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Well after actually doing the math on Praetorians(over on page 19 of Necron Tactica thread), I have come to the personal conclusion that they are the worst unit in the codex. Heresy you say!? After making my own list I don't even have Flayed Ones in my bottom 3! So I figured it might be fun to rate all the units in the Codex.

Below is a list of all the units in order of how I feel they are ranked. If everyone else follows suit, I'll tally up the scores at some point(I left out Hero Characters and Individual Royal Court options to save some time).

23 Wraiths
22 Destroyer Lord
21 Night Scythe
20 Immortals
19 Royal Court
18 Overlord
17 Deathmarks
16 Annihilation Barge
15 Scarabs
14 Monolith
13 Ghost Ark
12 Warriors
11 Triarch Stalker
10 Destroyers
9 Doomsday Ark
8 Doom Scythe
7 Spyders
6 Lychguard
5 C’tan
4 Flayed Ones
3 Catacomb Command Barge
2 Tomb Blades
1 Triarch Praetorians

I might go into my own reasons why I put them in this order later, but I don't want to ruin the simplicity for everyone else to cut and paste the list and just rearrange it to their own tastes.

*note* Higher is Better

I'm curious as to how your rankings worked. You've got the Doomscythe below the Monolith, for example.

 Nerobellum wrote:
I'm curious as to how your rankings worked. You've got the Doomscythe below the Monolith, for example.

Personally I don't think the Doom Scythe is hardly ever worth taking, mainly because Night Scythes are so much better(unless I was gonna cheese out and do a flying circus). The Monolith on the other hand serves a few purposes that nothing else in the codex does. I don't care how many people claim the Monolith is a point sink, it has always performed to my expectations when I have fielded it and that is it's true value. My simplified reasons would be...

1. It is a bullet Magnet. Most people I play against fire everything they've got at it the first turn, and if they are shooting at the Monolith they are not shooting at the rest of my army.

2. When Night Scythes go bad. Ever have a unit in a Night Scythe get shot down before they get to deploy? The Monolith can get those guys back in the fight better than any other unit can.

3. Mobile cover. If you are using Wraiths as a counter assault unit, your enemy can't shoot at them as they move forward if they can't see them.

4. Cool Factor, nuff said.

All in all I rate the Monolith higher for the utility, not it's ability to make it's points back.

I'm surprised Flayed Ones aren't dead last. I'd take a CCB or Tomb Blades five times over before I'd touch Flayed Ones. I also am a big fan of Lychguard with Oberon in the unit for counter assault. Wraiths I like with a Destroyer Lord putting pressure on the midfield.

Flayed ones for sure should be last i dont know anyone who even owns them let alone uses them.

Totally pointless unit.

Darrett wrote:
I'm surprised Flayed Ones aren't dead last. I'd take a CCB or Tomb Blades five times over before I'd touch Flayed Ones. I also am a big fan of Lychguard with Oberon in the unit for counter assault. Wraiths I like with a Destroyer Lord putting pressure on the midfield.

To be honest I don't have any experience with the CCB. All I know is I like Destroyer Lords ALOT. My DL is headed for CC so I don't want my Warlord Overlord(usually Zan) headed into unprotected territory to potentially give up a VP.

As for Tomb Blades, if you are taking them that means you aren't taking something else from the FA section that is way better.

Flayed Ones serve a niche that no other unit in the codex does, they infiltrate. They don't do much when they do,but we don't have anything else that can. They are a harrasment unit that might draw fire or CC units away from more important targets.

Anyway, what would your list look like?