cryx

Deco · Post by **Deco** » 9 Feb 2007, o 12:25

So Demi, my worst enemy, be my best ally and take this card with you today. :rose:

Angel_of_Menoth · Post by **Angel_of_Menoth** » 9 Feb 2007, o 17:30

my bad. i hardly ever play Eiryss, so I forget what phantom seeker ignores. I much prefer taking an Amon list and throwing 4" AOEs with the Vanquisher at him.

Remember, Gorman is not fearless. Doom Reavers and other things that cause terror can scare him off the battlefield.

@ToMaZ - add in Kell for your unofficial 5th Widowmaker.

Post by **Demi_morgana** » 6 Mar 2007, o 15:56

I know there's topic about dirty tricks on PP forum... but I can't resist posting here what I managed to do during the last battle

my cryx army led by goreshade was facing karchev (yup: that big, mean, almost undestructable caster jack

), until the troops came really close I wasn't sure how to bite such a piece of junk but all in all...
I started by shooting karchev with pistol wraith: while frozen by wraithlocks he had do forfeit moveing or action but I also casted mage blight; karchev couldn't engage any of my models and I was reary to throw black oil on it next turn - seriously debuffing stats + NO casting spells!
nasty...

Post by **Demi_morgana** » 7 Mar 2007, o 21:31

today I tested fighting iron lich - for two rounds I was sure I'm gonna loose but all in all deathjack + harrower ate karchev alive!
muahahahha...!!! black oil + scything touch + parasite + 2 hungry helljacks = death of whatever dares to stand on their path!

Post by **Demi_morgana** » 3 Jun 2007, o 09:58

after long break we finally had warmachine game!

last night cryx led by mean b!tch skarre kicked kradorian panzer-ass

because I painted skarre some time ago but had no opportinity to test her I wanted to surprise my opponent and decided she'll lead cryx instead good-ole-mageblight-spammer goreshade the "B";
my junk:

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-skarre
-deathjack
-bane thralls
-mechanithralls
-bile thralls
-2 pistol wraihs
-machine wraith
-gorman di wulffe

what I learnt:
as it was my 1st battle using new warcaster I wasn't sure what can expect from her - I know I'll be using sartificial lamb and sactificial strike as often as I can - these two surprised me really nice: during my final round skarre had 12 FOC points - all used against karchev!

-skarre: nasty caster - even more: VERY nasty! although I didn't get the opportunity to get into melee her spells and special action were enough to turn khador caster into pile of junk; nasty combo was getting bane thralls into btb contact with karchev (-2 ARM because of dark shroud ), then launching feat (-5 life boxes on skarre but all cryx models in her control area fot +5 STR and ARM), than sactificial strike on bane thrall (boosted hit causing 15+5+3d6 damage against 18 ARM of karchev) and finally hellfire 3 times in a row - two of the boosted

-deathjack: killed eiryss with necrivent and grey lords with fly's kiss - that was fun watching lords' leader exploding and killing his brothers in arms

-bane thralls, mechanithralls, bile thralls: used for feeding deathjack and skarre; too bad bane thralls had no opportinity to engage enemy units but sacrificial strike artillery worked well enough as well

-2 pistol wraihs: death chilling enemy jacks - nothing new but that's what these guys do the best

-machine wraith: nothing worth mentioning this time

-gorman: as always placing smoke bombs and during final round hit karchev and destroyer with black oil drastically decreasing their defence and blinding them; still one of my fav units

next time I hope to test denegra or the coven if I manage to paint them on time

DiaCon · Post by **DiaCon** » 3 Jun 2007, o 19:59

soo who is better goreshade or skarre?

Post by **Demi_morgana** » 3 Jun 2007, o 20:15

these two are totally different casters: both require different tactics: goreshade is imo "supporting" caster while skarre can get into melee and mess with anyone (her "feat" + knocking down attack)
I must say I was really enjoying that game - probably because I've been using goreshade only for too long time

I want to test another army led by skarre - I'll probably drop one of thralls units and machine wraith to get some arn nodes: during last battle I really regreted I had 4-5 unspent FOC points for 3 rounds and no way to cast boosted hellfire or fly's kiss on creeping grey lords

Post by **Demi_morgana** » 6 Jun 2007, o 22:48

today I had a pleasure to play using skarre once again:
her self-mutilation abilities are incredible... and extremly dangerous!

Post by **Demi_morgana** » 10 Jun 2007, o 00:05

tonight 2 games against khador using skarre and deneghra...
karchev towing kodjaks which can charge after that is a sh!t uber all sh!ts!!!

EDIT:
several thoughts after getting sober ^^
*in the first battle cryx force was lead by skarre - I fielded lots of infantry but no hard-hitting units (no bane thralls, no DJ...); I was afraid that wihout any debuffs skarre will have problems with damaging khadorian heavy jacks but all in all it wasn't impossible; besides game without DJ or banes was really nice change - and surprise for the opponent

*in second battle I fielded denehgra - IIRC for the very first time after I learnt how to play... the battle was over in the second turn and denny survived with single damage box!

conclusions:
-deneghra: the b!tch has great set or really sweet debuffs and upkeep spells, even more nasty if there're banes or gorman around
-atramentous crew: ridiculous cc weapon (p+s=9...) and pretty expensive (77pts for base squad) but thanks to the deathbound they're great for holding heavy jacks still;
-necrotech: one of rare games when that model wasn't useless

immobilise works really fine, too bad the necrotech is so slow and fragile
-bloat thrall: great for solving problems of doom reavers or alexia's deaders crew; it's good to have atramentous crew and bloat in the battlegroup: bloat's ranged attack causes cmd check, and fleeing units in pirates' cmd range make them immune to damages for one round!

-kodiak: hate them - if affected by karchev's tow they can move 12" dragged by the caster and after that can charge for free - another 7"!!!

Deco · Post by **Deco** » 10 Jun 2007, o 18:14

Kodiak charged for free because Karchev use his feat, Demi. Berserkers can charge without focus, Kodiaks run.