Nagash kept the Skaven out by putting a sign up that said: "Skaven welcome" because he figures the one time the Skaven won't show up is when he invites them.
not only that: they're so Byzantine and counterintuitive that an invitation to somewhere pretty much means they will never show up there because it means that "you know that they know that you know..." and so on
I always compared the Bonereapers to a strange mixture of the Roman Legions and the Mafia: they’re conquering the realms and extorting the people for “protection.”
>They're like the Tomb Kings except not Egyptian. "Intriguing, tell me mo-" >They're also the IRS "I DONT CARE *_WHO_* THE IRS SENDS, I'M *_NOT_* PAYING TAXES!"
4:45 to be fair, a skaven would feel rumbles of construction and think either A: the engineers are working on something new, or B: they murdered the maintenance rat and the platforms about to give.
Also, while we're talking about Skaven, they don't necessarily build cities under other cities, like they did in the Old World. They have one HUGE city situated in its own pocket dimension, that's somewhere between the Realms at large and the Realms of Chaos. They just gnaw holes into reality to get where they need to go from there. At best, the Skaven might burrow a tunnel to a mortal city, only to dig right into an Ossiarch vault. If the Bonereapers chilling there didn't think the Skaven were a problem, they'd probably just let them go without even moving. And in that situation, the Skaven would think "creepy-spooky tomb" and keep digging. If the Ossiarchs _did_ see the Skaven as a threat, the Skaven back home would find that part of the tunnel network collapsed and never hear from the tunnelers again. Simple as. (Frankly, "the tunnelers disappeared forever after a tunnel collapsed" sort of explains itself, and is likely a constant occurrence for Skaven that doesn't necessitate thinking about for longer than 5 seconds).
@@pancreasnowork9939 also remember that when you're building a city deep below an enemies city, would you expect someone else to build a city below your city?
To add to the lore chain, with the recent Ghur & Freeguild tomes it’s noted the Realms are crisscrossed with countless tunnel systems running everywhere due to the realmscapes shifting or innumerable giant creatures burrowing(which is why the Skaven don’t have a monopoly down there) It’s to a point that a growing number of Dawnbringer Crusades are just going underground to move farther faster or even set up entire free cities in tunnels. A recent one was a city under Hammerhal Aqshy that used to the heat from the magma vents to mass produce glass works they shipped to the top cities. A main commodity being glass bottles the cities store Aqua Ghyranis in to pay the crusaders.
You single handedly advertise AoS better than GW does. This is like the 5th faction where I am like: Yo this is sick, maybe I should pick these up once I have some time and money to spend.
Fun OBR facts: -The Higher ups of the OBR enjoy tabletop games especially their chess version Kingsgame (the chess piece are made of children finger bones ). The warriors cast enjoy setting up & participate in Jousting tourney and sporting tournament in their mortal vassal kingdom to scout out future OBR bones and souls -Arkhan leads the Null Myriad a small legion who bones are made up of a complex blend of nullstone (Anti-magic) & necromancy making them the perfect black-op legion to deal with demon incursions and other magic base enemies -The Pretirfiex Elites are a legion that made out of fossilized bones giving them nigh-invincibility and would construct colossal constructs station them across the land camouflage as mere ancient statues until the need to reactive and catch their enemies in an ambush -Crematorians are a legion of flaming OBR cursed by Nagash to blow up once their Balefire goes off making them suicide bombers which Creamatorian are scared shitless attempting always to figure out how to remove said curse. Due to this they "attempt" (doesn't work out always) to the least destructive OBR legion when conquering entire cities to plunder libraries and vault to find a cure. -Like all AOS factions the OBR take various influences from their Roman empire inspired thite system, Japanese samurai armor and philosophy code & their Assyrian brutality such as the display of decapitated heads or flayed skins of rebellious vassals and enemies leaders. The Lumineth needing to burn their dead something that is sacrilegious to the elves is also a Assyrian reference to their atrocities od cremate their enemies bodies which was sacrilegious in mesopotamian culture -The Mortek guard infantry like to refer to one another as Brother/Sister-in bones. I think that a funny
I love all these except the fossil guys a fossil is when bones are replaced with minerals their ain't no bones Left in em. Maybe their somewhere during the process or some such
@@goreobsessed2308 Perhaps in AoS those minerals are inhabited by the same death energy that was in the bones they replaced and that's why Mortisans can use them for constructs.
Everything about this faction is awesome. Their name, their “culture”, backstory, design, everything. I think they’re the most creative take on an undead faction since The Scourge
In heroes of might and magic 4 the undead campaign has the player character creating a kingdom with many living within this empire. The idea is similar to the ossiarch with the living providing corpses and bone and generally run the economy while the undead build, serve and fight and make up the back"bone" of the empire. Well it's still a necromancer's empire but gauldoth is intent on keeping a balance between dead and living since previous fully undead empire tend to disappear on account of being cartoonishly evil. This is by far my favorite twist on the undead trope. It's just so interesting to imagine the possibilities and cultural practices that would develop from such a place Homm4's story telling was its number 1 appeal, gauldoth is just such a s tier character
Bones are a cool horror vibe. Skeletons do not get enough credit for being pretty scary given their habit of falling apart and making Xylophone noises. But look at these guys, they are fucking scary. Really leaning into the "monsters animated by profane magic' vibe more so than pretty much any zombie.
@musicman24X and if ever there was a empire that would construct horrific bone monsters out of their own dead given the chance..... it would be the Roman's.
