Walking Dead and Zombie

Necropolis creatures

Level 1

Skeleton

Skeleton Warrior

Level 2

Walking Dead

Zombie

Level 3

Wight

Wraith

Level 4

Vampire

Vampire Lord

Level 5

Lich

Power Lich

Level 6

Black Knight

Dread Knight

Level 7

Bone Dragon

Ghost Dragon

Towns

Statistics

Walking Dead

Cost per troop
100

Attack	5
Defense	5
Damage	2–3
Health	15
Speed	3
Movement	Ground
Size	1
Growth	8
AI Value	98

Special abilities:

• Undead

Zombie

Cost per troop
125

Attack	5
Defense	5
Damage	2–3
Health	20
Speed	4
Movement	Ground
Size	1
Growth	8
AI Value	128

Special abilities:

• Undead
• Disease

Portraits

Walking Dead and Zombies are level 2 creatures of Necropolis town. They are recruited from the Graveyard.

"Walking Dead and Zombies are magically animated corpses. Zombies have a 20% chance to cause disease in creatures they attack. Diseased creatures have their attack and defense ratings reduced by two for a period of three rounds." ^{RoE manual}

Others

Walking dead can also be raised with Basic Necromancy if the hero has equipped the Cloak of the Undead King.

Special ability disease

Zombies have disease special ability, which may occur before the target stack has a chance to retaliate. The attack has 20% chance of causing the target to become ill, which causes the target stack to have their attack and defense values reduced by two for a period of three rounds. Disease can only be removed with Cure spell.

Heroes with a specialty

Straker the Death Knight has walking dead as a specialty, which increases the Attack and Defense skills of any Walking Dead or Zombies for each level attained after 2nd level and gives them a speed bonus of 1.

Tactics and info

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Zombies are bad. Tragically bad, mostly because they have the lowest speed in the game, next to the peasant. They're so bad, the AI computers usually won't buy them up or upgrade their graveyard (and you possibly shouldn't either). In the early game, they can usually go toe-to-toe with another second-level melee creature, but that's about the best you can hope for from these extremely weak level 2 creatures. Even when defending a castle, there usually are better deals than them. Save your gold. Necropolis Town is not the cheapest, and you'll want to be able to buy up those Dread Knights and Ghost Dragons when they become available.

Trivia

As a "gift" from the Necromancers, the Forge was able to create its own zombie troops, the level 2 Cyber-deads and Cyber-zombies. The base unit had only a single regular chainsaw instead of a hand, while the upgrade was going to have 2 circular saws instead of both arms.