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- Cryx Solo
Little is known about the
nightmarish apparitions
called machine wraiths,
Models listed by Faction though they are certainly
Models listed by Expansion some warped deviant of
List of Spells mechanikal artifice. Some
List of Special Abilities speculate they are the
bitter ghosts of arcane
mechaniks or fallen priests
of Cyriss; others maintain
they are fallen warcasters.
Whatever their origin,
Cryx their howling, metallic
Cygnar
call strikes a chill into the
Khador
marrow of even the
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 Protectorate of Menoth marrow of even the
Retribution of Scyrah staunchest warrior.
Convergence of Cyriss
Mercenaries
Four Star Syndicate Basic Info
Highborn Covenant
Puppet Masters
Statistics
Searforge Commission
Talion Charter Note: Due to IP rights, BattleCollege has to be deliberately vague with stats

SPD Fast
MAT Average
DEF Decent
ARM Low
Points cost Tiny

Circle Orboros
Legion of Everblight Weapons and Attacks
Skorne Mechano-Claws - Low P+S melee weapon.
Trollbloods
Minions
Blindwater Congregation Special Abilities
Thornfall Alliance Incorporeal - This model can move through terrain and models without penalty. This
model is immune to all damage except magical weapons, spells, animi, and feats. This
model does not count as an intervening model. This model loses Incorporeal for one
round when it makes a ranged or melee attack.
Undead - This model is not a living model and never flees.
Machine Meld (★Action) - Target enemy non-character, non-colossal, warjack with
Newbie Page a working cortex within 1". You take control of it, indefinitely, and the Machine
Faction Overview Wraith is taken off the table. Then 80% of the back of the card is taken up with rules
General Strategies about how your opponent can or cannot exorcise the Machine Wraith (basically
Scenario Play they can either spend focus attempting an exorcism, or damage their own jack and
Tournament Analysis
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 Tournament Analysis try and shake it out).
Army List Builders
Army List Archive
Theme Forces
Glossary of Abbreviations Thoughts on the Machine Wraith

Machine Wraith in a nutshell

There's two schools of thought on the Machine Wraith. The first, is that you take him for
Machine Meld and it is an extremely situational ability. In fact, considering how likely you're
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to see Colossals and/or character jacks and/or warbeasts than anything else, his situational
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use is almost zero.
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If and when you possess an enemy jack, don't expect to stay there long as it becomes a
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huge target. However, the best thing about Machine Meld is that your opponent can't
Other allocate any focus to the jack next turn.
Battle College MK II Project
Rules Clarifications The second school of thought is that he is a dirt cheap Incorporeal model that can block
Mk I Archive charge lanes, engage enemy models (especially ranged enemies) to foul them up,
Terrain Archive contest/control scenarios, or just plain old take a magic bullet in the face so someone else
doesn't have to. You can even use the model to threaten weak support solos with Mechano-
Claws!

If you like to annoy the hell out of your enemy and don't mind spending a point to do so,
the Machine Wraith could be worth taking.

Thoughts on using Machine Wraith(s) in a Puppet Master force

Despite being a Cryx model, the Machine Wraith is specifically allowed in the Puppet
Master mercenary contract. If it is included, it counts as a mercenary model (not a Cryx
model). You can view the complete Puppet Master force here.