@@thatprofessorguy8316their whole thing was that they eventually didn't have enough soldiers to maintain the massive empire they eventually made, so they'd love having a bunch of skeletons hold down the border
I love how AOS has a faction that will hold human villages hostage, waiting for them to produce more children so there is a bigger stockpile of bones to collect yet AOS isn't gRim DaRK EnUgh
i wouldnt say its not grim dark *enough*, but compared to its scifi counterpart 40k, its a fairy tale. but that is because 40k is absurd in its grim darkness. to me aos is just enough tolkien inspired fantasy and grim dark to be great for compelling stories.
I mean yeah, a single faction on a village scale doesnt really compare with the industrial prison complex mixed with the spanish inquisition turning skulls into computers on a galaxy wide scale being just a small part of one of the most simpathetic factions
This just makes me think of that "I Think You Should Leave episode" where the guy makes a country song about skeletons and says "The bones are their money, and so are their worms."
Show respect to 2+Tough, he may not have Pancreas’ charisma skill set but he’s been carrying the Mortal Realms torch since the get-go so has endurance points to spare. ✌️
Pancreas doesnt do AOS coverage justice. 2+tough is the real main man covering the lore and hes a simple "Ironjaws lore" search away which means you either lack the briancels to use the search function or you prefer to remain ignorant of AOS lore and just HAPPEN to get the lore from an all around warhammer channel such as this which tackles AOS rarely
@@ce4879 2+tough has a way of telling that I dont really like, he interrups alot of the telling to explain stuff nonstop, he need to practice how to tell a story, to much inmersion breaking.
No. Every RUclipsr who makes money from advertising Total War will be ironic at best, and at worst will spread fake infos about Warhammer Age of Sigmar. This is business, nothing personal.
You forgot something about them that’s absolutely crucial: Ossiarch Commands. Healing in the movement phase, +3” of movement, -1 Wound when charged, chaining a second activation after a Hero, +1 to their Ward saves for an entire phase, and the attached UP TO 6 FREE COMMAND POINTS. They’re incredibly good.
Okay, I HAD a comment to make. Echoing Heywoah's fantastic analysis, "You are not here for clever battle tricks or schemes. You are here to march slowly forward and cordially invite your enemy to care about objectives or go extinct." But I saw @24:55 and I've been laughing so hard I had to go back and doublecheck that quote.
Fun fact its not just the living terrorised by the bone reapers. The bone tithe can be "requested" upon deathrattle kingdoms (civilisations ruled by wights and skeletons) and if youre nothing but bones youre low key boned
I like to imagine tons of Skaven all knew about the army of Undead napping beneath their feet, but no one told anyone else because they were all hoarding that information in case it became useful later on.
I love the different flavours of it, You got the endless ghost tide. The elite skellitaxing. The classic vampires and undead. And last and thus best, Bretonia but fun.
Well I never thought I would actually finding a faction so cool that I would genuinely consider getting into the tabletop. But here we are, the Bone Reapers are so cool I am considering learning AoS gameplay and pricing some starter kits
I would check out the Christmas battle force which is still available online. It's insane value with buying one and a vanguard gets you to 2000 points for 300$ which in Warhammer terms is very cheap
The Christmas Battleforce box is genuinely phenomenal. You get your reliable core (Mortek Guard), 2 fast hammers (Morghasts), two support pieces that can dish out the pain (Gothizzar Harvester/Liege-Kavalos), and an objective thief with a good battle tactic (Kavalos Deathriders).
The Morghasts do date back to Warhammer Fantasy. They used to be the angels of the great god Ptra, who sicced them on Nagash after the guy tried his whole "murder the planet" plan. Unfortunately Nagash was tougher than expected and after a battle that lasted 40 days and 40 nights Bone Daddy stood triumphant. But he didn't want to waste such good warriors so he resurrected them as his boney servants: half as his bodyguards and the other half as murder machines abroad. When the Big N got shanked by a Skaven blade the Morghasts went down, and such was the power of Nagash that no mortal necromancer could bring them back. But when the End Times hit Nagash put them into use again, which is when we saw their debut.
Seems like the Ossiarchs could benefit from setting up some Orc farms. Just grow them there in controlled conditions and when they're done, get some quality bones, rinse and repeat.
Oh yeah. Meanwhile, there's an argument over whether the Kharadron Overlords are AOS Leagues of Votann or if the Leagues were ripped off of the Overlords.
@@discountplaguedoctor88no there's not, the khadron predate the leagues by quite a few years, and there desighn ideas are completely different beyond being short, the leagues barely have any dwarf to them
Looked forward to this. "Nagash's take on Stormcast" is a good idea. Also great how lately Archaon is messing with Katakros's mind. AOS, Broken Realms especially has this take on immortals and Chaos being saying "we have time to mess with eachother, but I can outhink your torment" ala Olyander and Belakor that Warhammer and 40K don't have as much.
I find the idea of becoming an Ossiarch strangely appealing, with the stipulation of being the only or at the very least dominant soul in that soulbone quartet. Maybe we can be friends? Then again, the very idea of losing my 'I must pet the kitty' instinct fills me with existential dread. That said... 'bone Necrons' sound _so damn cool._
You and the many people that are shoved into your body would probably get together very well, Nagash isn't stupid to put together people who would never get along, that would make you a worse warrior. So i'd guess that, internally, it would be pretty chill. Besides, you would even be able to have some fun and befriend the other Ossiarchs in your free time. And they too are multi-personality bone people!
