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I like Flayed Ones because of this reason:

You can infiltrate and Deep Strike them, so you can box your enemy in with four squads of 10 Flayed Ones, you then assault tying your opponent up, whilst you're doing this your Destroyers can Turboboost up then shoot any escaping units. All this whilst your Warriors are capturing objectives!!!!

Points better spent on Scarabs. Scarabs are lovely for tying up assault units (or squads in general), whilst every other Necron unit utilizes their strength: ranged gunz.

Rico.

Yea, scarabs are the pain in the ass unit from the necrons. When I play against them with my Orks, I cut them apart, BUT for some reason they give SM all kinds of grief. Im guessing the lack of attacks lol. So anything that isnt CC awesome (so basically everything) scarabs are the way to hold units for 3+ turns

Does the FOC allow 4 elite choices?

@jgemrich
No, the necron FOC is the same as all others.

@OP
I used to field flayed ones only in friendly games, it doesn't get it's points back in higher caliber gaming and too much has to go right for it to work. So keep trying them and see what you can do with them, but keep in mind that glayed ones ARE better than scarabs.

@jgemrich, No but are you really going to have 4 squads of ten Flayed Ones in a normal 40k game?

Are you really trying to tell me this has been a successful tactic in an apoc or planetstrike game?

or maybe you are trying to tell me that you are able to successfully deep strike all 4 units on target more often then 1 outta 72.

maybe you really haven't found a better use of 720 pts then to box in 1 infantry unit.

maybe the title really deserved some clarification.

Or maybe the THEORY really deserved some play testing before a post in the tactics section.

phantommaster wrote:I like Flayed Ones because of this reason:

You can infiltrate and Deep Strike them, so you can box your enemy in with four squads of 10 Flayed Ones, you then assault tying your opponent up, whilst you're doing this your Destroyers can Turboboost up then shoot any escaping units. All this whilst your Warriors are capturing objectives!!!!

sounds like a pretty square plan.
I havn't seen too many players using Flayed Ones very well

Considering that FOs are Assault Marines with no ranged attack, no jump packs, and no ATSKNF, I wouldn't bother. Necrons should be spamming Immortals, Warriors, and Monoliths to avoid Phase Out.

Flayed Ones are situationally useful. I've used them periodically as a gimmic but they've never been super effecive. Maybe if rumors turn true and they end up Troops and therefor Scoreing in the next Codex.

Well, considering this has always worked for me then, I'm not sure what to say.

I always enjoy carving up Devastator squads with 'em. Either that or slicing and dicing rhinos with them (as I think they have disruption fields akin to how the the warriors gauss weapons work).

Deep strike them behind enemy lines, which will force them to either turn around and attack the FOs or high tail it away and towards your warrior/destroyers/immortals, who should be waiting with guns drawn.

Ecurb The Mighty wrote:I always enjoy carving up Devastator squads with 'em.

I engaged a Devastator squad with them once.

I lost.