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Could an army containing the Stormlord an Obyron roll for a unit with blood swarm scarabs, then attach Obyron to a unit of flayed ones and use his Ghostwalk Mantle to be removed from the board and not drift if landing within 6" of the target of blood swarm scarabs?

NecronLord3 wrote:Could an army containing the Stormlord an Obyron roll for a unit with blood swarm scarabs, then attach Obyron to a unit of flayed ones and use his Ghostwalk Mantle to be removed from the board and not drift if landing within 6" of the target of blood swarm scarabs?

Yes. Obyron's mantle causes him (and the unit he joins) to be "removed from the tabletop and placed anywhere together using the rules for Deep Strike". Looks me that you are satisfying the requirements for the Bloodswarm Scarabs which only care if the Flayed Ones are entering play via Deep Strike. Where the Deep Strike is originating from is irrelevant.

-Yad

Sadly, you still cannot assault after DS and either you get assaulted or take full barrage at point blank range if what you DS to has rapid fire :/

Hope 6th Ed will allow Assault after DS, that would make Flayed Ones usable and fun unit to have.

Doesn't Imotekh's rule say "a unit of Flayed Ones" not "a unit with at least one Flayed One". In order for them not to scatter, it would have to say something like the latter and not the former.

A unit consisting of several Flayed Ones and Obyron is not a unit of Flayed Ones.

DarknessEternal wrote:Doesn't Imotekh's rule say "a unit of Flayed Ones" not "a unit with at least one Flayed One". In order for them not to scatter, it would have to say something like the latter and not the former.

A unit consisting of several Flayed Ones and Obyron is not a unit of Flayed Ones.

Hmm, good point. Looking back at the rule it looks like only a model called a Flayed One can benefit from this rule.

-Yad

but better you could add two lords from courts to the unit and let them deepstrike that way with them much better than obyron:

Necron lord, scythe, orb, scarabs
Necron lord, scythe, scarabs
8 to 10 Flayed ones

He really won't like them to appear in his backyard...

Court members can't lead Flayed Ones.


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Believe me I had an awesome conversion in mind if they could.

Independent characters attached to a unit are treated as a member of the unit. In the case of flayed ones, the IC plus flayed ones count as a unit of flayed ones, NOT a unit of flayed ones and attached IC.

This is also why you can Deathwing assault with Belial attached. That is also a deepstrike special rule that works for particular squads, "Deathwing Terminators," so was the quickest example I could find to illustrate my point.