@@davisdf3064 Fair points. As someone who has 3 lifelong friends (14, 20, and 31 years respectively), I am more than capable of staying chill with people long-term that I get along with. It's sounding better and better, tbh. Odd thing to say about the concept of being an undead gestalt, but there it is.
OK, I absolutely love the idea of the bone tithe. It's evocative and sinister and makes sense for a faction of skeleton warriors, but it's also extremely goofy in that special Warhammer way. Nagash crafted the ultimate undead soldiers, but they're still spooky scary skeletons who are here for the bone tax and won't take no for an answer.
@@Rynewulf then dont play "Land marines" I play OBR (AOS tomb kings), even AOS orcs are funner the ironjawz haev better models than the montrocities that are 40k orks
As a Necrons player and DND Necromancy advocate, the Bone Collectors are second only to Skaven in my heart. Also, the Immortis Guard are some of the coolest models I've ever seen, and I NEED to either own them or be them.
I always look forward to your uploads. This honestly was my favorite video of yours aside from the mechanicus one (mechanicus is the faction I play thanks to that one). Just watching this video gave me the urge to start collecting age of sigmar.
I am SO Excited to see this! I just found your channel like, two weeks ago. Since then... I ended up buying Slaves to Darkness (coincidentally a day or two after I saw your video on it) and now I also have OBR! Love your content!
Love the Ossiarchs, my main faction in AoS, and I eagerly awaited your vid. Played a game recently, and had 5 Kavalos Deathriders hold a Great Unclean One at bay for 3 rounds. So good
So originally I was looking at Soulblight. A friend encouraged me to look at Ossiarchs because they are a more punchy army. I am curious and excited to try them out.
I loved this video. I thought it was just gonna be a lore vid but then I actually got a rundown of all the interesting things about the tabletop. Subscribed.
My first necromancer was in Diablo 2 and I absolutely love the image of a lone general walking forth and calling his army to him. If I ever try AoS this is probably what I would play.
Thank you! You fucking legend. I love Aos so sad there's so little lore videos. I feel like people got a bad taste after the release and don't realize how cool the setting actually is.
I have a theory. Hear me out. The reason all the bonereapers returned to shyish on awakening is because Nagash noticed all of the stormcast had frowny face helmets, so he changed all the Ossiarch faces to smiles just to troll him.
As a kid, I loved Diablo II's Necromancer A LOT. I would've been all for the Boner-eepers if they existed before I was exposed to the 40k Eldar with Dawn of War.
Can you make a video on why star wars could survive 40k as a minor faction. You can just use the ROTS and Shatterpoint novels as sources, since both books were extensively edited and coowritten by George Lucas (Shatterpoint's prologue was written and signed by Lucas, and Mathew Stover himself said not a word written in the ROTS novel didn't go thru Lucas first) These novels have turbolazers exchanging fire from hundreds of thousands of kilometers away. Jedi blocking hypersonic bullets, Yoda and Sidious moving fast enough to make mini tornados etc There is multiple sources in Canon and legends that put turbolazers lazers at or even hundreds of times stronger than Tsar Bombs, in legends lone ships can glass entire planets The droid Army numbers in the Quadrillions in star wars canon (Star Wars, Allies and Adversaries) and it was an army made in less than 10 years
@@papapalps2415 Truthfully, it would actually be a major faction. The star wars galaxy made a Quadrillions strong droid army in less than ten years, and this is still canon. That's insane productivity. Also Star Wars ships can glass whole planets, have ranges in the hundreds of thousands of Kilometers. And star wars ships are made way faster than the Imperium, they change out entire galactic fleets every 4 years Their biggest issue is that they don't have anything out of a handful of characters who can match astartes
@@phil3751 In the old canon (and also just going by generalized estimates for droid production based off AOTC) it is/was in the quintillions. Which, hilariously, is probably as many or more battle droids than the total galactic population. As for Astartes, I fail to see why that matters, frankly. Marines can and are brought down regularly by overwhelming firepower even by infantry, and anything anti-armor grade or above will kill them quite convincingly. And even on an individual basis, again at least in the old canon, SW does have its own super soldier wank ala Dark Trooper Phase 3's (fuck, even the new canon Dark Troopers could likely put up by a fight, just by dint of sheer durability and physical strength, although they couldn't win), Yuuzhan Vong Hunter Droids, and of course, the myriad number of Dark Side fodder the Empire had floating around that should be well matched (ala Shadow Guards, Sovereign Protectors, Imperial Acolytes, etc, etc). And at the end of the day, the sad fact of the matter is that the Empire has the industry to sacrifice an accept a 1-to-1 ISD-Astartes conversion rate and still come out ahead.
I love these videos, lets me learn some lore about a faction that I think just looks awesome and also lets me know what I am getting into if I decide to pick up one of these armies in the hobby.
The point of them being a full-on society is really cool. I don't have the time/space/money to get into tabletop, but if I ever do have all three, I'll definitely check them out.
Oh this would absolutely be the army I’d collect, but I’m currently not making money right now. In fact, I need to be focused on not spending any more money till I get a job.
"Everyone dies sooner or later." Unless you are Lord Kroak. Death for him is more of a cosmic cosmetic thing. I think he likes being a spooky space toad.
