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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HeavenShallBurn" data-source="post: 3816653" data-attributes="member: 39593">Basics have already been covered so:In vein of specialized undead shinies and tactics for the army.  Think of a giant hamster wheel made out of iron and covered in spikes powered by untiring skeletons.  It simply rolls directly over enemy lines.  Treat it as an object with a speed of say 10-15ft size huge.  The point is to stop it by killing the skeletons inside under partial cover depriving it of motive power.  Or a purple worm zombie that burrows up inside formations (and fortifications) and disgorges smaller undead.  Teams of skeletal champions carrying reliquaries with a desecrate effect cast on them.  Swarms of zombie (or worse vampiric) stirges.  Skeletal Mammoths with catapults built from their own bones in their hollow ribcages.  Even before the army arrives they should see its outriders and effects.  Vampiric insect swarms randomly zipping about at night and hiding from the daylight in tiny crevices.  Even better they can have a contagion effect on them without bothering them as they're undead.  Packs of zombie wardogs roving the countryside butchering livestock and peasants that can't find cover fast enough.  Occasionally peasants would be allowed to survive to see the main body of troops purely so that they cna escape and return to the city spreading tales of how vast and powerful it was.  Fear itself is a weapon easily turned on the living by the unliving.  If you have Heroes of Battle there is a spell that essentially blots out the sun over a wide area and creates a twilight for several hundred feet.  That should be on the battle standards of the undead legions among other things.  The leader of the army is a lich, an incredibly intelligent high level wizard, he should play fear like a Stradivarius.  Use every advantage possible both tactically and psychologically.</blockquote>

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