How to Fully Eliminate and Reanimate your Enemy (V.2)

**Lamoron** · 10-11-2011, 11:09 PM

Welcome to the archive. This is an attempt at organizing the many great articles concerning the forces of Cryx. PM me suggestions if you'd like something added to the lists.

In addition to the tactical advice, I've gathered up a few useful articles on subjects related to behavior on the forum. The Cryx Faction forum is already the friendliest place on the forums, and we'd love to keep it that way!

Seeking advice

I've also added articles on tactics and strategy, as well as tools and theories on Warmachines/Hordes, or wargaming in general. This will also be home to the articles that don't really belong in one of the other categories.

Requests for articles should be posted in the thread, but the thread should not be used for long discussions. If you feel the need to comment extensively on something, please create a new thread and link to the relevant post instead.

**Lamoron** · 10-12-2011, 02:39 AM

Warcasters:

Iron Lich Asphyxious

Lich Lord Asphyxious

Warwitch Deneghra

Wraith Witch Deneghra

Goreshade the Bastard

Goreshade the Cursed

Master Necrotech Mortenebra

Lord Exhumator Scaverous

Skarre, the Pirate Queen

Skarre, Queen of the Broken Coast

Lich Lord Terminus

Lich Lord Venethrax

The Witch Coven

**Lamoron** · 10-13-2011, 01:39 AM

Warjacks:

Corruptor

Deathripper

Desecrator

Erebus

Harrower

Helldiver

Leviathan

Malice

Nightmare

Nightwretch

Ripjaw

Reaper

Scavenger

Seether

The Deathjack

Wraith Engine

**Lamoron** · 10-13-2011, 03:02 AM

Units:

Bane Knights

Bane Thralls

Bile Thralls

Blackbane's Ghost Raiders

Blood Witches

Bloodgorgers

Mechanithralls

Satyxis Raiders

The Withershadow Combine

**Lamoron** · 10-13-2011, 06:58 AM

Solos:

Darragh Wrathe

Machine Wraith

Pistol Wraith

Skarlock Thrall

Warwitch Siren

**Lamoron** · 10-13-2011, 10:21 PM

Mercenaries:

Croe's Cutthroats

Dougal MacNaile

Gorman di Wulfe

Madelyn Corbeau

Orin Midwinter

Rorsh & Brine

Saxon Orrik

Wrong Eye & Snapjaw

**Lamoron** · 10-14-2011, 01:01 AM

Seeking advice

How you behave is crucial to the image you'll have here, so I recommend you read my guide on being a new forumite and arguing on the internet.

Before asking your first question, you should read the sticky with answers to most common questions here. In addition to these articles, I'm gathering a list of useful articles, about finding and requesting information.

List building, by Cole
List building, by Hoya
Posting lists, by 69 Lazarus
Expanding the Battlebox, by juckto
Expanding the Battlebox, by Kuwanger23

If you're seeking advice on beating a specific faction or caster, you can visit their faction tactica. This will supply you with a better understanding of the problems you face (or simply answer your question), and will allow you to ask more relevant questions on the forum.

And finally some articles I find very interesting, and think could be useful to a Cryx player.

Exploiting Vengeance (Trollblood article about deployment)

**Lamoron** · 10-14-2011, 02:10 AM

Tactics & Gameplay

A gathering of articles about tactics, gameplay, and sportsmanship. This is the place where you can find articles that relate to general strategy instead of specific models, and general advice on playing the game.

Becoming a better player, by Cole
Dicemath, by Spud
How to win, by Mod_Josh
Maximum damage / Minimum retaliation, by LAWwaldo
Threat density, by Lux
Unconventional measuring methods

I've also linked a couple of articles about tools and tactics to use in miniature wargaming, which I think you might find interesting.

Tools:

Buffers, by Lamoron
Deterrents, by Lamoron
Sweepers, by Lamoron
Screens, by Lamoron
Pushers, by Lamoron
Gobbers, by Spud

Tactics:

Refused Flank, by LAWwaldo
Dealing with Stealth, by Lux
Slamming 101, by Lux
Jamming, by relasine

Theory:

Spotting Linchpins, by Lamoron
Threat Assessment, by Lamoron
Threat Assessment, by relasine
Assessing the battlefield, at Lost Hemisphere
Water Theory, by Lamoron
Psychlogical Warfare, by Lamoron
Psychlogical Warfare, at Trollblood Scrum
Resource Management, by Ian Philipchuk
Staying ahead, by HERO
Staying positive, by Warhammer Tau
Play like you have no pair!, by HERO

**Lamoron** · 10-14-2011, 05:30 AM

Templates, Counters, and other useful thingymajigs

This is where you can find links to things like activation order sheets, smoke templates, tokens, and whatever else I think you might find useful.

