Play Style : If you like to have strong spellcasting that can bring you back from the edge of defeat, or make that assassination run, then Cyrx are the crew for you. I know I have personally pulled off a combo or two that has completely turn a game around. Painting : I loved painting Cyrx because they can be very straight forward black and gold, or even a dark metallic and gold.
However you can also try some cool different ideas like using incorporating green or purple, and bone colors. They can be fast and furious, or a detailed project. Play Style : these religious nuts like to run across the board and beat people down. This was never my favorite type of army, but when it works, it works really well.
Painting : Protectorate are probably one of the harder painting projects because they do have a lot of religious icons and details. The are also a whitish or khaki color normally which can be difficult, but a friend of mine has pulled off a black, gold and green color scheme which you can see here. Play Style : If you prefer ranged combat, and being able to shoot at your opponent before they close into combat than Cygar is your Army of choice.
Painting : Cygar are pretty straight forward to paint, but really require a clean paint job. Playstyle : Khador is a faction that can do a bit of everything, which can be hard to focus as people try to do too much and forget what their overall game plan. During Mark 2 these guys were mostly infantry based, but their heavy support is suppose to be getting upgrades in this latest Mark 3 edition. Painting : Red is not always easy to paint, but if you go with a dull red and make sure you shade it with brown or black it can turn out very nice.
Legion has several character warbeasts, all of which feature heavily in competitive play. Minions are auxiliary troops that most of Horde factions have access to. Pure Minion armies can be fielded using monstrous Gatormen and pig-like Farrow. Farrow, along with bigger pigs, can be fielded in the Thornfall Alliance, led by Lord Carver and the sinister Dr Arkadius.
Both sub-factions play hard and fast, with a strong but limited selection of warbeasts and some of the best Lesser Warlocks around.
As of , all other Hordes main factions Trollbloods, Circle, Skorne, and Legion have access to a theme which allows for heavy access to Minion models.
This makes Minions, especially Farrow, a good stepping top between Hordes factions. The Convergence is a minor warmachine faction. Cyriss is the goddess of science and mathematics, also known as the Maiden of Gears. Inhabiting a celestial realm far from Caen, Cyriss was recently discovered by human scientists.
These scientists formed the Convergence of Cyriss, a cult dedicated to changing the very planet so that eventually Cyriss can be summoned to inhabit Caen itself and bring in an eternal age of perfection. Most followers of the Convergence seek to transcend human flesh and live on as a soul inside a machine body, a clockwork vessel. Their infantry are almost all Living Constructs, clockwork soldiers who house a once-human soul. The Infernal invasion has revealed some substantial backstory about the nature of Cyriss.
Namely, that Cyriss is actually a sentient galaxy on the other side of the universe. A number of human refugees from the Convergence, Cryx, and Cygnar fled through a portal created from the mechanical body of an ascended Nemo. They arrived at this galaxy years before Privateer Press's sci-fi miniatures game, Warcaster Neo-Mechanika, and are the ancestors of the human factions in that game this is also why there's no elves in space.
The Crucible Guard is the military wing of the Order of the Golden Crucible, the largest and most respected alchemy guild in Immoren. The alchemists of this ancient and venerable society used to reside in Llael before Khador invaded. After the loss of their key fortress they had to flee into the Kingdom of Ord, furthering their operation under this - seemingly neutral - state's aegis. They use alchemical drugs to give a normal human arcane powers Much like Cygnar, the Order is pretty adept at ranged warfare.
Being the masters of the arcane sciences, they rely mainly on fire and corrosion-based attacks, while robbing away the enemy's protection against said weapons. They also have various ways to de-buff the enemy via alchemic substances, especially undead and construct targets. When Menoth returned to humanity after battling the Devourer Wurm, a few willful individuals led by the one known as the Heretic defied him. As punishment they were cast into the wilds of Urcaen where they have suffered since.
Urcaen is an ethereal shadow version of Caen, where unclaimed souls go to be eternally tormented by living nightmres. Now they have returned, and with them are the nightmares and tormented souls of Urcaen.
This is the stuff of legend, folk lore and nightmare. This is the Grymkin. Grymkin have very minimal ranged options, relying on their warlock and other magic users for substantial ranged threat. Grymkin have a strong affinity for corpses, with their battle engine the Death Knell exclusively dedicated to supplying their frontline beasts with enough bodies. Seemingly contrary to their lore, the Grymkin don't care at all about souls. However this is because the Grymkin know that every wicked evildoer they kill is likely to end up in Urcaen anyway, destined to one day join the ranks of the Wicked Harvest.
The "true" Grymkin warlocks, those who followed the Heretic and are now known as "the Defiers", don't have traditional feats. Instead, they have access to three Arcana cards. One Arcana can be used per turn, and they are almost always triggered on the opponents turn by one of their actions. Two Arcana are drawn from a common pool, while the third is unique to each Defier.
