Prime
This model is available in two Prime Armies, Dark Host and Black Fleet. It can also be used in the Unlimited game mode. You can view the other Mk3 models that made it into a Legacy Army at this page.
Note that the rest of this page is about the model's Mark III rules.
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The fiendish inventiveness of Cryxian necrotechs has resulted in many machines perfected to employ the killing arts. The Slayer is a swift, hulking beast of bone and black iron that relishes murdering anything in its path. The Reaper can fire its harpoon to sink deep into flesh or steel before reeling in its victim with frightening speed to within range of its vicious helldriver spike. The Corruptor is the culmination of Cryx’s pioneering work in caustic compounds and necrotic poisons, a helljack armed with venomous weapons designed to consume both body and soul.
Basic Info
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| Warcaster 0 |
| BASE |
Large |
| SPD |
6 |
| STR |
10 |
| MAT |
7 |
| RAT |
5 |
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N/A |
| DEF |
13 |
| ARM |
17 |
| CMD |
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| ESSENCE |
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| FOCUS |
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| FURY |
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| THRS |
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| HP |
28 |
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U |
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N/A |
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11 |
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Understanding
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Warjack - All warjacks share the same set of special rules. Most notably being big and stompy. Click here for a newbie-friendly recap, or click here for the full rules.
Abilities
Weapons
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POW
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- Drag - When this attack hits an enemy model with an equal or smaller base, immediately after the attack is resolved the enemy model can be pushed directly toward this model until it contacts a model, an obstacle, or an obstruction. After the enemy model is moved, this model can make one basic melee attack against the enemy model. After resolving this melee attack, this model can make additional melee attacks during its Combat Action.
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P+S
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- Sustained Attack - During this model's activation, when it makes an attack with this weapon against the last model hit by the weapon this activation, the attack automatically hits.
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- Hard Head - This model can add this weapon's POW to its head-butt and slam power attack damage rolls.
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Theme Forces
Thoughts on the Reaper
The Reaper in a Nutshell
2010 to 2017 sculpt (PVC)
The Reaper is a support Warjack that can help you get the alpha strike on the enemy. By dragging an enemy model towards yourself, it allows other elements of your force to dogpile in and finish it off.
It is also great for the psychological effect from Drag. Your opponent, knowing that you could Drag his key model out of formation, is going to go to extra lengths to protect that key piece from Drag. Knowing that he knows this can let you control the ebb and flow of the battlefield.
Inefficient no longer! Recently, the Reaper has become much more efficient thanks to the latest change to the Drag rule, Reaper no longer needs to boost the damage roll in order to ensure that Drag is triggered. This means that you’ll get 1 extra focus for extra attacks or for boosting attack/damage rolls effectively doubling Reapers solo damage output against a dragged model.
Combos & Synergies
The Reaper likes a buddy to "Tag-team" with. Between blowing all its focus on boosting the ranged attack, and being a little bit pillow-fisted, you're often left with an enemy jack in base contact with the Reaper, looking scratched and annoyed but not busted. There are lots of options here. One is the Scavenger. With Flight it doesn't need to worry about the Reaper's base getting in the way of its charge lane, and with Finisher it can turn that scratch job into a scrap job. Another one is a Slayer due to his damage potential and low point cost.
A Warwitch Siren and/or an Iron Lich Overseer can help, since as mentioned above the Reaper really needs a minimum of 2 focus to do anything reliably.
Skarre2 can help the Reaper's efficiency. With her Seas of Fates, you can avoid boosting the ranged attacks unless you need to, and save all your focus for the melee attacks after the drag has occurred.
Slaughter Fleet Raiders Theme Force gives it Gang Fighter. Really helps its melee game so drag enemy models in range of warrior models and then start jabbing!
Drawbacks & Downsides
- Drag sounds good until you consider all the things that counter it: stealth, Shield Guard, Sacrificial Pawn, stuff that can’t be moved, terrain/other models that block the charge lane, etc.
