model is your Warlord and has the Shudderworm Bottle Enhancement. You can replace this with Spiteful Predator. | |
DEFAULT ENHANCEMENT
SHUDDERWORM BOTTLE
Within this inkglass flask writhes a neuroparasite harvested from the webway and wired into a grim invention of the Haemonculi Covens. The squealing, thrashing worm is forced to absorb the psychic soul agonies of the battlefield before vomiting them back out in waves of concentrated misery that – to nearby Drukhari – are like an invigorating tonic.
While the bearer is leading a unit, models in that unit have the Feel No Pain 5+ ability. | |
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OPTIONAL ENHANCEMENT
SPITEFUL PREDATOR
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FAQs

What is Power from Pain in this Combat Patrol, and how does it work?

Power from Pain grants the ability to empower a selected unit by spending Pain tokens. Pain tokens are gained at the start of the battle, when an enemy unit is destroyed, and when an enemy unit fails a Battle-shock test.

When can Pain tokens be spent, and what benefits do they give?

At the start of any phase, you can expend one or more Pain tokens from your Pain token pool. In the Movement or Charge phase you can re-roll Advance or Charge rolls; in the Shooting or Fight phase you can re-roll Hit rolls for attacks made by models in the empowered unit.

What secondary objectives are available for this Combat Patrol?

You use Rapacious Raiders, but you can replace it with Murderous Monster. Rapacious Raiders scores VP by positioning Drukhari units wholly within the opponent’s deployment zone at the end of your turn, while Murderous Monster scores at the end of the Fight phase based on the Archon destroying enemy models that phase.

Oct 7, 2026

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