Armoured skeletons chaos warrior anything similar

[Corso]

This may have been asked for before but any chance the fantasy range will expand to include evil humans in armour at some point?

[Leon]

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[Big Insect]

This may have been asked for before but any chance the fantasy range will expand to include evil humans in armour at some point?

One of the questions regarding armoured skeletons is "what armour?".

Greek armour (all a bit Jason & the Argonouts style), Roman armour, 'medieval' armour (lots of nice medieval manuscript references) or 'fantasy' armour 

[FierceKitty]

Or T-34s.

[Big Insect]

Zombie Tanks 

You heard it here 1st (although I expect somebody has thought of it previously!!!)

[Elliesdad]

Does armour "count" for the Undead anyway?
I believe that reanimated corpses would most likely be (still) wearing whatever they were wearing at the time of their death - assuming their initially newly dead bodies weren't stripped of anything valuable or useful. Armour may make it more difficult for an opponent to destroy the Undead, but being encased in armour presumably wouldn't convey any feeling of invulnerability to the wearer (as they are already Dead).
I rationalise that any bunch of Undead will probably be those who died at a similar time and accept that a bunch of medieval knights who died in battle a hundred years ago could be reanimated to form a body of Undead armoured knights. That said, yeah I suspect that a bunch of armoured skeletons/Undead would be useful - after all, it's just "pretend" anyway.
Cheers,
Geoff

[fred.]

In most Fantasy game systems there is the concept of fairly heavily armoured skeletons as an elite option. Either they were better warriors (with better armour) when they died, or the Necromancer has kitted them out better / imbued them with more magic, etc 

I'd suggest the type of armour ties in with the rest of the Warband ranges - so late medieval. 

Zombies in T-34s - not sure you need special models to enable this feels an easy kit bash. 

[mollinary]

Does armour "count" for the Undead anyway?
I believe that reanimated corpses would most likely be (still) wearing whatever they were wearing at the time of their death - assuming their initially newly dead bodies weren't stripped of anything valuable or useful. Armour may make it more difficult for an opponent to destroy the Undead, but being encased in armour presumably wouldn't convey any feeling of invulnerability to the wearer (as they are already Dead).
I rationalise that any bunch of Undead will probably be those who died at a similar time and accept that a bunch of medieval knights who died in battle a hundred years ago could be reanimated to form a body of Undead armoured knights. That said, yeah I suspect that a bunch of armoured skeletons/Undead would be useful - after all, it's just "pretend" anyway.
Cheers,
Geoff

How does the phrase  "I rationalise that any bunch of undead" find its way into a sentence. Oxymoronic?  Or something like that! 

[Orcs]

It takes up to a decade for a body to become a Skeleton, so surely the straps holding the armour to the skeleton would also have rotted, so the armour would not stay on the skeleton.

[Last Hussar]

it's just "pretend" anyway.

You take that back, you beast.

[Ithoriel]

It takes up to a decade for a body to become a Skeleton, so surely the straps holding the armour to the skeleton would also have rotted, so the armour would not stay on the skeleton.

But the ghosts of the armour would remain

[paulr]

I can accept they are reanimated undead, but the leather armour straps would have rotted

Yep, sounds like a wargamer

[Orcs]

I can accept they are reanimated undead, but the leather armour straps would have rotted

Yep, sounds like a wargamer