**Obeisance** · 10-14-2011, 08:29 AM

Gorman di Wulfe, Rogue Awesome

Perhaps one of the most commonly seen Mercs in the Cryx army, is Gorman. There's a pretty good reason for that- I can say without a doubt, he's the best 2pts you can spend. A great little toolbox and game swinger. But why, you ask? Let's look at what he does.

Decent SPD, ok RAT, standard DEF/ARM for a solo. Pretty squishy, so he relies on Stealth to keep in the game. He's also immune to Fire and Corrosion, which gives Legion fits. When it comes to multi-type weapons, if you're immune to one, you're immune to all. Legion beasts can't shoot him- besides the Bolt Thrower. Typhon, Seraph, Angel, Ravagore- no dice. His Alchemical Mask lets him ignore clouds for LOS and Gas effects- but the only Gas effect is from Trenchers, I believe.

When playing defensively, you have Smoke Bombs. Place a 3" cloud AOE within 1" of Gorman. This can either give your caster Conceal (+2 DEF) or screen it from shooting entirely. Watch out for trying to scatter AOE's on squishy casters from Gorman himself, though.

Alchemical Flasks
Let's talk about his flasks. They're all RNG 6"/3" AOE's and low RAT, but his RAT is largely irrelevant.

Acid Bomb: The best thing about this bomb, is that it doesn't do blast damage. All models hit suffer a POW 12 corrosion damage roll and continuous corrosion. It's pretty sweet for taking down clumped up infantry, or the occasionaly solo.

Rust: Jacks hit suffer -2 ARM. You can stack it with other Debuffs, like Dark Shroud, Parasite/Grasp and pDenny's feat. Generally, it's not something you'll use all that often.

Black Oil: This is the money, right here. Models hit at Blind. It does no damage, but who cares- a Blind model is going to die.. or be taken out of the game for a turn. It suffers -4 DEF/MAT, can't run/charge/make ranged or magic attacks and has to forfiet either movement or action next turn. So. Good.

Deviating Flasks
So you're thinking- he's only SPD 6, RAT 5 with 6" tossed flash, that's crap, right? As I said earlier, his RAT really doesn't factor into it. It's all about how maximum deviation works. When you miss with an AOE, the maximum distance it can scatter is half the distance between between the point of origin and the target. So Gorman advances 4" away from a small based target. Lobs a Black Oil flask. Misses because his RAT sucks.. but the maximum deviation is 2" which results in the Black oil not being able to miss. In essence, the closer you are the less the Oil can deviate.

**FeignLife** · 10-15-2011, 12:50 AM

Not gonna lie, I had to rush this a lil' bit, but it's done.

Wrong Eye and Snapjaw

**Lamoron** · 10-15-2011, 02:03 AM

Originally Posted by FeignLife

Not gonna lie, I had to rush this a lil' bit, but it's done.

Wrong Eye and Snapjaw

It's still a great read

Edit: Added.

**Lamoron** · 10-15-2011, 02:18 PM

Lord Exhumator Scaverous added, and boy that took a while to write.

**Lamoron** · 10-16-2011, 04:54 PM

Bloodgorgers added.

**Darkness is Rising** · 10-18-2011, 08:47 AM

I submitted a guide to the Harrower.

**FeignLife** · 10-18-2011, 11:24 PM

I can attempt to do an Erebus guide soonish. I seem to have grown an unreasonable fondness for the lil' bugger.

I also have like 20+ games in with the Corruptor back when I was trying sooooooo hard to make him work, but I can't promise a wholly positive write-up. :x

**Lamoron** · 10-18-2011, 11:41 PM

Originally Posted by FeignLife

I can attempt to do an Erebus guide soonish. I seem to have grown an unreasonable fondness for the lil' bugger.

I also have like 20+ games in with the Corruptor back when I was trying sooooooo hard to make him work, but I can't promise a wholly positive write-up. :x

Go for the Corruptor, and guides should be realistic, not positive

**FeignLife** · 10-19-2011, 12:09 AM

Originally Posted by Lamoron

Go for the Corruptor, and guides should be realistic, not positive

You asked for it

**Lamoron** · 10-19-2011, 12:22 AM

Originally Posted by FeignLife

You asked for it

I'm a bad boy, and that's how I roll

**Lamoron** · 10-19-2011, 12:56 AM

Obeisance just posted a small guide for the Corruptor, and it's entirely negative. Your job just changed to finding something useful for it to do Feign

**Lamoron** · 10-19-2011, 11:03 AM

Due to immense failure on my part to recognize that one post isn't enough for an entire archive like this, I'm having a couple of posts removed, in order to move my own posts up (I've talked to the mods, and there's no easier way).

