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 King Pariah wrote:

 adamsouza wrote:
Necrons get a new "infiltrator" unit. Using vats of rapidly grown flesh to cover the endoskeleton bodies of the Necrons, the new unit will be able to deploy closer to the enemy, pretending to members of their own race.

In the Soul Drinkers Novel Hellforged, Flayed Ones pretty much did that (Oldcron Flayed Ones) except they skinned dead or dying soldiers on the battle field and then wore their skin and flesh and clothes. From there they feigned to be injured soldiers so that they were taken up and sent behind lines for medical treatment only to be dead on arrival. They were then tossed into what was effectively a makeshift morgue and once there were enough of them, well... all hell broke loose.

how...couldn't they have noticed it's a huge metal robot inside a dead man's skin.

I heard that the next Terminator movie will really be a 40k movie about a Necrons Invasion.... O.o

MB

 koooaei wrote:

 King Pariah wrote:

 adamsouza wrote:
Necrons get a new "infiltrator" unit. Using vats of rapidly grown flesh to cover the endoskeleton bodies of the Necrons, the new unit will be able to deploy closer to the enemy, pretending to members of their own race.

In the Soul Drinkers Novel Hellforged, Flayed Ones pretty much did that (Oldcron Flayed Ones) except they skinned dead or dying soldiers on the battle field and then wore their skin and flesh and clothes. From there they feigned to be injured soldiers so that they were taken up and sent behind lines for medical treatment only to be dead on arrival. They were then tossed into what was effectively a makeshift morgue and once there were enough of them, well... all hell broke loose.

how...couldn't they have noticed it's a huge metal robot inside a dead man's skin.

*shrugs* I suppose they didn't complete skin them, leaving chunks of flesh in the right places to give them the appropriate look perhaps? And I'm not sure, but i think that back then, the Necrons weren't that much bigger than your average human, well, at least the warriors and flayed ones weren't.

Also, since this was during an ongoing battle at the system's last still populated fortress, the medics and doctors may have just quickly checked for a pulse and not finding one, moved on to the next soldier in hopes of getting as many in back into the fight.

There's also a scene in the beginning of the novel in which a group of astartes land on a planet to discover everyone is dead and hanging from trees, buildings, rafters, etc. Turns out quite a few of the corpses had flayed ones hiding inside of them.


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There was also fluff in the oldcron codex of an officer being momentarily tricked in the midst of battle by a flayed one wearing his subordinate's skin before realizing that it's in fact a necron when he notices the still breathing bloody mess that was his subordinate (and then either blows his own brains out before the same can be done to him or gets flayed). So Ben Counter wasn't pulling something he thought would be creepy out of his ass, there was precedence for it


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Oh, and let us not forget about the Necron Lord posing as an Inquisitor of the Ordo Xenos.

That seems to have been some odd specie of tiny flayed ones.

On the original rumor pattern:
Necrons are gona get new tiny cute flayed ones models to match the fluff. They'd look like dead guardsmen.

Mindshackle scarabs now target the entire enemy unit instead of a randomly allocated model.

To compensate for this, the points cost is increased by 5 points.

 koooaei wrote:
Necrons are gona get new tiny cute flayed ones models to match the fluff. They'd look like dead guardsmen.

Now you have me thinking about converting some plastic guardsmen with necron bits. I've never really liked the Flayed Ones models. Infinltrators would be interesting.