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Combos & Synergies
Taking 2 Machine Wraiths can be more than twice as disruptive to the enemy as
one. Especially if you're following the second school of thought.
Drawbacks & Downsides
He doesn't block LOS.
People don't tend to field the sorts of warjacks that he can possess.
Tricks & Tactics
If the enemy exorcises you via damaging the jack, you don't actually exit the jack
until your own maintenance phase. At which point it is your turn again, and you can
jump straight back in.
If the enemy exorcises you via spending focus, then try and exit the jack in such a
location that you can't get shot by magic weapons/spells and/or where you're
engaging multiple models.
Other
Sculptor: Christian Danckworth
Theme Forces this is a member of
Asphyxious1 - Scavengers of the Line
Asphyxious3 - Orchestrations of Annihilation
Coven1 - Machine Minds
Deneghra2 - Shadow Play
Goreshade1 - Seekers in Darkness
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Scaverous1 - Funeral Rites
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Cryx Index
Warcasters Asphyxious1 - - Asphyxious2 - -
Asphyxious3 - - Deneghra 1 - - Deneghra
2 - - Deneghra3 - - Goreshade1 - -
Goreshade2 - - Goreshade3
Mortenebra - - Scaverous - - Skarre1 - -
Skarre2 - - Sturgis2 - - Terminus - -
Venethrax - - The Witch Coven
Warcaster attachment: Skarlock Thrall
Warjacks - Deathripper - - Defiler - - Helldiver - -
Light Nightwretch - - Ripjaw - - Scavenger - -
(Bonejacks) Shrike - - Stalker
Cankerworm
Warjacks – Corruptor - - Desecrator - - Harrower - -
Heavy Inflictor - - Leviathan - - Reaper - - Seether
(Helljacks) - - Slayer
Barathrum - - Deathjack - - Erebus - -
Malice - - Nightmare
Warjacks - Kraken - - Sepulcher
Colossals
Units Bane Knights - - Bane Thralls - - Bane
Riders - - Bile Thralls - - Black Ogrun
Boarding Party - - Bloodgorgers - -
Cephalyx Overlords - - Cephalyx Mind
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 Slaver & Drudges - - Mechanithralls - -
Necrosurgeon & Stitch Thralls - -
Revenant Cannon Crew - - Revenant
Crew of the Atramentous - - Satyxis
Blood Witches - - Satyxis Raiders - -
Soulhunters
Blackbanes - - Withershadow Combine
Solos Bloat Thrall - - Iron Lich Overseer - -
Machine Wraith - - Necrotech & Scrap
Thralls - - Pistol Wraith - - Satyxis Raider
Captain - - Soul Trapper - - Warwitch
Siren
Bane Lord Tartarus - - Captain
Rengrave - - Darragh Wrathe - - General
Gerlak Slaughterborn
Journeyman Warcaster: Aiakos, Scourge
of the Meredius
Battle Wraith Engine
Engines

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Cryx Mercenary Index

Mercenary Captain Bart - - Captain Damiano - -
Warcasters Cognifex Cyphon - - Drake MacBain - -
Exulon Thexus - - Fiona the Black - -
Magnus 1 - - Magnus 2
Note: To field a mercenary warcaster

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with Cryx, you need to be playing a
game which allows 2 (or more)
warcasters.
Mercenary Different types of Mercenary warjacks
Warjacks can only be taken by specific Mercenary
models ... which means there's too many
permutations to list here (in any sort of
meaningful way).
However, note that the following Cryx
mercenary models can control
warjacks/warbeasts (in addition to the
Mercenary Warcasters listed above):
Raluk Moorclaw - - Wrong Eye &
Snapjaw
Mercenary Press Gangers - - Sea Dog Deck Gun Crew
Units - - Sea Dog Boarding Crew (UA) (WA) - -
Steelhead Halberdiers - - Steelhead Heavy
Cavalry - - Steelhead Riflemen
Croe’s Cutthroats - - Nyss Hunters - -
Boomhowlers - - The Devil's Shadow
Mutineers
Mercenary Ogrun Bokur - - Swamp Gobber River
Solos Raiders
Bloody Bradigan - - Bosun Grospar - -
Doc Killingsworth - - Hawk - - Gorman
Di Wulfe - - Gudrun the Wanderer - -
Lord Rockbottom - - Madelyn Corbeau -
- Dougal MacNaile - - Orin Midwinter - -
Ragman - - Raluk Moorclaw - - Saxon
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 Orrik - - Stannis Brocker - - Rorsh &
Brine - - Sergeant Nicholas - - Wrong
Eye & Snapjaw
Mercenary None yet (as of July 2015)
Battle
Engines

See Also: Cryx Theme Forces

Rules Clarifications
Machine Meld
Effects that are on the warjack will stay in place. For instance upkeep spells on the
warjack (both friendly and enemy) will stay until that caster's next maintenance
phase, at which point they can be upkept/expire normally.
You can't activate the warjack on the same round you possess it.
The possessed jack is not part of your battlegroup, so you can not allocate focus to
it, can not channel spells through its arc node, etc.
When you're exorcised, you're still Incorporeal.
You can't use a special action after charging.

Incorporeal edit

Please refer to the Incorporeal page itself for its clarifications - it has such a long list
that we didn't want to repeat it here.

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