Paintball Magazine Paintball Media Magazine April 2019 | Page 124

REVIEW
The Empire Syx Updates and Improves the Axe
Platform for 2019 and Beyond
At the 2018 NXL World Cup, the Empire
and G.I. Sportz booth was teasing a
new paintball marker, the Syx. The latest
generation of the proven, affordable,
tourmament-winning Axe platform, the
new model took an already successful
system and built upon its success. Now
the weather is warming up, the 2019
tournament season is in full swing and
the Syx is getting out to the public for
players to shoot paint with, so it’s time to
find out whether the Syx is just another
number, or the next generation of a
proven platform able to meet the rigors
of the modern sport!
Light, simple and affordable yet delivering
consistent, accurate performance with
plenty of standard features and even
some top-level tournament trophies
in the case, the Axe Pro, Axe and Mini
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markers that have come before the
Syx already checked a lot of boxes and
provide a great deal of bang for the
buck. That’s a good thing, because
that meant a reinvention of the wheel
certainly wasn’t necessary to move
the platform forward. To that end, the
Empire people improved the platform’s
look and feel, taking what was a basic
and angular marker and smoothed the
edges, rounded the cuts in the metal
body and made the marker a sleek, curvy
and moden-looking piece. Like those that
came before it, the Syx has no external air
lines or hoses, with the regulator in the
grip and batteries, buttons and a screen
up front on the foregrip, which in this
case has been curved and molded with
several comfortable finger grooves for a
comfortable, natural shooting position.