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[Ultravanillasmurf]

I was just thinking "I hope no one tells him about the skeleton musicians with horns"

What instrument was the horned skeleton playing?

[TWD]

The penny whistle

[beefcake]

What instrument was the horned skeleton playing?

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-NZ/Deathrattle-Skeleton-Warriors-2017

Although I have a feeling you may have been joking
Should have had him playing his own ribcage as a xylophone.

[Daeothar]

Although I have a feeling you may have been joking
Should have had him playing his own ribcage as a xylophone.

Not quite...

There was one (kind of) in Army of Darkness!

[Ultravanillasmurf]

What instrument was the horned skeleton playing?

Although I have a feeling you may have been joking

Yes, sorry. A bit of an Eats Shoots and Leaves joke.

[AWu]

So it's just a hideous mashup? 

So we have a Samurai bow, with a very strange upper limb, the three bowstrings held in place with metal eyelets and, what are those? Bolts?

Not massively aware of the Eastern style archery. But if that's how they shoot, fair play to them and I concede. Also seems historically odd that in modern times you have folks digging it up when in reality, if it was so successful, it would have been adopted more widely but seems to have been most successful with mounted archers who were going for speed and manoeuvrability over power. Which is fine against unarmoured targets but perhaps a lot less useful against more armoured targets.

In fairness, even the English long bows at Agincourt would have had a hard time penetrating the full plate armour of the French Knights. But power also means range which the Lars Anderson vids proved if anything. Most of his archery was at relatively close range, at which point, it's arguable if you are better off just wacking the enemy with something sharp. Hit and run, yes, which again, suits mounted archers.

It was mostly mounted game to be honest
But bows were in common use in Polish Commonwealth forces long into XVII century, side by side with pistols so they have to be good weapons in horse skirmishing eastern style.

Not saying it is sensible, but it was used on the right (apart from the grip which is western and should be shot with an arrow on the left of the bow.
Using it like that wouldnt hit to precise I think :>

Stupid mashup sums it up nicely

[Cubs]

It is funny that we accept that dark magic is animating these skeletons as undead soldiers, but not that the same dark magic can make them toot their horns!

Reminds me of an anecdote my brother told me about playing the 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' RPG years ago. The premise of the game is that the characters are animals that have mutated into animal-human hybrids to have their various adventures. One player's character was a monkey that was wielding an M60, which he had fitted with a silencer. Cue the immersive debate about how this was not possible and he couldn't have it, although technically the rules did not specify he couldn't. Then someone pointed out they were discussing a talking monkey who wore clothes and used a machine gun and arguing about the mechanical possibility of a silencer on an M60. There was a quiet pause followed by various versions of "Yeah, fair enough" and disbelief was suspended was ever so slightly more so the game could continue.

[pixelgeek]

I wonder if there is a term to describe that point where our suspension of disbelief fails? And does it usually fail at issues that are grounded in reality? Silencers on machine guns or things with no lungs blowing horns?

[TWD]

Although I have a feeling you may have been joking

Yes, sorry. A bit of an Eats Shoots and Leaves joke.

I got it, but was also then left struggling to see how I could have punctuated for more clarity
😁
I'm not sure I understand the Oxford comma but would thus have been an instance?
"skeleton musicians, with horns"
I'm not sure that's any better. Or that this thread is the right place for grammatical discourse.
🤪

[Ultravanillasmurf]

My apologies, I was trying to be amusing.

One of the features of the English language (besides stealing anything that is not nailed down) is its ability to have multiple meanings.

[pixelgeek]

My apologies, I was trying to be amusing.

One of the features of the English language (besides stealing anything that is not nailed down) is its ability to have multiple meanings.

Structural ambiguity is a great source of humour

[Dolmot]

One of the features of the English language (besides stealing anything that is not nailed down) is its ability to have multiple meanings.

It totally stole that from other languages, though.

[beefcake]

My apologies, I was trying to be amusing.

One of the features of the English language (besides stealing anything that is not nailed down) is its ability to have multiple meanings.

I got it, just the written word is hard to judge sometimes if there is humour or seriousness. I actually read the original as a horned skeleton.
Should it be named a horny skeleton? A little hard to tell with the armoured loin cloth in the way I guess (assuming it is a male skeleton that is)

[Belligerentparrot]

Should it be named a horny skeleton?

That would be a boner?

[Jagannath]

Can anyone link me to the newer, dynamic chaos warriors on the UK GW site? I can't find them at all.