Dang, you convinced me to make a warcry warband of a faction I was previously very blasé about I know what you said about the 'only used in major operations' but I've already got an idea for 'the disavowed', a spec ops warband of ossiarchs that have in some way, failed in their duty and these small strike force clandestine operations are their only chance to redeem themselves before nagash or Katakros strip them for parts
One other rules, or rather meta, downside is that they are/were like lumineth in that they play/played a different game to every other faction. It seems better now but back in second edition when relentless discipline replaced command points and every other army besides OBR needed characters nearby to issue commands.
In a way they are like the living embodiment of the concept of the tax collector. Utterly emotionless and will stop at nothing claim what they feel is owed. Now whether the payor agrees with payee’s terms is another story lol
Why no from butchers?? Also, heard from an engineer that depending on ground conditions, a person 4-5 times the diameter of a tunnel above it won't feel any vibrations at ground level and certainly won't pose a threat to buildings with slab foundations. Pile foundations are a little different but I would imagine the 4 to 5 times diameter rule is likely to still hold true.
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can you talk about your thoughts on star wars
Restoration and Necromancy are much more similar than you might think, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
Pancreas the true question would be pour cereal or milk first?
would the Ossiarch Bonereapers accept arthropod exoskeletons?
Hey man, there's an audio issue. All the voice comes from the right side, rather than equalish from both.
banned from my local LGS for playing Ossiarchs and screeching ‘I’VE GOT A BONE TO PICK WITH YOU!’ every time I charge
Such is the power of Nagash
Bone puns, a forbidden art.
Sending your opponents down some pathways into darkness
@@Chewbertoall roads lead to Marathon
God who took their funny bone? No reason to let small stuff like that under ur skin
This entire faction is just a Death and Taxes pun and that's why I love it.
Such is the power of nagash
PfP checks out
@@thefanciesttortoise557you stole my line
@tomasmichaels642 as a wise man, once said, "You snooze, you lose," sun tzu - the art of war
@@thefanciesttortoise557 “suck my nuts” - Sun Tzu, the art of war
Nagash kept the Skaven out by putting a sign up that said: "Skaven welcome" because he figures the one time the Skaven won't show up is when he invites them.
Doesn't that require them reading?
@@135forte Nagash is a fantasy Egyptian, the skaven can piece together hieroglyphs.
not only that: they're so Byzantine and counterintuitive that an invitation to somewhere pretty much means they will never show up there because it means that "you know that they know that you know..." and so on
I always compared the Bonereapers to a strange mixture of the Roman Legions and the Mafia: they’re conquering the realms and extorting the people for “protection.”
And when you start reading into the history of Rome's conquest, you realize that "protection" isn't that far off from "Friend of Rome"...
They are what would happen if ancient egypt had a warrior culture of Rome and were undead
> Mafia
*"RATTLE 'EM BOYS!"*
so they are the roman empire
@@lucasoruamsilva710 how often do you think about the Ossiarch Empire?
>They're like the Tomb Kings except not Egyptian.
"Intriguing, tell me mo-"
>They're also the IRS
"I DONT CARE *_WHO_* THE IRS SENDS, I'M *_NOT_* PAYING TAXES!"
Your bones, hand em over
If the IRS sent undead supersoldiers to kick in my front door... I might pay taxes.
Sutch is the power of nagash
@@jjoohhnn6065
All hail Nagash
4:45 to be fair, a skaven would feel rumbles of construction and think either A: the engineers are working on something new, or B: they murdered the maintenance rat and the platforms about to give.
Both of those things happened probably WHILE the Bonereapers were digging under them
Also, while we're talking about Skaven, they don't necessarily build cities under other cities, like they did in the Old World. They have one HUGE city situated in its own pocket dimension, that's somewhere between the Realms at large and the Realms of Chaos. They just gnaw holes into reality to get where they need to go from there. At best, the Skaven might burrow a tunnel to a mortal city, only to dig right into an Ossiarch vault. If the Bonereapers chilling there didn't think the Skaven were a problem, they'd probably just let them go without even moving. And in that situation, the Skaven would think "creepy-spooky tomb" and keep digging.
If the Ossiarchs _did_ see the Skaven as a threat, the Skaven back home would find that part of the tunnel network collapsed and never hear from the tunnelers again. Simple as. (Frankly, "the tunnelers disappeared forever after a tunnel collapsed" sort of explains itself, and is likely a constant occurrence for Skaven that doesn't necessitate thinking about for longer than 5 seconds).
I’m hoping vault underneath the Skaven city awakened right as the Skaven were about to storm into the city above them for maximum comedic timing.
@@pancreasnowork9939 also remember that when you're building a city deep below an enemies city, would you expect someone else to build a city below your city?
To add to the lore chain, with the recent Ghur & Freeguild tomes it’s noted the Realms are crisscrossed with countless tunnel systems running everywhere due to the realmscapes shifting or innumerable giant creatures burrowing(which is why the Skaven don’t have a monopoly down there)
It’s to a point that a growing number of Dawnbringer Crusades are just going underground to move farther faster or even set up entire free cities in tunnels.
A recent one was a city under Hammerhal Aqshy that used to the heat from the magma vents to mass produce glass works they shipped to the top cities. A main commodity being glass bottles the cities store Aqua Ghyranis in to pay the crusaders.
You single handedly advertise AoS better than GW does. This is like the 5th faction where I am like: Yo this is sick, maybe I should pick these up once I have some time and money to spend.
