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**Maddermax**

From Muse on minis

Exulon Thexus
6 4 5 4 14 14 10
1 Pow 5, p+s 9 weapon
8 Focus
15 boxs
+5 warjack points

Pathfinder
Mercenary - This model will work for Cryx
Selective - This model can include only mercenary contract armies that list cephalyx as possible members

Aggressive Reaction - While one or more enemy models are in this models command range, models in this model's battlegroup can run or charge without spending focus
Sac Pawn [Monstrosity]
Spell Driver - When this model casts a spell, it can channel the spell through another model in its battlegroup that is in its control area. Once a spell is cast this way, the model it was channeled through suffers d3+1 damage points

Deceleration
Hex Blast
Influence
Psycho Surgery
Rampager
Telekinesis

Feat: Telekinetic Tide
Push each enemy non-warlock, non-warcaster model currently in Thexus' control area 2" in any direction

Cephalyx Agitator
6 6 6 4 14 13 9
1x pow 5 p+s 11
5 boxes
FA 3
2p
Selective
Pathfinder
Fearless
Anatomical Precision
Magic ability 7
-Influence
-Instigage(star action) while within 5" of this model, friendly drudge and monstrosity models gain + 2 on attack and damage rolls. Instigate last for one turn
-Psychic Assault(star attack) sp 8 pow 12 that ignores los
Sac Pawn[Monstrosity]

Wrecker
5 10 5 4 10 17 -
2x pow 8 p+s 17
7p
Eyeless sight
Reach
beat back
Chain attack: Blood bath
Chain Weapon

Subduer
5 10 5 4 10 17 -
Net Laucher rng 6, rof 1, aoe 3
- Catch: if this weapon directly hits an enemy model with an equal or smaller base, immediatly after the attack is resolved the model directly hit can be pushed any distance to directly toward this model. After the model directly hit is moved, this model can make one normal melee attack against it. After resolving this melee attack, this model can make additional melee attacks during its combat action.
- Quake
pow 6 p+s 16
7p

Warden
5 10 5 4 10 17 -
pow 4 p+s 14
pow 4 p+s 14
pow 4 p+s 14
Grand Slam
Follow up
Shield Guard
Buckler +1
hard Head
2 open fists
6P

Cephalyx Minde Bender and Drudges
Selective
FA2
bender + 5 drudges 4p
bender + 9 drudges 6p

Mind Bender
5 6 6 4 14 13 9
pow 2 p+s 8
5 boxes
Fearless
officer
Pathfinder
Magic Ability 6
-Adrenal Flood(star action) Rng 6 target drudge grund gains +4 mat and str and can immediatly advance 4"
-Concussion pulse(star action) center a 4" aoe on this model or a grunt the spell is channeled through. Other models in the Aoe suffer a pow 12 magical dmg roll
-Psychic Assault
Psychic Projection: This model can channel through grunts in this unit that are in formation. When it does, you can choose up to two more of those grunds and cast the spell once through each, even if the channeler is engaged. Grunts in this unit that channgel a spell this way are then removed from play
sac pawn[drudge grunt]

Drudge grunt
5 8 5 2 11 15 4
pow 4 p+s 12
eyeless sight
fearless
tough

Cephalyx Dominator
6 6 6 4 14 13 9
5 boxes
FA1
1p
Mercenary Attachment-can be added to a small or medium based noncephalyx merc unit
selective
Officer
pathfinder
anatomical Precision
Granted: Fearless
Granted: Tough
Linchpin - When this model is destroyed or removed from play, all other models in this unit lose fearless for one round and immediately flee
ranking officer
sac pawn[models in this unit]

Contract:
Puppet Masters
An army constructed under the Unwilling and Able contract can include mercenary cephalyx models/units. Additionally, the army can include up to one non-cephalyx mercenary unit if that unit includes a cephalyx dominator UA.
Increase the Fa of cephalyx mind slaver and drudges by +1
Increase the Fa of cephalyx Overlord units by +1

Special rules:
Units that include cephalyx dominator UAs gain AD
The army can also include bloat thrall, machine wraths, and pistol wrath solos. These solos are considered to be friendly mercenary models instead of cryx models

Seems pretty powerful to me, Exulon will definitely be a nasty caster to face. 2" push on the feat and 2" telekenisis followed by up to 6 infludences is pretty damn good, you could easily smash an unwary caster with his own warrior. Rampager is nasty in general against hordes, but with FOC8 (so no need to boost) and tough, cheap arc nodes everywhere, I'd hate to run a beast heavy lists against him. He also has Sac Pawn, so his most glaring weakness (crappy defensive stats) won't be a problem for him most of the time.