- Low number of initial melee attacks means it can get swamped by single-wound models.
- It is inefficient against low-ARM enemy, as it splatters them before getting any use out of Sustained Attack.
- The Reaper can be a focus hog:
- If you're shooting, and the Drag is critical to your plan, you'll probably want to boost to hit with the gun to ensure the drag as RAT 5 isn’t reliable.
- If you're in melee with a high-DEF medium-ARM enemy, you probably want to boost the first attack then buy 2 auto-hitting attacks to maximise on the Sustained Attack rule (3 focus total).
- If you're in melee with a low-DEF high-ARM enemy, you probably want to boost damage (to offset the middling P+S), then buy an attack and boost damage again (3 focus total).
- For the same price you can get an Inflictor who has a similar 2" melee weapon but brings +2 ARM and Shield Guard, instead of the Drag gun and Sustained Attack, which are arguably much more useful.
- For 1 point less you can bring a Slayer who has none of the frills this jack has, but doesn't make you pay for something it does not do either and hits harder.
Tricks & Tips
- Place a Bane Warrior near where the enemy model will be dragged to, so that they will be dragged into the Bane's Dark Shroud aura and the Reaper will get a +2 damage bonus on it's melee attacks.
- At a pinch, it can jam enemy lines thanks to its high SPD and long range melee weapon. But being a fragile Slayer chassis, it won't jam for very long. (The Inflictor is a better choice for this tactic.)
- In melee, buying additional attacks is almost always better than boosting damage (due to Sustained Attack combined with a good P+S).
- Material type
- From 2017 onwards this model is produced in HIPS plastic, in a Corruptor/Malice/Reaper multi-kit.
- Between 2010 to 2017 it was produced in PVC plastic, in a Corruptor/Reaper/Slayer multi-kit.
- Prior to that it was produced in metal as a stand-alone model.
Other
Trivia
2003 to 2010 sculpt (Metal)
- The Reaper is in the Mk3 Cryx battle box.
- Released way back in Warmachine: Prime (2003)
- Sculptor: John Winter
Other Cryx models
Rules Clarifications
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Rules Clarification: : Drag , Pull, and/or Catch (Edit)
(Click Expand to read)
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Timing
- With respect to the Attack Sequence:
- Pull is resolved at Step 12.
- Enemy effects (such as Retaliatory Strike or Enliven) are resolved at Step 13.
- Drag and Catch are resolved at Step 14.
Ranged Attack Damage (Drag and Catch only)
- If a model is destroyed by the ranged attack, Drag/Catch does not trigger.
- Corpse tokens, soul tokens, and etc will be generated from the model’s original position.
- Sicne it doesn't trigger, you won't get the free melee attack from Drag/Catch (even if there's something different already in your melee range).
The Movement
- You cannot Drag/Pull/Catch models with a larger base size than you.
- The movement is a Push effect, which is involuntary movement.
- It is not an advance and will not trigger stuff like Countercharge.
- They won't take free strikes because it is involuntary movement.
- They will take damage from any hazards they're pushed through/into (such as Scathers).
- You can drag your target through Incorporeal models, if there's enough space on the other side, because the rules for Incorporeal specifically allow this. (If there's not enough space, the push will stop on the far side of the Incorporeal model.)
- You cannot drag models through Curse-of-Shadows-ed or similar models, because those rules refer to "models can advance through this model" and a push is not an advance.
- You may drag models that you are already in melee with. However most models can't shoot while in melee, so this is pretty much limited to the Prime Axiom and Galleon (see the corner-case scenarios, below).
- If you get to trigger Drag/Pull/Catch on a free strike (mostly just Pull), the moving model will never get out of your melee range. They have to keep advancing out and being pushed back until either they run out of movement, or you fail a free strike. (Infernal Ruling)
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Push - General ( Edit) [Show/Hide]
- Pushed models do not change their facing.