Fun OBR facts:
-The Higher ups of the OBR enjoy tabletop games especially their chess version Kingsgame (the chess piece are made of children finger bones ). The warriors cast enjoy setting up & participate in Jousting tourney and sporting tournament in their mortal vassal kingdom to scout out future OBR bones and souls
-Arkhan leads the Null Myriad a small legion who bones are made up of a complex blend of nullstone (Anti-magic) & necromancy making them the perfect black-op legion to deal with demon incursions and other magic base enemies
-The Pretirfiex Elites are a legion that made out of fossilized bones giving them nigh-invincibility and would construct colossal constructs station them across the land camouflage as mere ancient statues until the need to reactive and catch their enemies in an ambush
-Crematorians are a legion of flaming OBR cursed by Nagash to blow up once their Balefire goes off making them suicide bombers which Creamatorian are scared shitless attempting always to figure out how to remove said curse. Due to this they "attempt" (doesn't work out always) to the least destructive OBR legion when conquering entire cities to plunder libraries and vault to find a cure.
-Like all AOS factions the OBR take various influences from their Roman empire inspired thite system, Japanese samurai armor and philosophy code & their Assyrian brutality such as the display of decapitated heads or flayed skins of rebellious vassals and enemies leaders. The Lumineth needing to burn their dead something that is sacrilegious to the elves is also a Assyrian reference to their atrocities od cremate their enemies bodies which was sacrilegious in mesopotamian culture
-The Mortek guard infantry like to refer to one another as Brother/Sister-in bones. I think that a funny
I love all these except the fossil guys a fossil is when bones are replaced with minerals their ain't no bones Left in em. Maybe their somewhere during the process or some such
@@goreobsessed2308 Perhaps in AoS those minerals are inhabited by the same death energy that was in the bones they replaced and that's why Mortisans can use them for constructs.
@@dantheultimate2497 yeah that could work
They look far more Egyptian in aesthetic than Mesopotamian
Any more information on the huge peteifex elite constructs? Do they have like , troop transports / mobile cities?
Everything about this faction is awesome. Their name, their “culture”, backstory, design, everything. I think they’re the most creative take on an undead faction since The Scourge
Man, a tabletop Scourge army. Blizzard dropped the ball so hard…
@@battle-brotherthiel1563imagine warcraft the tabletop strategy game
What a massive wasted potential
I've actually converted and proxied my bonereapers army to resemble an elite death knight cavalry force
The scourge are rad.
In heroes of might and magic 4 the undead campaign has the player character creating a kingdom with many living within this empire. The idea is similar to the ossiarch with the living providing corpses and bone and generally run the economy while the undead build, serve and fight and make up the back"bone" of the empire. Well it's still a necromancer's empire but gauldoth is intent on keeping a balance between dead and living since previous fully undead empire tend to disappear on account of being cartoonishly evil.
This is by far my favorite twist on the undead trope. It's just so interesting to imagine the possibilities and cultural practices that would develop from such a place
Homm4's story telling was its number 1 appeal, gauldoth is just such a s tier character
Bones are a cool horror vibe. Skeletons do not get enough credit for being pretty scary given their habit of falling apart and making Xylophone noises. But look at these guys, they are fucking scary. Really leaning into the "monsters animated by profane magic' vibe more so than pretty much any zombie.
Bone constructs are severely under-explored in fantasy
now i kinda want a Bonereaper counterpart where it's all about meat and flesh instead of bone
@musicman24X and if ever there was a empire that would construct horrific bone monsters out of their own dead given the chance..... it would be the Roman's.
@@grayrook8637Im not enough of a history nerd to understand that. If Rome has access to the eight winds of magic, why would they adopt necromancy?
@@thatprofessorguy8316their whole thing was that they eventually didn't have enough soldiers to maintain the massive empire they eventually made, so they'd love having a bunch of skeletons hold down the border
I love how AOS has a faction that will hold human villages hostage, waiting for them to produce more children so there is a bigger stockpile of bones to collect yet AOS isn't gRim DaRK EnUgh
I love how AOS lore is shaping up this past few years.
i wouldnt say its not grim dark *enough*, but compared to its scifi counterpart 40k, its a fairy tale. but that is because 40k is absurd in its grim darkness.
to me aos is just enough tolkien inspired fantasy and grim dark to be great for compelling stories.
I rhink its just people go in expecting death metal while AoS delivers power metal.
Such is the power of Nagash
I mean yeah, a single faction on a village scale doesnt really compare with the industrial prison complex mixed with the spanish inquisition turning skulls into computers on a galaxy wide scale being just a small part of one of the most simpathetic factions
This just makes me think of that "I Think You Should Leave episode" where the guy makes a country song about skeletons and says "The bones are their money, and so are their worms."
Such a niche reference but I’m there 😂
The bones are the skeletons' money
In our world, bones equal dollars
That’s why they’re coming out tonight
To get their bones from you
Is it just me or is this the best channel for AOS coverage? I can't see myself getting the lore any other way.
Show respect to 2+Tough, he may not have Pancreas’ charisma skill set but he’s been carrying the Mortal Realms torch since the get-go so has endurance points to spare. ✌️
Pancreas doesnt do AOS coverage justice. 2+tough is the real main man covering the lore and hes a simple "Ironjaws lore" search away which means you either lack the briancels to use the search function or you prefer to remain ignorant of AOS lore and just HAPPEN to get the lore from an all around warhammer channel such as this which tackles AOS rarely
@@ce4879 2+tough has a way of telling that I dont really like, he interrups alot of the telling to explain stuff nonstop, he need to practice how to tell a story, to much inmersion breaking.
