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Cryx is a nation of undead necromancers and piratical raiders. Cryx armies are typically fast, numerous and lightly-armored. The poor quality of their troops is offset by the power of their warcasters, which rank among the strongest in the game. Cryx is mostly based around melee, soul-powered magic, returning models to play, debuffs, and corrosive attacks.

For backstory, refer to Lore - Cryx.

Cryx for Beginners

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Lich Lord Asphyxious
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Soul Trapper

Playstyle

Welcome to the service of Dragonfather Toruk. Here as a member of the Nightmare Empire, your army will typically Template:Star benefit from these strengths...

  • Good at melee
  • Fast troops
  • Good at ignoring terrain for movement purposes. Sometimes able to move through enemies, too.
  • Good at magic, especially debuffing the enemy models
  • Access to cheap and fast arc nodes to let you cast spells far and wide
  • Access to extremely cheap units, letting you field large swarm-style armies
  • Access to corrosive attacks
  • Recursion to bring back the dead
  • Some use of enemy souls.
  • Cheap, hard hitting heavy warjacks
  • The best inventory of light warjacks in the game.

Naturally these come with a cost. Your army will typically Template:Star suffer these weakness...

  • Poor shooting capabilities; Cryx are almost certain to lose in a firefight.
  • Poor stat lines on the troops. Less accurate, less durable, etc
  • Little access to buffs (Cryx normally debuffs the enemy instead)
  • No special orders (such as Shield Wall) available to the troops.
  • A smaller range of mercenaries available for hire.
  • Low durability compared to the sturdier factions like Khador or Skorne. You will lose most long battles.
  • Many lackluster heavy warjacks.

Template:Star Everything given above is typical only. It is entirely possible to build a Cryx army that is good at shooting, or slow and durable - there are just fewer ways to do it successfully than in other factions. However, for the most part, think close fast and smash everything quickly.

Aesthetic

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Mortenebra, Numen of Necrogenesis

Cryx models are either eerie, mechanikal undead or evil pirates of various races, living or otherwise.

The warjacks are designed with a malicious, heavy metal aspect.

Everything is designed to exude malice. Hooks, blades, barbs and spikes abound.

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Deathjack, the spikyest evilest robot

Starter Sets

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Starter Set

2016 Mk3 Battlegroup

The battlegroup box is a good way to meet the defining traits of Cryx; high mobility, excessive use of Arc Nodes, de-buff stacking and movement shenanigans.


2016 Two Player Battlebox

  • Contains 14 Cryx models, plus a bunch of Cygnar models (that you can give or sell to a friend).
    • The same 4 models as the Mk3 Battlegroup set above, plus
    • a unit of Bane Warriors (10 models).

The 2 player box enters you into the realm of units, with all their extra rules. As the enemy will likely field units of their own, the Soul manipulation mechanism of Agathia will possibly see play too. Soul gathering is often present in Cryx, but will not come up in small games which are instead full of robots.


2018 Theme Force Starter
Scourge of the Broken Coast Template:Small

This set is designed to be an add-on to your other purchases, rather than be a 'army in a box' by itself (because it doesn't include a warcaster or warjacks, which are compulsory parts of your army).

Other good early purchases

The Mk3 battlebox described above is decent first buy, but not essential. Otherwise, newbie-friendly models include:

  • Warcasters:
    • Asphyxious1, Skarre1, and Deneghra1 are all relatively straightforward casters to learn with, and they're also good in the long run because they're each quite powerful.
    • Asphyxious3 and Terminus are also relatively straightforward, but tend to only have one style of army that they work with so they shoehorn you a bit more than the first three.
    • Avoid Coven and Scaverous until you're experienced, as they are the most un-straightforward.
  • Arc Nodes: There are four types to choose from, but you'll mostly use the the cheapest ones so get 2x Deathrippers (6 points). In some games you'll have a point left over, so it's worth owning 1x Nightwretch (7 points).
    • Note that arc nodes are sold in packs of two.
  • Light warjacks: Other than arc nodes, grab one or two Stalkers.
  • Heavy warjacks: Get Barathrum and Kharybidis. Then you'll probably want to wait and play a few games before getting any more heavy warjacks, especially if you already got the mk3 battlebox.


