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 auticus wrote:
Well there's your answer to slaanesh. Its not broken, you're just playing the wrong army!

Is it bad that I collect both Slaanesh and Ossiarchs (though ossiarchs appearing does mean I still don't own any keepers)

Bonereapers are a n a nice spot against Slaanesh, because their main infantry are both tough enough to withstand offense and 1 wound so they don't yield depravity. Combined with the ability to recover slain models they can afford to simply attrition Slaanesh to death, something very few armies can do.

Bonereapers already need an Errata, and it's an obvious one at that. Vokmortain Master of the Bone Tithes cannot take spells from the Ossiarch spell lore, he lacks the appropriate keyword

In fairness I can see how that slipped the net - his warscroll titles are long enough already and the Tome is very specific that it needs to be Mortician not just a wizard or such as it is with many other tomes. Makes one think that originally they had two or three spell lore groups; or perhaps do so in theory on paper for future releases.

Busy weekend of building and painting up Feast of Bones. I was surprised at how small the models are, and I'm actually quite happy that they're not huge hulking Stormcast-sized skeletons when it comes to the basic troops. Even the Necropolis Stalkers are rather small when compared to something like Kurnoth Hunters with the stalkers unable to match their height just barely.

Appropriately sized, nicely detailed and they weren't a pain in the behind to build and plenty of fun to build. Can't wait for the next batch of models to arrive so I can paint them too

https://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-112860-62045_Thadin%20Bonereapers.html

Pleased with the turn out, excited to see what a lot more time, effort and skill would look like on the models.

Really nice work there, loving the bright vibrant scheme on them! The armour plating really works well on them being painted in colour too.


Myself I've made a huge mistake and ordered a huge load of Reapers to bury myself in

Thankfully I've got about a week before I get buried under the mountain when the pre-order stuff ships. Still the nice thing is that being a high point cost army that's fairly cheap (in comparison to many others) to buy means that I think they will be an ideal "inbetween armies" army.

Glad to see I'm not the only one churning through painting these guys. The again I cheated and used the contrast bone which sped things up immensely.

I really like them. I wish the book had a bit more in terms of colors and demarcations of the various subfactions though. There isn't much in there surprisingly.

Still most excited for the Harvester!

My Bonereapers so far are almost entirely Contrast Paints. Blood Angels Red then Fleshtearers red beneath the ridges. Skeleton Horde contrast all over the bones, except where where I'm using Apothecary White with Nuln Oil over it on some armor pieces and the tops of shields. Aethertmatic Blue for spooky parts and blades.

Only non-Contrast I use is white for the armor rivets, green for the very center of the eyes, and various metallics.

Love Contrast, best thing to happen to me in terms of painting.

 Thadin wrote:
Busy weekend of building and painting up Feast of Bones. I was surprised at how small the models are, and I'm actually quite happy that they're not huge hulking Stormcast-sized skeletons when it comes to the basic troops. Even the Necropolis Stalkers are rather small when compared to something like Kurnoth Hunters with the stalkers unable to match their height just barely.

Appropriately sized, nicely detailed and they weren't a pain in the behind to build and plenty of fun to build. Can't wait for the next batch of models to arrive so I can paint them too

https://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-112860-62045_Thadin%20Bonereapers.html

Pleased with the turn out, excited to see what a lot more time, effort and skill would look like on the models.

I too was really pleased to find their scale so reasonable. It's good to see GW remembering that the 'big guys' are only big if there are normals to compare them to.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
I too was really pleased to find their scale so reasonable. It's good to see GW remembering that the 'big guys' are only big if there are normals to compare them to.

Agreed, I was also happy that they went for a normal human sized model, but still with formidable stats.


Orruks getting bigger as they get stronger is a good thing, but that needn't happen for every race. Especially not for one that is supposed to be an unnatural one.


Also, there is a very pleasant size difference between the mortek guard/cavalry vs stalkers/immortis guard vs Morghasts.

The Petrifex Elite lore about building giants out of fossils makes me want even bigger models though!

Of course in my wishful thinking I would love to see a Mortarch that was a Morghast but I doubt that'll happen.