Get my 40k Lore from Arch, get my Aos Lore from Pancreas and 2+ Tough.
Balance in all things.
No. Every RUclipsr who makes money from advertising Total War will be ironic at best, and at worst will spread fake infos about Warhammer Age of Sigmar. This is business, nothing personal.
You forgot something about them that’s absolutely crucial: Ossiarch Commands. Healing in the movement phase, +3” of movement, -1 Wound when charged, chaining a second activation after a Hero, +1 to their Ward saves for an entire phase, and the attached UP TO 6 FREE COMMAND POINTS. They’re incredibly good.
Okay, I HAD a comment to make. Echoing Heywoah's fantastic analysis, "You are not here for clever battle tricks or schemes. You are here to march slowly forward and cordially invite your enemy to care about objectives or go extinct."
But I saw @24:55 and I've been laughing so hard I had to go back and doublecheck that quote.
Fun fact its not just the living terrorised by the bone reapers.
The bone tithe can be "requested" upon deathrattle kingdoms (civilisations ruled by wights and skeletons) and if youre nothing but bones youre low key boned
The book "End of Enlightenment " has an awesome look into the Ossiarchs and their society. (Two main characters. One Lumineth; one Bonereaper)
When you say main chatscter is a bone reaper is it like bone reaper army or an individual skeleboy?
@@JaketheEmpoleon Individual
@@spartnmarcen5110 brooo no way that sounds super cool! Thanks for sharing, I’ll have to check it out
I very much enjoyed "End of Enlightenment". That said, the most appealing part for me was the Stonemage and his internal struggle.
Last time I was this early, Nagash was still an only child.
I like to imagine tons of Skaven all knew about the army of Undead napping beneath their feet, but no one told anyone else because they were all hoarding that information in case it became useful later on.
Man, I love the Grand Alliance of Death. It is such a cool theme overall and a great extension from Fantasy.
FUCK YEAH NECROMANCY
I love the different flavours of it,
You got the endless ghost tide. The elite skellitaxing. The classic vampires and undead. And last and thus best, Bretonia but fun.
My favourite faction too!🩻❤️🔥
Well I never thought I would actually finding a faction so cool that I would genuinely consider getting into the tabletop. But here we are, the Bone Reapers are so cool I am considering learning AoS gameplay and pricing some starter kits
I would check out the Christmas battle force which is still available online. It's insane value with buying one and a vanguard gets you to 2000 points for 300$ which in Warhammer terms is very cheap
The Christmas Battleforce box is genuinely phenomenal. You get your reliable core (Mortek Guard), 2 fast hammers (Morghasts), two support pieces that can dish out the pain (Gothizzar Harvester/Liege-Kavalos), and an objective thief with a good battle tactic (Kavalos Deathriders).
Yep its a good deal tbh. A shame it isnt Necropolis stalkers instead of Morghasts@@cthulhubecausewhynot1182
The Morghasts do date back to Warhammer Fantasy. They used to be the angels of the great god Ptra, who sicced them on Nagash after the guy tried his whole "murder the planet" plan. Unfortunately Nagash was tougher than expected and after a battle that lasted 40 days and 40 nights Bone Daddy stood triumphant. But he didn't want to waste such good warriors so he resurrected them as his boney servants: half as his bodyguards and the other half as murder machines abroad. When the Big N got shanked by a Skaven blade the Morghasts went down, and such was the power of Nagash that no mortal necromancer could bring them back. But when the End Times hit Nagash put them into use again, which is when we saw their debut.
Seems like the Ossiarchs could benefit from setting up some Orc farms. Just grow them there in controlled conditions and when they're done, get some quality bones, rinse and repeat.
I love the fact you use Age of Mythology music. Brings back good times
singlehandedly makes my day when pancreas uploads. THANK THE HAMMER
Such is the power of Nagash
If you do a badass name tierlist, this one goes near the top
Good after-credits scene, btw
If the storm cast is AOS space marines then the bone reapers are AOS Necrons.
In terms of aesthetic.
Oh yeah. Meanwhile, there's an argument over whether the Kharadron Overlords are AOS Leagues of Votann or if the Leagues were ripped off of the Overlords.
Such is the power of Nagash
jokes on you, they're both AOS necrons
@@discountplaguedoctor88no there's not, the khadron predate the leagues by quite a few years, and there desighn ideas are completely different beyond being short, the leagues barely have any dwarf to them
They are Necrons, but actually made of bones and they lean more into a Samurai armor aesthetic
Looked forward to this. "Nagash's take on Stormcast" is a good idea. Also great how lately Archaon is messing with Katakros's mind. AOS, Broken Realms especially has this take on immortals and Chaos being saying "we have time to mess with eachother, but I can outhink your torment" ala Olyander and Belakor that Warhammer and 40K don't have as much.
Null Myriad: _sees Tzeentch_ "Buenos dias fuckboy!"
Bone paste and soul stuff artisanlly combined into perfect beings is the next level to necromancy I did not know that I needed
Been going back and forth between OSBR and Sylvaneth for an escalation league. Thanks for the help!
See that’s the secret. Poorhammer taught me if you just paint your loyalist marines as Alpha Legion, then you can play anything.
You have convinced me to join the skeleton war for my local game store’s AOS escalation league
He wasn't on Bathsalts. He just ate that guy's face.
I mean, ya gotta have at least a couple of upside down pyramids.
I really love the Ossiarch Bonereapers. The art design and all.
