Flayed Ones

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This article has been updated for Soulstorm. The Dark Crusade version is now archived.

Dawn of War Squad

Flayed Ones
Race	Necrons
Version	Soulstorm v1.2
Build Info
Hotkey F	Build Cost 120  3 Build Time 36 s Built From Dormant Monolith, Restored Monolith Squad Size 4/8 Requires Summoning Core Limit None
Unit Stats
Hitpoints	550/2
Armour	Infantry Heavy Medium
Morale	Immune/-/-
Unit Mass	25
Move Speed	10
Sight Radius	20 (cannot detect)
Reinforcement
Reinforce Cost	30
Reinforce Time	30 s
Weapons
Ranged	None
Melee	Flayed One Claw

Contents 1 Flayed Ones 2 Tactics 3 Abilities 3.1 Reassemble 3.2 Fear 3.3 Necron Summoning 4 Weapons 4.1 Flayed One Claw 5 Dormant Monolith Add-ons 5.1 Awakened Monolith 5.2 Engaged Monolith 6 The Dawn of War Player's Guide

Flayed Ones

Dedicated close combat machines, the Flayed Ones are Necrons who pride themselves on striking fear in their foe by wearing the skinned hides of their victims. They are also able to deep strike and crawl from beneath the earth, adding to their already terrifying nature.

Tactics

Flayed One spamming is a cheap and effective tactic used by many Necron players. Flayed Ones are deployed via Deep Strike in the player's base, near the Necron Monolith. They are reinforced to their full squad size, then loaded back into the Monolith. Once a critical mass has been achieved, a spotter unit such as Builder Scarabs are used to locate the enemy base and then the entire force is deployed in the enemy base. From this point forward, the Necron player builds nothing but Flayed Ones, immediately deep striking them into the field and directing them to destroy enemy buildings rather than try to slowly chase around the enemy infantry. The Flayed Ones are durable enough to weather the incoming fire for quite some time, often long enough to destroy the enemy base despite the attempts by the defenders.

In the Soulstorm expansion, this tactic has been toned down quite a bit as the Flayed Ones do not do as much damage to vehicles/buildings as they once did. A stronger use of the Flayed Ones in the current version of Dawn of War is to force enemy infantry squads to flee from them while allowing warriors to do early game Listening Post disruption or focus fire. A typical scenario involves using Necron Warriors to act as a spotter. Once the enemy infantry is engaged with the Warriors, deep strike a squad or two (preferably two) of Flayed Ones behind the enemy infantry squads to force the opponent to either continue firing upon the Warriors and get tied up in CC, or the more intelligent decision which is to flee. The Flayed Ones stay on their targets and chase them until a potentially fatal threat is spotted, after which they teleport back to the Monolith to be redeployed as circumstance requires. This allows the warriors to fire upon any early game structures such as listening posts or offensively built barracks buildings. This tactic is not foolproof, but is effective against most opponents that do not expect it.

Abilities

Reassemble

	Reassemble
	Requires	Nothing
	Target Types	Own squad
	Range	20
	Area of effect	0	Cooldown time	Passive ability
Effects	Necrons have the uncanny ability to reassemble themselves even after taking severe damage. If a Flayed One is killed and still within range of the surviving squad there is a 25% chance that it will stand back up with 30% of its original hitpoints.

Fear

	Fear
	Requires	Nothing
	Target Types	All enemy units
	Range	0
	Area of effect	10	Cooldown time	Passive ability
Effects	The Flayed Ones terrifying visage has a severe impact on the enemy's morale. Enemy units within the area of effect take 1.5 morale damage every second per Flayed One.

Necron Summoning

	Necron Summoning			Hotkey: J
	Requires	Summoning Core
	Target Types	Friendly non-turret building
	Range	1000
	Area of effect	Entire squad	Cooldown time	75 s
Effects	The Flayed Ones teleport to the targeted friendly building. At full charge the Flayed Ones can make one teleportation.

Weapons

Flayed One Claw

	Flayed One Claw
Damage Per Second Values Infantry Vehicles Buildings Daemons Morale Base Damage Low Med High H.Med H.Hi Cmdr Low Med High Air Low Med High Med High DPS Base Min Max Min.D Initial DPS: 47.0 47.0 47.0 47.0 31.3 23.5 23.5 19.6 7.8 0.3 6.3 2.4 1.6 31.3 7.8 10.0 30 105 130 0.5
Cost	Default Weapon	Range	Melee	Setup Time	0 s
Build Time	Default Weapon	Accuracy	100%	Refire Rate	1.5 s
Area of Effect	0	Requires	Nothing

Dormant Monolith Add-ons

Awakened Monolith

	Awakened Monolith				Hotkey: M
	Cost	340	Build Time	70 s
	Requires	Summoning Core
Effects	Moves the Necrons into Tier 2 with the following effects:</b> Allows for the production of Immortals The Greater Summoning Core can be built New upgrades are available from the Forbidden Archive and Summoning Core Strengthen Powergrid can be researched Cost of the Necron Lord increased by +50  (stacks with additional Awakened Monolith and Engaged Monolith add-ons to a maximum of 475  ). Hitpoints of the Necron Lord increased by 450 (stacks with additional Awakened Monolith and Engaged Monolith add-ons to a maximum of 4500). Hitpoints of the Flayed Ones increased by 150 (stacks with additional Awakened Monolith and Engaged Monolith add-ons to a maximum of 1450).

Engaged Monolith

	Engaged Monolith				Hotkey: M
	Cost	400	Build Time	70 s
	Requires	Awakened Monolith, Greater Summoning Core
Effects	Moves the Necrons into Tier 3 with the following effects:</b> Allows for the production of Pariahs and Heavy Destroyers The Energy Core can be built New upgrades are available from the Forbidden Archive Plasma Battery Storage can be researched. Cost of the Necron Lord increased by a further +50  (stacks with additional Awakened Monolith and Engaged Monolith add-ons to a maximum of 475  ). Hitpoints of the Necron Lord increased by 450 (stacks with additional Awakened Monolith and Engaged Monolith add-ons to a maximum of 4500). Hitpoints of the Flayed Ones increased by 150 (stacks with additional Awakened Monolith and Engaged Monolith add-ons to a maximum of 1450).

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