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You're stereotyping. These aren't typically undead. They're constructs and a society with distinct personalities.

Yeah, part of the Bonereaper lore is aspects of different people get cherry picked and put into bone constructs. I think the biggest example are the Necropolis Stalkers (the general Grevious looking dudes with four faces). They can choose from four aspects – the blade-strike aspect, blade-parry aspect, destroyer aspect or the precision aspect, each of which makes them better at a specific facet of combat.

The Ossiarchs are not your lurching undead of frail skeletons.

They are Nagash's take on Stormcast. Basically an army of constructs.

The bones they are made of are ground up and reformed bones of the living; the souls that drive their bodies again the chopped and modified souls of the once dead, pressed into live and use once again.

Those assassins are not just assassins; their bodies and souls are built for assassination.



Though honestly even the soulblight in AoS are a LOT more organised. These aren't loan vampires stealing corpses in the night from graveyards and trying to hide whilst buiding up an army. They are organised, martial and operating skeletons and the undead on a large scale all the time. Even they can afford elite units now. If not trained, then less damaged undead that prove viable for expert use. Honestly its why I want to see models like the corpse cart revisited. Right now its a lurching relic from a different style of soulblight when they were also just the mad undead risings of wandering necromancers. Corpse Cart honestly would fit Flesheaters better right now as a travelling waggon that carries essential supplies for the army.

The Victualler’s Cart carries the tastiest of morsels ready for the post-quest feasting, along with a keen-eyed master butcher, ever on the lookout for additional game to add to the table. Though normally well protected in the centre of the order of march, it has been known for enemy ambushes to reach them, though they always find that the combination of the butcher’s own prowess with a heavy blade and the encouraging ringing of the dinner bell on the cart is more than sufficient to hold off raiders and rally the guards to defend their supplies.

Really, just replace the zombies pulling it with ghouls and you’re good.