Additionally, the Grymkin player selects Arcana before the game starts but after lists are declared, giving them a tactical edge in many matchups. Infernals are evil beings from a mysterious realm that is beyond both Caen and Urcaen.
Caen is the world in which the game of Warmachine is set, Urcaen is its shadowy counterpart where souls unclaimed by divine forces go to be tormented by living nightmares. The inhabitants of Caen lack deep knowledge of the Infernals, only knowing that they are ruthless predators with a thirst for mortal souls.
They have moved in the shadows of civilisation for millennia, but they have now come in force to claim the debt humanity owes them for receiving the gift of magic. This deal was signed with two-thirds of humanity's souls owed to the Infernals sometime in the future. They have come with less than their maximum strength, but come they have, come for two-thirds of humanity and whatever mortal souls upon which they can lay their alien hands.
With the power to summon their beasts and warriors right into combat from their own Infernal plane, nothing like these creatures has ever been seen on the battlefields of the Iron Kingdoms before.
The Infernals are commanded by Infernal Masters instead of warlocks or warcasters, who in turn use the unique Essence resource. Essence is literally derived from the soul of a human Cultist, one of which must be sacrificed each turn.
Infernal Horrors, halfway between a warbeast and a monstrosity, start fully fueled with Essence but slowly drain away as they exist in the mortal plane. You've just finished reading one of the articles in our Introduction series.
The other articles are;. Once you've finished those, you may want to check out the Basic Training series. Several of their casters have Snipe. Epic Haley not listed has a hideously mean Tier List that is built around all of the Storm-whatever models, and it gives stupidly good bonuses to the Storm Striders. Your Caine armies are basically "Caine shoots things" armies, but hey Nemo armies can either get lots of focus to power lots of warjacks, or Nemo3 Artificer General Nemo does quite a mean Stormcaller army There are probably more, but that ought to give you some good ideas.
Nemo2 Charger x10 Not exactly a great way for a new player to buy into the game Cygnar is famous for being the shootiest, but the Retribution of Scyrah and Legion of Everblight can play fairly shooty as well. However, you really shouldn't expect to deliver the kind of gunline you would get from one of those cheating frigging all-Basilisk lists that the Guardsmen love so much.
Warmachine is fairly melee-y, and shooting is there to weaken the enemy, not to murderlate them outright. You'll particularly feel this when you realise that RNG 12 is considered "long". Listen to Lanchlan, he isn't as crazy as he seems at least in regards to this game In Warmachine, melee is a damn guarantee. It's going to happen and you better have something you can throw into the fray though thankfully it's nothing as stupid as a melee devolving into a clustercrap of shooting invincibility.
Now onto reputations. As a cygnar player, I have to clear some things up. Cygnar is by no means the "strongest" shooting faction.
No, that honor goes to menoth who have the most powerful highest rate of fire AOE death rockets and cannons in the game thanks to robust warjacks and their amazing support pieces.
Cygnar is by no means the most traditional "gunline" faction. Again, that goes to menoth or to a lesser extent khador or skorne, who all get big slow but powerful and fairly long ranged guns.
Be advised that "gunline" in warmachine basically translates into "slow moving sledge hammer of death. Cygnar is by no means the "easiest" shooting faction, since it doesn't get the some might say bullcrap array of rule ignoring rules. No, that "honor" goes to legion's eyeless sight ignore stealth and terrain and their Striders ignore terrain and cover or Ret's mage hunters who ignore literally everything; even line of sight!
So what the hell does Cygnar have? Well, Cygnar is the most accurate, the coolest, and the most handsome. Our casters give out deadeye extra die on to-hit rolls like its candy, we have rugged rangers who make things easier to hit just by standing near them. The Arcane Tempest Gunmages are a very cool unit that can not only hit things with magic pistols while wearing really swanky hats , but can even move the enemy around to open up firing lanes for the rest of your army.
We even got this smooth daddy that looks like a cross between an electric power plant and a D. J who doesn't even have to roll to hit things! Cygnar is not about the simple application of bullet to face if it was, our longgunners would be halfway useable but more about opening up firing lanes by altering the position of the enemy forces with magic bullets, smashy hammers, or just some good old fashioned death, before pouring very accurate firepower on the things the enemy doesn't want killed.
There can be more to it than that see Mr. I will murder you with my legion of melee infantry or with my amazing sword-spear and rockin' hairdo eStryker , but that's the gist of it. So yeah, if you want imperial guard style "just blow the crap out of everything," play menoth. If you want "just blow the crap out of certain things who can't do anything about it," play legion or Retribution. If you want something that requires a fair bit more thought and its fair share of frustrations pick up cygnar.
And remember, all the factions I've described are far more complicated than I've made them seem. Just about every warcaster in every faction brings about a completely different playstyle even with the same exact army!
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