Skarre Ravenmane fronts Cryx Dread Armada as Steamforged sets Oct 15 STL launch
Steamforged Games has put a date on Cryx’s next army. In its September 28 Loremachine post, the company says Cryx Dread Armada, a new Prime army for Warmachine, launches October 15 in STL form for players to print, paint, and play. The same post says Skarre Ravenmane, Queen of the Dread Armada, is available on FronTiers in STL form from October 15.
Hot Dust covered the Dread Armada reveal in our Warmachine Autumn Preview. That report had no launch date. This post supplies one.
Who Skarre is
According to Steamforged, Skarre rules the Satyxis, a people blighted by ancient dragon blood. Her bloodline is famous among them, but the Satyxis prove leadership in battle rather than inherit it, and Skarre took hers through strength, cunning, and magic.
Her power runs on sacrifice. Steamforged describes her reading portents in every kill and claiming that Lord Toruk speaks to her through her victims’ entrails. She carries a ritual dagger thousands of years old that drains the energies binding her comrades together, living or dead, willing or captive, and turns them into a curse against her enemies.
Why Terminus backed her
The post ties Skarre’s rise to a conflict between Cryx’s lich lords. It began with the destruction of Lich Lord Daeamortus and the rise of Asphyxious to that rank, and it ended with a clash between Asphyxious and Terminus.
Skarre sided with Terminus when he marched on the Temple Garrodh. Steamforged says the battle was won at great cost. In defeat, Asphyxious banished Terminus from Caen and brought the temple down around Skarre. In the ruins, the post says, her vision awakened. She could trace the strands of destiny linking the living and the dead, and she saw how to restore Terminus.
Once Terminus returned, he accepted Skarre as his vassal and gave her command of the entire Cryxian fleet.
The war front
Steamforged says Skarre commands with all the resources of a lich lord, leading Satyxis, revenants, ogrun, thralls, and helljacks. Her orders are to open a war front more than two thousand miles long across four nations: Khador, Ord, Cygnar, and the Protectorate of Menoth. The post says no coastal city or village in any of them is safe.
What’s confirmed
- Cryx Dread Armada launches October 15 as a new Prime army, in STL form.
- Skarre is available on FronTiers in STL form from October 15.
- Steamforged tells readers to follow the campaign for updates.
Still unclear
- Which models or units are included at launch beyond Skarre.
- Pricing, tiers, or subscription terms.
- Rules, points, or army lists for Skarre or the Dread Armada.
- Any timing for physical, pre-printed models.
Hot Dust will update this story when Steamforged publishes contents, pricing, or rules.
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