My right ear enjoyed this.
I never thought nagash would get any worse buy you're telling me he created tax collectors?
I find the idea of becoming an Ossiarch strangely appealing, with the stipulation of being the only or at the very least dominant soul in that soulbone quartet. Maybe we can be friends? Then again, the very idea of losing my 'I must pet the kitty' instinct fills me with existential dread. That said... 'bone Necrons' sound _so damn cool._
You and the many people that are shoved into your body would probably get together very well, Nagash isn't stupid to put together people who would never get along, that would make you a worse warrior.
So i'd guess that, internally, it would be pretty chill.
Besides, you would even be able to have some fun and befriend the other Ossiarchs in your free time. And they too are multi-personality bone people!
@@davisdf3064 Fair points. As someone who has 3 lifelong friends (14, 20, and 31 years respectively), I am more than capable of staying chill with people long-term that I get along with.
It's sounding better and better, tbh. Odd thing to say about the concept of being an undead gestalt, but there it is.
@@DarkVeghetta get off the internet man
@@alphabromega859 Can't do that. I live here.
OK, I absolutely love the idea of the bone tithe. It's evocative and sinister and makes sense for a faction of skeleton warriors, but it's also extremely goofy in that special Warhammer way. Nagash crafted the ultimate undead soldiers, but they're still spooky scary skeletons who are here for the bone tax and won't take no for an answer.
Thanquol needs his own episode
WOOOOO MY (other) FAVORITE AOS FACTION, ITS BONE ZONE TIME BABY!!!!
Such is the power of Nagash
Their aesthetic looks like Tomb kings/Necrons crossed with Tyranids especially with the color scheme.
I love how in AoS, a cav list is not only possible, it's actually really fun to use. (But bring some wizards to resurrect some casualties tho).
Haven't watched the video yet, but these boney boys made great antagonists in the end of enlightenment
"Bones are their money, so are their worms"
So many armies of the dead and still no sight of glorious Settra. He is still just as good as when he was alive, he is a non-perishable character.
Katacros is basically Settra he's HEAVILY inspired by him
@@makeytgreatagain6256yeah but a 'everything is land marines' AOS knockoff isnt as fun
@@Rynewulf then dont play "Land marines" I play OBR (AOS tomb kings), even AOS orcs are funner the ironjawz haev better models than the montrocities that are 40k orks
‘I don’t care who the ossiarch send I’m not paying my bone tithe’
10:53
As a Floridian, bold of you to assume it was just that *one* guy.
As a Necrons player and DND Necromancy advocate, the Bone Collectors are second only to Skaven in my heart. Also, the Immortis Guard are some of the coolest models I've ever seen, and I NEED to either own them or be them.
“It can beat people to death pretty alright.” I laughed for a minute straight 😂
I always look forward to your uploads. This honestly was my favorite video of yours aside from the mechanicus one (mechanicus is the faction I play thanks to that one). Just watching this video gave me the urge to start collecting age of sigmar.
I am SO Excited to see this! I just found your channel like, two weeks ago. Since then... I ended up buying Slaves to Darkness (coincidentally a day or two after I saw your video on it) and now I also have OBR! Love your content!
Love the Ossiarchs, my main faction in AoS, and I eagerly awaited your vid.
Played a game recently, and had 5 Kavalos Deathriders hold a Great Unclean One at bay for 3 rounds.
So good
So originally I was looking at Soulblight. A friend encouraged me to look at Ossiarchs because they are a more punchy army. I am curious and excited to try them out.
I loved this video. I thought it was just gonna be a lore vid but then I actually got a rundown of all the interesting things about the tabletop. Subscribed.
My first necromancer was in Diablo 2 and I absolutely love the image of a lone general walking forth and calling his army to him. If I ever try AoS this is probably what I would play.
this video's giving me the motivation to paint the Ossiarch Battleforce I bought and built a year ago in a bout of insanity.
The faction that just overall enjoyable. Makes sense they serve that jerk. Such is the power of Nagash.
Papa Pancreas, could we have hedonites of slaanesh next?
Katakros' statline going down means he actually has to start fighting himself will never not be cool to me
As a diabetic too hope your sugar levels are well and never have an insulin shortage.
Thank you! You fucking legend. I love Aos so sad there's so little lore videos. I feel like people got a bad taste after the release and don't realize how cool the setting actually is.
When I was choosing my first faction, these guys were one of the last to be eliminated
Yeah, what really draws me in for the Bonereapers is that even on an individual scale they are individuals.
I have a theory.
Hear me out.
The reason all the bonereapers returned to shyish on awakening is because Nagash noticed all of the stormcast had frowny face helmets, so he changed all the Ossiarch faces to smiles just to troll him.
I mean, they are skeletons, they are going to look like they are smiling always
@@davisdf3064 for sure, but the obr smiles are a little more smiley than your typical skellie
Magic Spoon using both Corporate Memphis and Cal-arts is absolutely horrendous.
Bad to the BOOONNNEEE
I never questioned your channel name, but today I learned in your ad that its literally because your PancreasNoWork lmao fuck thats clever
As a kid, I loved Diablo II's Necromancer A LOT. I would've been all for the Boner-eepers if they existed before I was exposed to the 40k Eldar with Dawn of War.