Edit: Done. A huge thanks to Faultie for his work!

**FeignLife** · 10-19-2011, 08:48 PM

Originally Posted by Lamoron

Obeisance just posted a small guide for the Corruptor, and it's entirely negative. Your job just changed to finding something useful for it to do Feign

All of my hate...

**Lamoron** · 10-19-2011, 11:59 PM

Originally Posted by FeignLife

All of my hate...

I haz it!

**Lamoron** · 10-20-2011, 03:28 AM

Right then. Major overhaul, so let me know what you think, and suggestions on additional articles are welcome. Do we need some fancy graphics, or is it fine as it is?

/Lamoron

**Ulli** · 10-20-2011, 04:29 AM

Some space for Battle Engines is missing ;-)

BTW: great job!

**Lamoron** · 10-20-2011, 05:53 AM

Originally Posted by Ulli

Some space for Battle Engines is missing ;-)

BTW: great job!

He'll be put under Warjacks in a separate box when someone bothers to write something about him

**Lamoron** · 10-22-2011, 03:58 AM

Leviathan added.

Edit: I won't post every new addition in a separate post, so check in on "Updates" in the first post.

**warder808@hotmail.com** · 10-25-2011, 06:30 AM

Just started playing WM as Cryx about 2 months ago. Im very glad to see this thread updated. Lots of useful stuff so far.

**NEoJoe** · 11-02-2011, 12:47 AM

Aw man. I feel kinda bad now. I stopped by here a few months ago and saw the horrible disarray of the old Lich Lords Annihilation thread, so I figured I'd ask Vader to fix it. Well I saw him a few times over and over and forget to tell him. FINALLY last Thursday I told him that the poor Cryx guys were languishing in all their outdated info. He joked about how his true love was with Trolls now but said he'd see about getting around to straightening things up. Now I see you guys already did that! Bravo Lamoron and everyone else.

**Lamoron** · 11-02-2011, 09:51 AM

It's getting there

Added Rorsh & Brine in the mercenary section.

**Lamoron** · 11-04-2011, 03:37 PM

Updated the Scavenger article.

**FeignLife** · 11-06-2011, 08:22 PM

Sorry Lam. I tried.

The Corruptor. That Other Guide.

That took way too long. :/ Erebus on the way.

**Dracon** · 11-08-2011, 03:18 AM

One thing about pistol wraiths with the BE- they won't compete for souls. This is because the pistol wraith gains a soul when it kills a model, not when a model is killed near it. Thus, it and another model could both get soul tokens. This is proven again in the fluff which doesn't say he drinks in the souls, but rather, just gets a mass of pleasure from killing an enemy.

**Lamoron** · 11-08-2011, 03:21 AM

Is that a comment on Gentleben's Wraith Engine tactica?

**Dracon** · 11-08-2011, 04:41 AM

Yeah, He stated somewhere in it about that. I could be wrong, but thats what it seems like to me.

**Ulli** · 11-08-2011, 11:06 PM

A model gives each token only once!
So if trooper A is dying, only one soultoken, one bodytoken, etc. pp. is given to nearby models.

**Lamoron** · 11-09-2011, 12:19 AM

Ah, found it. It's a comment about the fact, that the models the Wraith Engine supports, cannot support it in return.

It?s probably just that I have yet to find a good synergy between the Wraith Engine and the other incorporeal models Cryx has. Most of the time they will compete for souls, since Pistol Wraiths want soul tokens for themselves and Blackbane?s Ghoat Raiders remove models from play. - Gentleben.

Both Pistol Wraiths and Blackbane's, steal the souls that would otherwise go the the WE.

**Barrynstein** · 11-09-2011, 07:47 AM

I would dare say that the WE's necessity to have souls to be able to use it's cloud ability borders on skornergy since you almost always want something else to get the soul instead. I am kind of hoping that gets changed at some point as that ability is pretty useless in most cases.

**Kidney-Snatcher** · 11-09-2011, 01:02 PM

First I need to say how amazing this thread really is. And it's obviously done by a few very dedicated cryxians that make all of the others proud to serve the Dragonfather by your side.

I have a request, that is a tactica on dealing with gunlines of the different types that causes some of the cryx players severe headaches. Really just a walk through on how to play, tricks, army composition and so on.

**Zato** · 11-14-2011, 07:43 AM

Since people actually seemed to like my eGoreshade-guide I'm writing one the Nightmare as we speak, but it's gonna take awhile. But just letting you know.

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