Editing Warmachine/Tactics/Cryx (section)

==Why Play Cryx?==
Because Undead/Zombies/Pirates/liches fucking Undead Techno Empire awesome. Srsly, why aren't you playing Cryx?

Cryx is, obviously, the designated evil faction of the Warmachine world. It's a necromantic nightmare of zombies, robots, zombie robots, pirates, and sexy demon pirate women with Racks that are so Great they count as melee weapons. Seriously. They're ruled by the evil dragon-god-king Toruk, led by a coalition of Iron Liches created from history's greatest monsters, and basically sit off the coast of the mainland being evil as shit and pirating bitches all day until Toruk decides it's time to fuck one of the other kingdoms to death so he can eat one of his dragon-god-children and absorb their essence.

In terms of gameplay, Cryx is by far the trickiest of the Warmachine factions. They rarely win any stand-up fights, as most of their units are hilariously fragile, but their whole strength is in being able to pick and choose their battles. They are by far the most mobile of the Warmachine armies, and they also do by far the highest amount of damage when on the offensive. In large part, Cryx could be said to be the Warmahordes equivalent of the [[Dark Eldar]].

...which is the other thing. Cryx does play a hell of a lot like the Dark Eldar. They're fragile and very hard to learn, but they're also ludicrously fast and do ''disgusting'' amounts of damage. They also <s>have</s> had some of the strongest warcasters available to any faction: Gaspy, Denny, and Skarre have no fear of direct combat and also pack some of the most bogglingly powerful spell lists in the game. If Cryx is played aggressively, they <s>can</s> could hammer through almost any opposition without breaking a sweat.

In case that didn't get the point across, I'll spell it out: Cryx as a faction <s>is</s> was OP as ''balls'' (They were in MK 2 but took the nerf bat <s>a bit</s> insanely hard in MK 3.). Warmachine is all about playing aggressively, and Cryx has more tools to take advantage of an aggressive playstyle than anyone else. This is no longer nearly as pronounced as it was during the game's initial release, as many Cryxian units have been nerfed (Gaspy2 has taken multiple hits from the nerf bat) and other factions are steadily getting new models that provide answers to Cryx's tricks, but Cryx is still the most powerful faction in tournament play. Cryx wins more than twice as many tourneys as any other faction (though this may be in part due to Cryx being the most popular), and has no shortage of ways to crush any style of opposing army.

That said, there are still plenty of ways to play Cryx in a for-fun situation without making your friends want to strangle you. Just be aware that you should probably leave the bigger guns on the shelf if you want your friends to enjoy themselves.