Ossiarch Bonereapers

Grand Alliance Death Ossiarch Bonereapers

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Lore Tactics General Tactics

"The Tithe has come. Will you pay? Or will you serve?"

– Katakros

The latest addition to Nagash’s ever growing hordes, the Ossiarch Bonereapers are the result of an eons old plan by Big Bone Daddy.

Possibly inspired by the Stormcast Eternals, the Bonereapers are not mere skeletons given life by necromancy, but massive constructs of bone and countless warrior souls, marking them all look impressively robust for undead. Since the Legions of the Nagash are the mainstay, the Nighthaunt are the shock troops and the Flesh-Eater Courts are completely insane, these buff boned boys are the elite vanguard of the Grand Alliance. Given their themes of bones, undead constructs and two units being a priest and skull-throwing catapults they're the closest things we've got to Tomb Kings in AoS.

Forces

• Mortek Guard: Rank and file infantry of the Bonereapers. Well armored and shielded, and with the choice of swords or spears and optional greatswords as weapons.
• Necropolis Stalkers: Morghasts with an extra pair of arms in place of wings, three extra faces and their name's ripped from the Necropolis Knights and the Tomb Stalkers. Skeletal constructs the size of Kurnoth Hunters, each one has the soul of four warriors, and switches between which one is dominant, altering their fighting style accordingly.
• Immortis Guard: Four-armed Grave Guard Tomb Guard elite skellingtons armed with a halberd in one set of hands and a shield in the other.
• Kavalos Deathriders: Essentially bony Varanguard who serve Bone Daddy instead of the Everchosen. Each one has the soul of dozens of warriors to draw on their knowledge and is proportionately arrogant.
• Mortek Crawler: Screaming Skull Catapult 2.0 with an obligatory patent-friendly rename. Also it’s powered by a bone-made hamster wheel.
• Gothizzar Harvester: A big monster construct with weapon hands and a four-armed skeleton for a codpiece that harvests bones and uses them to make new constructs on the fly.
• Mortisan Priest: Combining the role of Liche Priests and Necrotects of old, they create and maintain the constructs among the Ossiarch Bonereapers such as the Necropolis Stalkers.
• Liege-Kavalos: Field generals with skeleton mounts placed in charge of leading the Bonereaper armies. They are forged as a cruel mockery of Sigmar’s Lord-Celestant on Dracoth.

Significant Skeletons

• Katakros, Mortarch of the Necropolis: In life he was the greatest strategic genius in all the Mortal Realms, and undeath has done nothing to dull his mastery of military tactics. He's been given a new body of enscrolled bone by Nagash himself which looks like a JoJo stand rather than a skeleton. He goes into battle surrounded by various attendants.
• Arch-Kavalos Zandtos: Both in life and in death, Patru Zandtos is Katakros’ most trusted lieutenant. A professional assassin turned general in life, he’s now a death-purist who wishes to “cleanse” Shyish of anything still living.

Spooky Melodies for your Bony Boys

• Spooky Scary Skeletons! a remix for a revamp
• The Dead March returns for AoS!

See Also

• Nagash, their god who they give their undisputed loyalty to (yes, really!)