Editing Warjack (section)

==[[Cryx]]==

Cryxian light warjacks, called "Bonejacks", are almost all based on the same squat, two-limbed design, earning them the nickname "chickens". The only ones that aren't different models are the burrowing Helldiver, the stealthy assassiny Stalker and Lord Asphyxious' pet scavenger Cankerworm. They are pretty terrible in a straight-up fight and are generally used as vehicles for an Arc Node (a kind of magic repeater that allows warcasters to cast their spells remotely), harassers or suicide attackers. <br>Cryxian heavy warjacks, called "Helljacks", tend to be fast, hard to hit, relatively fragile, powerful in melee and subpar in ranged combat. Slayer derivatives are similar in design to most other warjacks and offer both simple glass cannons and more support-oriented models, like the harpoon-throwing Reaper, while the Leviathan and its cousins are four-legged weapon platforms with amphibious capabilities. They also have a large range of scary character heavy warjacks, like the Deathjack and the Nightmare, which have their own reasons to be scary as fuck either by generating two free focus or reaping the souls of the dead to buy more attacks.

The Deathjack actually has an interesting backstory, Cryx didn't build it, in fact, nobody knows who built it, they just heard about the thing rampaging around and captured it, and so far haven't been able to copy is soul-fueled engine or dark magic items. Aside from lower armor, the main weakness Cryx's jacks have is that while they are accurate in melee, they're usually as inaccurate as Khador when it comes to shooting.

As befitting for a faction of undead, their style favors the skeletal and menacing, with jet-black paint jobs and lots of spikes. Many cryxian jacks are powered by a necromantic engine that runs on souls and at least three carry particularly nasty chemical weapons. Those that aren't powered by dead souls universally run on necrotite, which is what happens when coal mixes up with Blight and necromantic energies. It burns way hotter and lasts longer than normal coal, and produces toxic green smoke when burned, but given most Cryxian living soldiers don't care much about poison after surviving in Toruk-tainted environment for generations, only their enemies have to worry about it.

Cryx's colossal, the Kraken, the least conventional looking of the giant machines before Cyriss' came out, in that has a pair of giant metal tentacles with claws at the end, as well as guns, and a bigger gun on its head. Like other expensive Cryx models, it does something when it kills the living in melee, in its case, it stuffs the corpses of its victims into its furnace that add tokens that can boost its strength, or it can turn them into focus. It has mixed thoughts from Cryx, on one hand, it's one their few good sources of ranged damaged aside from using using warcasters' spells, on the other hand, putting that many points into a single unit tends to going against Cryx's usual thinking that involves having lots of cheap units.
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File:Deathjack.jpg|The Deathjack. If only the model looked this cool.
File:Corruptor.png|A Corruptor. It has lots of painful ways to kill you.
File:Erebus.jpg|The Erebus. Why is it always Winter Guard who die in horrifying ways?
File:NightmareHelljack.jpg|The Nightmare is one of the most [[grimdark]] things in Warmachine.
File:Ripjaw.png|A Ripjaw, awesome and terrifying.
File:Kraken.png|RELEASE THE KRAKEN
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