Question- Does the Liege Immortis that hangs out on Katakros' base have any special rules?
All the rest of his crew his special abilities, but the Immortis just seems to add a pile of attacks to combat. Is that all he does?

the opening pages of the Battletome has some pictures of a boneyard and there's a big skeletal bird/dragon on one side. Now that I want! Seriously if you're the Lord of Building cool stuff from bones build a massive dragon! (esp as you can't even ally in zombie dragons - probably because you don't want all those bits messing up the battlefield as they fall apart)

The secret is that bonereapers actually do have allies--they just get hacked up and processed into more bonereapers by the time the battle starts.

Well I've seen the Kavalos Deathriders today and was pleasantly surprised that they're actually horse-sized. For some reason I thought they'd be bulkier but it seems a unit of 15 with Spears is actually viable to engage with multiple ranks.

Is the mounted hero the same size as the kavalos? He seems to be on a larger base, as well as on a larger beast.

The Kavalos Deathriders come on 60 mm oval bases while Arch-Kavalos Zandtos comes on a 80 mm round base

Having now read the book cover to cover, I love them.
I can see a ton of crem or petrefex armies being built over the other options.

Crem will specifically give slaanesh a hard time as it’s going to be endless waves of exploding skellies that just keep coming back.

Elites are going to be a decent stable option against most armies as it takes a stable basic troop and ramps it up even more.
The bonus for their general is even better if you don’t plan on running anyone unique to lead them.

I will be facing a couple of Ogor armies, plus boar heavy Ironjaws, so a lot of impact hits.

I am hoping that Crematorian will help hit back rather than seeing models just vanishing

Orruk and Ogor armies overall are low on MWs. Petrifax elite would serve you better, especially because casualties in the charge phase don't trigger Crematorians' ability anyways. Having a Harvester behind your mortek guard will bring half of them back immediately.

D'oh. Missed the melee part.

Too used to Azyrite Halo.

I should say I speak from a min-max perspective. Were I playing bonermen I would absolutely be running Crematorians for the fun & theme.

Ossiarch Bonereapers Eratta and Designers' Commentary are up on Warhammer Community (the Ogor ones as well...).

Hm, does that nerf the Gothizzar Harvester in any meaningful way? It's not hard to keep models within 3" of it like Mortek Guard and since technically each attack and wound happens by a model by model basis, you could do the 4+ to bring it back and keep placing it within 3" to reuse it for the ability. So you would have to fail a lot of 4+ from the Gothizzar's ability before a unit would be out of range.

It stops double Harvester shenanigans. The wording means you only roll once regardless of how many harvesters in range.

Honestly most of those changes are just clarifications of what we expected. Harvester is cut back to only one per corpse; deathriders can't use their ability multiple times; Vokmortian can take spells and they've cleared up the issue with the main leaders health divisions.



Kinda amusing in the FAQ on the terrain in that GW basically nudges it onto the event organiser to work out what to do

I would have been ok with double harvesters getting 2 chances to bring 1 model back but good changes all around.

 Eldarain wrote:
I would have been ok with double harvesters getting 2 chances to bring 1 model back but good changes all around.

Eh, it's really unfair against armies that don't have any real ranged ability. You can just wrap the Harvesters in the block of Mortek Guard and there's really nothing you can do about it.

Necessary change imo.

100% sensible FAQ imo.

Glad to see any silly Harvester and kavalos deathrider shenanigans being resolved.

The Ossiarch bonereapers seem to be strong enough to deal with many enemies without these 2 crutches.

Yup, that errata was entirely needed. Otherwise the situation was statistically infinite respawns.

I for one am also glad that Vokmortain is now a real bonereaper wizard. Though, the way they fixed him seems a little weird, instead of giving him the Mortisian Keyword needed to get spells, GW instead added an exception to their Spell Lore for him. But hey, at least he works properly now.

I'm not satisfied with GW's answer when it came to the Bone-Tithe Nexus however. Just another house rule I'll have to hammer out with my local play group, since we don't have a club to game at and whoever's hosting at their home sets the table(s) up beforehand.