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So I'm new to the game and chose Cryx as my faction. I'm playing the list below and got my knights and thralls decimated by a full winterguard unit with UA and the guy that gives them tough backed by a mortar crew. I'm looking for tips on how to reach the WG before they totally wreck my units. I should mention that it was a 3-way battle and my DJ ended up reaching his caster and killing it but everything else going up on that side of the board pretty much died. Thanks in advance for the help.

50pts:
pDenny -5
Nightwretch 4pts
Nightwretch 4pts
Deathjack 12pts
Bane Knights (Leader and 9) 10pts
Bane Lord Tartarus 4pts
Bile Thralls (Leader and 5) 5pts
Skarlock 2pts
Bane Thralls (Leader and 9) 8pts
Bane Thrall Officer & Standard Bearer 3pts
Gorman Di Wulfe, Rogue Alchemist 2pts

pDenny is your answer. Between her spell list and feat you should be able to decimate the WGDS.

Pistol Wraiths would help too especially if you can get rid of Uncle Joe quickly.

Feat and crippling grasp, followed by a bile thrall to the face? Should clear them all out nicely. Has the added bonus that you should be able to fry a decent sized portion of his army as well that turn (stupid feat).

Against Khador I usually lose ALOT of my army. But most of their casters have to play up a bit closer so they are often suspectable to assasination.

At least that has been my experience. I almost always win with nightmare beating down their caster.

The one time against khador that I was winning in attrition I lost the game on tiebreakers since we ran out of time.

Firstly, get crippling grasp on the winterguard, slows them down, reduces their DEF and stops their sprays.

After that one of the best ways to kill them is AOEs but I prefer bile thralls. But really, with crippling grasp they are out of the battle for the most part.

So I finally played against Khador again and the lists looked like this:

Khador:
Supreme Kommandant Irusk 5pts
Spriggan 10pts
Kodiak 8pts
Doom Reavers (6) 6pts
Man-o-War Shocktroopers (Leader and 2) 6pts
Winter Guard Infantry (Leader and 5) 4pts
Winter Guard Mortar Crew (2) 3pts
Winter Guard Infantry Officer and Standard Bearer 2pts
Winter Guard Infantry Rocketeer 1pts
Winter Guard Infantry Rocketeer 1pts
Winter Guard Infantry Rocketeer 1pts
Kovnik Jozef Grigorovich 2pts
Fenris 5pts
Great Bears of Gallowswood (3) 5pts

Cryx: (Me)
pDenny -5
Nightwretch 4pts
Nightwretch 4pts
Deathjack 12pts
Bane Knights (Leader and 9) 10pts
Bane Lord Tartarus 4pts
Bile Thralls (Leader and 5) 5pts
Skarlock 2pts
Bane Thralls (Leader and 5) 6pts
Bane Thrall Officer & Standard Bearer 3pts
Withershadow Combine 5pts

I lost the game in the end having denny kill all the doomreavers and two of the shocktroopers actually she killed a lot of stuff while it was just her and the combine. It was pointed out after the game that I missed 2 assassination attempts on his caster (one with my knights after using vengeance to advance on the wrong model and later with denny on her feat turn having 11 focus and his caster being 9" away). I learned a lot during the game (due to multiple mistakes like not putting my nearly destroyed deathjack near WG first and THEN purging with my bile thrall and killing 6 of them... missed the tokens) so hopefully my next one will be better and meybe even win. I want to try out nightmare instead of DJ next time but there's no money and that will have to wait. I didn't cast too many CG with denny. Mostly used influence (wich I used to make the bears kill each other) and venoms throughout the game. I still think that is dumb that people can charge something with stealth but it is what it is. Any suggestions on how to improve this list? Thanks for the suggestions that have been made and for the ones made in the near future.

Winterguard deathstars look a lot scarier than they are. As said already, crippling grasp will knock them partially out of the game. I found my Khador opponent pretty much stopped using them when I started putting a pair of bloat thralls in every time we played. Nothing like 5" AoEs to ruin the day of large infantry units.

I never considered the Bloat Thrall... I wonder if I should sub the bile thralls for 2x bloats and a WWS?