Then you have the Wrecker, 7pts for double beatback, reach and bloodbath? Nasty. Combine that with Exulons feat/telekenisis to open him up a path/get a good beatback target in position, and suddenly he's baller, able to threat up to 19" away. Decelaration and Psycho Surgery on Exulon also means that he has little to fear from being crippled at range as well.

Overall, I'd love to see how it plays on the table, should be interesting...

**Tanakosyke22**

That is beautiful, I want to see how Exulon does as I was interested of starting Cephalyx with the rest of my mercs later on.

**Platuan4th**

I'll be in my bunk.

And then I'll continue looking for a Lock and Load Ninja Shopper.

**Dais**

My heart sank when I read selective on everything. No fun for fourstar.

I'm also really let down that they have this fun dominator UA to bring in other units and you only get one in the whole army.

I'll have more thoughts once these initial impressions wear off.

**Emperors_Champion**

Looks good! Excited for this!

One small thing, shouldn't the Wreckers Attack be either POW 7 or P+S 18?

**Platuan4th**

Dais wrote:
I'm also really let down that they have this fun dominator UA to bring in other units and you only get one in the whole army.

I have a sneaking suspicion that ET's theme will give a plus to FA on Dominators.

**tremere47**

They still count as Mercs right?

this looks like a great 3rd list option for tournaments, to go with my Searforge and Bad Seeds lists.

**Platuan4th**

tremere47 wrote:
They still count as Mercs right?

Yes. They're Mercs that work for Cryx but have a rule limiting them to a certain Contract.

**Elemental**

This is going to make for an amazing disruption / setup playstyle. Black Dragon or Cetrati brick? No problem, just use the feat to push them out of Shieldwall, and then Influence them into murdering their own allies. Or against a Runes of War brick, TK the Earthborn over the wall, and then Rampager them into running towards your lines and then showing their back to you.

I can't imagine running this contract less than two Wreckers, maybe three. Even unbuffed, they're still easily better than the Nomad at face-punching for just 1pt more. Buff them with the Agitator, and get E.T's free charges, and we're into colossal-crippling territory.

Croe's Cutthroats will finally be worth their points with TK--reliable Backstab + Poison will clean up most living things pretty handily. Or Alexia1 can recycle dead drudges into an annoying wave of fresh undead, and generate more disposable solos to shoot at hard enemy targets.

An interesting interaction I saw mentioned on the PP forums is that the Mindbender's drudge buff doesn't seem to be limited to his own unit. So buff a different unit, and the buffed drudges can still make a charge.

**Maddermax**

The glaring weaknesses of the list are obviously lack of a decent ranged game (pistol wraiths and a single dominated unit at best), combined with very crappy stats on drudges (there's a reason they aren't seen much in Cryx...), and a real problem with the actual Cephalyx being sniped out by various effects (sac pawn and deceleration does not help against a lot of things), leaving near useless units behind.

So, when combined with their obvious strengths (hordes of cheap tough troopers, movement telekenesis shenanigans, and very good melee with cheap meatslabs for "jacks"), it looks like they'll be very matchup dependant. They'll definitely make for an interesting game though!

**Platuan4th**

They aren't used much by Cryx not because of their stats, they're not used by Cryx because Cryx has McThralls to do the same stuff cheaper and better.

Also, Banes.

**derek**

At first I was excited for Cephalyx, because Merc player, then I learned that beyond one unit that there was no overlap with my existing force, and how they're going to require a significant monetary investment just to field a single 50 point list for a single warcaster, and it just led me to being kind of bitter at the people that shoved Cephalyx in Merc players faces whenever we expressed disappointment at not getting a Warcaster in Vengeance. Glad for people that are happy with them, but unless I find an extremely good deal on the secondhand after the initial "new shiny" wears off, I think I will be sticking to current Merc army.