Can you make a video on why star wars could survive 40k as a minor faction. You can just use the ROTS and Shatterpoint novels as sources, since both books were extensively edited and coowritten by George Lucas (Shatterpoint's prologue was written and signed by Lucas, and Mathew Stover himself said not a word written in the ROTS novel didn't go thru Lucas first)
These novels have turbolazers exchanging fire from hundreds of thousands of kilometers away. Jedi blocking hypersonic bullets, Yoda and Sidious moving fast enough to make mini tornados etc
There is multiple sources in Canon and legends that put turbolazers lazers at or even hundreds of times stronger than Tsar Bombs, in legends lone ships can glass entire planets
The droid Army numbers in the Quadrillions in star wars canon (Star Wars, Allies and Adversaries) and it was an army made in less than 10 years
'Minor' faction, lul.
@@papapalps2415 Truthfully, it would actually be a major faction. The star wars galaxy made a Quadrillions strong droid army in less than ten years, and this is still canon. That's insane productivity. Also Star Wars ships can glass whole planets, have ranges in the hundreds of thousands of Kilometers.
And star wars ships are made way faster than the Imperium, they change out entire galactic fleets every 4 years
Their biggest issue is that they don't have anything out of a handful of characters who can match astartes
@@phil3751 In the old canon (and also just going by generalized estimates for droid production based off AOTC) it is/was in the quintillions. Which, hilariously, is probably as many or more battle droids than the total galactic population.
As for Astartes, I fail to see why that matters, frankly. Marines can and are brought down regularly by overwhelming firepower even by infantry, and anything anti-armor grade or above will kill them quite convincingly. And even on an individual basis, again at least in the old canon, SW does have its own super soldier wank ala Dark Trooper Phase 3's (fuck, even the new canon Dark Troopers could likely put up by a fight, just by dint of sheer durability and physical strength, although they couldn't win), Yuuzhan Vong Hunter Droids, and of course, the myriad number of Dark Side fodder the Empire had floating around that should be well matched (ala Shadow Guards, Sovereign Protectors, Imperial Acolytes, etc, etc). And at the end of the day, the sad fact of the matter is that the Empire has the industry to sacrifice an accept a 1-to-1 ISD-Astartes conversion rate and still come out ahead.
Remember when you mentioned that their kinda like custodians. Lookat 15:05 down right corner. You´re welcome
I love these videos, lets me learn some lore about a faction that I think just looks awesome and also lets me know what I am getting into if I decide to pick up one of these armies in the hobby.
Bone Daddies are my favorite army for AoS, absolute blast to paint and look incredible when all grouped together. Truly one of GW's best ranges.
The fact theres a skeleton faction that has its own version of the IRS in any form of media is infinitely amusing to me
Really cool vid, i like seeing these videos explaining aos factions ive never really dived into. Beats the 40 thousandth imperium vid
“I don’t care who Nagash sends, I am not paying taxes.” -Local Wight King after an Ossiarch Legion visits his Deathrattle Kingdom.
I painted a bunch of spearmen from this army as Christmas ornaments last year and they look pretty good on the tree.
The point of them being a full-on society is really cool. I don't have the time/space/money to get into tabletop, but if I ever do have all three, I'll definitely check them out.
You are really rolling these out this year, holy shit
I just imagine that meme of “Bones Malone & the spooky boys” is just a black ops squad of Bone Reapers.
Oh this would absolutely be the army I’d collect, but I’m currently not making money right now. In fact, I need to be focused on not spending any more money till I get a job.
THE POWER OF NAGASH
Such is the power of Nagash
24:54 you killed me with that dbz crossover 🤣, God it took me by surprise
"Everyone dies sooner or later." Unless you are Lord Kroak.
Death for him is more of a cosmic cosmetic thing. I think he likes being a spooky space toad.
Finally, the Ossiarch video… all other Pancreas vids were just filler leading to this. Hail the bone kings
Glory to Chadakros and the Bone IRS
My friend got me Nagash for Christmas so I grabbed a vanguard box or Bonereapers. Haven't built them yet, but it'll be on my list after my Custodes.
Dang, you convinced me to make a warcry warband of a faction I was previously very blasé about
I know what you said about the 'only used in major operations' but I've already got an idea for 'the disavowed', a spec ops warband of ossiarchs that have in some way, failed in their duty and these small strike force clandestine operations are their only chance to redeem themselves before nagash or Katakros strip them for parts
One other rules, or rather meta, downside is that they are/were like lumineth in that they play/played a different game to every other faction. It seems better now but back in second edition when relentless discipline replaced command points and every other army besides OBR needed characters nearby to issue commands.
1:07 bone w-w-hat?
In a way they are like the living embodiment of the concept of the tax collector. Utterly emotionless and will stop at nothing claim what they feel is owed. Now whether the payor agrees with payee’s terms is another story lol
I just bought a Gothizzar Harvester as part of getting back into AOS. Happy to see this as I start it.
If you combined the Bonereapers with the Nighthaunt and a few million metric tons of hamburger, you'd have the ingredients for a single living army.
Khorne must hate these guys for all the skulls they're taking from him
It's sounding like these guys are the mafia of AOS collecting protection money
Begins furiously scribbling on data slate: build 2nd cadia on abbadons doorstep. Good plan everyone !!!
Why no from butchers??
Also, heard from an engineer that depending on ground conditions, a person 4-5 times the diameter of a tunnel above it won't feel any vibrations at ground level and certainly won't pose a threat to buildings with slab foundations. Pile foundations are a little different but I would imagine the 4 to 5 times diameter rule is likely to still hold true.
The white bull that follows Teclis around looks like a sfw Slaanesh Daemon