- Pushed models move at half rate through difficult terrain. Also, Pathfinder doesn't apply during pushes.
- Pushed models stop if they contact anything - a model of any size, or any obstacles or obstructions.
- You don't get free strikes against pushed models, because it is "involuntary movement" and therefore does not count as an advance.
- Pushed models suffer the effects of anything they move through (such as acid clouds).
- If you use a Push vs a charging model (via a free strike for example), this will stop the charge movement (refer core rulebook).
- However, if the pushed model is in melee range of its charge target after the push, then it is considered a successful charge. (Infernal Ruling)
- In that scenario, you measure whether the charging model moved 3" or less excluding the push distance. (Infernal Ruling)
- If you push a model to a position where it regains Incorporeal (for instance you push it out of range of an Exorcist) then what happens is (Being Checked by Infernals)
The Free Melee Attack(s) (Drag and Catch only)
- If the target model doesn't end up in melee range (whether because the ranged attack killed it outright, or something blocked the drag movement) then you don't get a free melee attack and don't get the option to buy additional melee attacks.
- If the dragged model can't be targeted by melee attacks, you may not make your free drag attack and don't get the option to buy additional melee attacks. (Infernal Ruling)
- For both of the above two cases, you may still complete your initial ranged attacks and buy additional ranged attacks as per normal (if you have more guns and/or Reload).
- You may make the free melee attack against models that "cannot be pushed" (assuming you're in melee range already). The "After the model is moved" is a timing clause, not a conditional clause.
- To pull this off, you need an ability that allows you to make ranged attack while you're already in melee, so is pretty much limited to just Colossals and/or models attacking objectives.
- After using Drag/Catch, the attacking model may make a single melee attack without spending focus. (So Black Ogrun can make a single melee attack.)
- After doing the free attack, you may buy additional attacks if you have a method of purchasing them. Models with Drag but no focus/fury (such as Black Ogrun) can't buy additional attacks (despite what is implied by the rule on their card) - it's just a standarised wording for Drag.
More corner-case Rules Clarifications
- Models that can make Ranged Attacks while in melee
- This section is pretty much limited to the Prime Axiom and Galleon who, thanks to being Colossals, can continue to shoot after dragging something into melee with themselves. It can also apply to any model shooting at a "can never be in melee" model (eg Scenario objectives).
- When you start your activation, you still need to choose either 'initial ranged attacks' or 'initial melee attacks'. If you choose melee attacks, then you will never get to shoot your Drag weapons.
- If you shoot a Drag weapon you need to resolve the drag move and the free melee attack, but afterwards you're still in "shooting" mode. The best way to think of it is it's "interrupting" your normal ranged attacks and after resolving it, you go back to completing your initials. So it might go:
- Shoot the Drag weapon.
- Drag the enemy closer.
- Resolve the free melee attack.
- Drag resolved. Now you finish shooting the rest of your weapons.
- Once you've completed all your initial ranged attacks (and any free drag melee attacks) then you have the option of buying additional attacks (ranged if you have Reload, melee otherwise.
- However, if you get overexcited and start buying melee attacks after the free drag one then you don't get to finish shooting the rest of your weapons.
- This is because shooting the rest of your guns is completing your "Initial Ranged Attacks" but by buying melee attacks you have jumped ahead to "After Initial Attacks" (refer first sentence of "Additional Attacks" pg 36 of Prime).
- Black Spot + Drag or Catch
- If you trigger Drag/Catch, then any attacks you get from Black Spot can be either ranged or melee, your choice. (Infernal Ruling)
- This combo can lead to an infinite number of attacks, but it depends on your dice.
- Case A (Fail): Make initial ranged attack, destroy the target with the ranged attack.
- Drag does not trigger.
- Black Spot does trigger, and the free BS attack must be a ranged attack because you don't have any rule that gets around the core rule "models cannot make both ranged and melee attacks during the same activation" (unless you have Dual Attack).
