Death Magic on the Battlefield

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How do Raise Skeletons and Raise Dead compare to each other? I get the rough impression that Raise Dead provides higher HP units and more of them, but you need create some corpses by getting some units killed first.

[MaxWilson]

Skeletons also have better attack/defense than Soulless do. If you've got Darkness or something, Skeletons are much better. You're correct that Raise Dead requires corpses, although I think PD corpses work fine.

-Max

[Endoperez]

Units killed in that battle also provide corpses for the Soulless. They get better equipment (shield, sword, some armor) if the corpses had high resourcecost.

[sansanjuan]

Endoperez said:
They get better equipment (shield, sword, some armor) if the corpses had high resourcecost.

That is so cool the IW guys bothered to code that. Every day there's some new level of detail I learn about.
I can't imagine how involved the feature list QA was for this product.
-SSJ

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Has anyone been able to raise giant soulless on the battlefield?

[Endoperez]

It's nation-dependent. Giant nations get giant soulless, C'tissians get c'tis and slave lizard undead, Caelum gets those useless, winged-but-not-flying corpses, Lanka gets different types of monkeys, etc etc.

Yes, casting Blade Wind to kill bunch of monkey PD lets you raise the Markata as Soulless Giants.

[MaxWilson]

Addendum: giant nations get giant undead, but not all the time. Don't read that and think that Skullface is a killer app for Niefelheim--I think I've seen maybe 20% of the skeletons raised be giants. Of course that might be because I was killing fewer giants than he was killing of my guys...

-Max

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Endoperez said:
It's nation-dependent. Giant nations get giant soulless, C'tissians get c'tis and slave lizard undead, Caelum gets those useless, winged-but-not-flying corpses, Lanka gets different types of monkeys, etc etc.

Yes, casting Blade Wind to kill bunch of monkey PD lets you raise the Markata as Soulless Giants.

Wow.