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Why on earth are they playing wind instruments? They have no lungs or lips! Why do they not have drums? You could argue that it is because the armies they are resurrected from most likely played horns, yet Both Empire and Bretonnians (who are most logically the corpses that at least the Vampire Counts have resurrected) play drums! I could understand if maybe they played the Trombone (get it, bone?) for the wit and pun to go with it but no, they just play regular looking horns, some overly curly.

Magic

Its always magic

kenshin620 wrote:Magic

Its always magic

Sigh, that feels like such a cop out answer. I get it but still...

Frink: "Yes, over here, in Episode BF12, you were battling barbarians while riding a winged Appaloosa, yet in the very next scene, my dear, you're clearly atop a winged Arabian! Please do explain it!
Lucy Lawless: Uh, yeah, well, whenever you notice something like that... a wizard did it.
Frink: Yes, alright, yes, in episode AG04-"
Lucy Lawless: Wizard!
—The Simpsons, "Treehouse of Horror X"

Hargus56 wrote:Frink: "Yes, over here, in Episode BF12, you were battling barbarians while riding a winged Appaloosa, yet in the very next scene, my dear, you're clearly atop a winged Arabian! Please do explain it!
Lucy Lawless: Uh, yeah, well, whenever you notice something like that... a wizard did it.
Frink: Yes, alright, yes, in episode AG04-"
Lucy Lawless: Wizard!
—The Simpsons, "Treehouse of Horror X"

lol

Tis not the wind that blows, but the breathe of the dead.

The magic animating them probably also creates the sound of whatever music they marched to long ago.

Yeah it is magic.

For the TK they are going for the trumpet/bible/egyptian theme.

The VC are going for a big viking horn.

I agree it does not make any sence, but then, how do a Tomb King talk, he has no lungs. (Or he has but they are probably in a jarsomewhere.) How do the skeletons or statues comunicate, sign laguage? They are talking. Although I have no idea what knights used in the crusades (bretonias)

The amplified moans of the disturbed and trapped souls are
projected out of the horns.

I've got a metal Skeleton Drummer. I'm not sure from what edition the model is from though. He looks Mongolian and is playing Skull drums.

Zombies have gong players. The gongs are made of faces stretched across round shields.

I guess the current Skeleton and Grave Guard horn players are fueled by the Winds of Undeath.

I found some old skeleton Drummers but they are not the Mongolian skull drummers, I was trying to find at least one of those but with no luck! I also made one using the skaven stormvermin musician drum, (Which is flesh stretched over the drum with the head hanging upside down) and then took the skeleton horn player's arm, wrapped it around the drum and called it good.

Niiai wrote:Yeah it is magic.

For the TK they are going for the trumpet/bible/egyptian theme.

The VC are going for a big viking horn.

I agree it does not make any sence, but then, how do a Tomb King talk, he has no lungs. (Or he has but they are probably in a jarsomewhere.) How do the skeletons or statues comunicate, sign laguage? They are talking. Although I have no idea what knights used in the crusades (bretonias)

Knights IRL used flags as well as horns and drums to communicate. Flags were used during battle because it was noisy and hearing would be restricted by their helmets.

Undead are being controlled by the necromancers animating them, they don't need to communicate. Tomb Kings are a little diffferent, who knows what they do.

Niiai wrote:Yeah it is magic.

For the TK they are going for the trumpet/bible/egyptian theme.

The VC are going for a big viking horn.

I agree it does not make any sence, but then, how do a Tomb King talk, he has no lungs. (Or he has but they are probably in a jarsomewhere.) How do the skeletons or statues comunicate, sign laguage? They are talking. Although I have no idea what knights used in the crusades (bretonias)

How do any Vampires in any fiction talk when they don't breathe?

Even better, if they DO use air to talk, why couldn't Angel give CPR in the end of Season 1 in Buffy?

Plot holes, simply put.

They always seem to come up when Vampires are concerned.


Unable to do CPR, unable to speak(at least normally), no bloodflow=no boners(suck it Edward, o wait... )

Grey Templar wrote:Plot holes, simply put.

They always seem to come up when Vampires are concerned.


Unable to do CPR, unable to speak(at least normally), no bloodflow=no boners(suck it Edward, o wait... )

More like suck it every vampire since the 1970's. Or sooner, don't know when they started showing up in romance novels, only when Anne Rice showed up to ruin things.

I love bringing up the no sex thing for male vampires, cause girls are always like "What about if they had just fed?" and I get to tell them about how the digestive system and your esophagus don't work that way. Either that, or vampire guys have to wear a strap on. Not very sexy now, huh?

How can skeletons even move or stay together, they have no muscles or tendons!

I wonder just how much magic these poor vampires/necromancers have to keep chucking out to their minions