- The free BS attack cannot generate any more free BS attacks.
- Case B (Success): Make initial ranged attack, damage the target with the ranged attack.
- Drag triggers, and now you have gotten around the core rule about mixing attack types. (Infernal Ruling)
- Destroy the dragged model with a melee attack, and trigger Black Spot. The free BS attack can be either ranged or melee.
- So you make a ranged attack and try to Drag another one to restart the sequence.
- Theoretically, if you keep managing to damage + Drag targets with the free ranged attacks, and destroy + Black Spot them with the free melee attacks, you never run out of free attacks.
- Dual Attack & Drag ( Edit )
- This is pretty-much limited to just the Prime Axiom under Syntherion, or the Swabber, Galleon or Prime Axiom under Aurora2
- If you charge model A then utilise Dual Attack to make a ranged attack vs the same model, then you would get the free melee attack from Drag. The Drag attack is a charge attack. (Infernal Ruling)
- If you charge model A then utilise Dual Attack to make a ranged attack vs a different model, then you would lose the free melee attack from Drag. Your first melee attack must be versus the charge target, and you cannot save the Drag attack for later. (Infernal Ruling)
- If you didn't charge then ... just go nuts. There's no restrictions that I know of.
- Assault & Drag ( Edit )
- You determine whether a charge was successful or not before making the Assault attack.
- If you make an unsuccessful charge but then use Drag to get your charge target into melee range, then:
- It is still a failed charge and your activation is going to end after the Assault attack is resolved. (Infernal Ruling)
- You will get the free melee attack from Drag as part of resolving the Assault ranged attack. (Infernal Ruling)
- Whether or not your charge was successful, this free melee attack is not a charge attack. (Infernal Ruling)
- You won't be able to purchase additionals (because your activation ended).
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Rules Clarification : Sustained Attack (Edit)
- Translation for newbies : Once you hit your target, your next attack(s) with the same weapon will auto-hit.
- If your target becomes out of range in between attacks (somehow), then Sustained Attack will not let you auto-hit. Refer Step 3 vs Step 4 of the Attack Sequence (Apdx A).
- If you have sustained attack on a weapon that makes simultaneous attacks (e.g. Prime Axiom making a Sweep attack), then all the models you hit are "the last model hit" and whichever one you choose to attack next is the one you get the auto-hit bonus vs. (Infernal Ruling)
- This only applies to the first attack after a simultaneous one - once you make that next attack, it's all reset back to being "just one" last model hit.
- Example : you Sweep and hit models A, B, C. Then you buy an attack vs model C. It is auto-hit because it was (one of) the last model(s) hit. Then you buy another attack, now you can only auto-hit C because it is the last model hit.
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Rules Clarification : Hard Head (Edit)
- You can add the POW even if the weapon system is crippled.
- Hard Head doesn't get applied to collateral damage, because that is a separate type of roll. Refer page 45 of the mini rulebook.
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Rules Clarification : Warjack (Edit)
- The Cortex/Induction core rule means a warjack cannot have more than 3 focus at any time (maybe 4 if they're really special).
- Many abilities give out focus and don't state an upper limit (such as Convection and Empower). Despite not stating an upper limit, they are always "hard-limited" by the core rule.
- A warjack can have more than 3 focus during a turn, though. For instance, a knocked down warjack can Power Up and be Allocated 2 focus, then spend 1 to shake knockdown, then another model could Empower it back up to 3.
- Warjacks cannot spend focus outside of their activation. For instance, they can't boost free strikes or trigger Powerful Attack on Broadsides. (Infernal Ruling)
Inert warjacks
- Abilities that say they cannot be used if the model is stationary (such as Shield Guard) cannot be used while a warjack is inert, either. Refer "Warcaster Destruction", page 59 of the core rulebook.
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Rules Clarification : Construct - None yet. (Edit)