After that, what you should buy first really depends on which theme force you like the look of. You'll want to get a unit or two and some solos. For each theme I recommend (as of 2020.06):


Each theme force allows you to take up to one Mercenary unit and one Mercenary solo (called the Merc slot). Some Mercenaries are Partisans and if you choose one of those, sometimes they don't use up the Merc slot (it depends on the theme).
For Cryx, the popular mercenaries are (as of 2021.05):

External Articles

2021.07 Cryx Warjacks Deep Dive by Blake

Blake goes through the entire stable of Cryx warjacks and talks about what makes them good or not good, where they fit in, and if they have any special casters or other models that get the most from them. As of October 2021 most of the points are inaccurate but the functions are the same.


2020.09 LOS Article Brawlmachine List Building - Cryx by Phillip Melvin

Phillip wrote an excellent article for how to start Cryx. It is based on the newbie-friendly Brawlmachine format (25 point limit).

The article contains a different list for each Cryx theme, and advice on how to expand those lists beyond 25 points.


2016.04 Cryx Preview by Privateer Press

Just before the launch of the mk3 ruleset, the game developers did a series of Insider articles about what they saw as each Faction's "Core Identity". Although it's dated now, it's still an interesting insight.

Theme Forces

Starting a Theme Force

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Goreshade, Lord of Ruin

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Black Industries

Cryx’s necrofactoriums churn out a seemingly endless supply of bonejacks and helljacks to wreak havoc on the Dragonfather’s enemies. These black-iron creations fall upon their prey like a pack of hungry beasts indulging in wanton slaughter. Attending the warjacks are a small army of necrotechs, ironmongers, and other specialists who keep the machines operating at peak ferocity.

Black Industries has two aspects: warjacks (and lots of them) and thralls (the cheap and disposable undead cannon fodder of Cryx). If you want to play with a lot of warjacks, or a lot of steampunk zombies, then this is the theme for you.

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Here's some examples of the model aesthetic for this theme

Dark Host

Torn from the horrors of the void and given new forms in the bodies of the dead, banes are dark, sinister warriors in the service of Cryx. Far from mindless, they possess a military cunning mixed with an utter malevolence to life. Supported by potent necromancers, armies of horrifying banes beset the enemy like a tide of darkness and death.

Dark Host is all about Banes, the elite undead of Cryx.

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Here's some examples of the model aesthetic for this theme

Scourge of the Broken Coast

Borne on a black tide to bring death and suffering to the mainland, the pirates of Cryx instill terror in the hearts of those who live on the Broken Coast. Comprised of swift Satyxis and merciless Black Ogrun, raiding parties join Cryx's warcasters and their battlegroups in executing their bloody assaults.

Scourge of the Broken Coast is about the living warriors of Cryx. You have the Satyxis, who are the vicious lady pirates with a dollop of blood sacrifice magic thrown in. Then there are Blighted Trollkin, the literally bloodthirsty trolls. There are Black Ogrun who have multiple hitpoints and prefer ranged weapons. Lastly are the various "normal" humans such as the Scharde pirates and the Warwitch Sirens.

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Here's some examples of the model aesthetic for this theme

The Ghost Fleet

The cursed pirates of the Ghost Fleet are locked in undeath. Nothing can destroy the revenants bound to Captain Rengrave so long as the blighted fires of the black ship Atramentous still burn, and the ghostly crews of countless wraith ships cannot be touched by the mundane weapons of men. The undead armada terrorizes coastal towns and port cities and preys upon the vessels of every nation that dares sail the waters of the Meredius. The Ghost Fleet is responsible not only for harassing targets, but also for distracting the mainlanders so that the Nightmare Empire might conduct its more sensitive operations in relative secrecy.

The Ghost Fleet is all about zombie pirates and ghost pirates. It is very recursive (lots of zombies regenerate every turn).

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Here's some examples of the model aesthetic for this theme

Models

Model Gallery

Refer to Cryx Gallery

Warcasters

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Aiakos1 Refer to Cryx solos, below

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Asphyxious4 Refer to Cryx units, below

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Deathjack1 Refer to Cryx warjacks, below

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Deneghra0 Refer to Cryx solos, below

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Goreshade4 Refer to Retribution warcasters

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Sturgis1 Refer to Cygnar warcasters

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Desecrator
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Stalker

Warjacks

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Wraith Engine
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Black Ogrun Smog Belchers

Battle Engines

Units

(Asphyxious1 to 3 are warcasters, above)

Solos

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Bloat Thrall

Mercenaries that work for Cryx

Refer to Who works for Whom and/or Category: Cryx Mercenary

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