Editing Walking Dead and Zombie

{{Necropolis creatures}}{{Creature
 | AI_Value  = 98
 | Name      = Walking Dead
 | Attack    = 5
 | Defense   = 5
 | Speed     = 3
 | Growth    = 8
 | Damage    = 2–3
 | Health    = 15
 | Cost      = 100
 | Special   = • [[Undead]]
 | U_AI_Value= 128
 | U_name    = Zombie
 | U_speed   = '''4'''
 | U_health  = '''20'''
 | U_cost    = 125
 | U_special = • [[Undead]]<br>• '''[[Disease]]'''
 | No_shots  = 
 | No_ushots = 
}} 

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'''Walking Dead and Zombies''' are the level 2 creatures of [[Necropolis]]. They are recruited from the [[Graveyard]], and can also be raised with Basic [[Necromancy]] if the hero has equipped the [[Cloak of the Undead King]].

''"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."{{-}}<sup>[[Restoration of Erathia Manual Page 101|RoE manual]]''</sup>

== Special Ability: Disease ==
Zombie attack has a 20% chance of causing the [[living]] target to become ill, thus having their [[Primary skill|attack and defense]] values reduced by two for a period of three [[round]]s. The effect occurs before the target stack has a chance to [[Retaliation|retaliate]]. Disease can only be removed with [[Cure]] spell. Since it counts as a level 2 effect, it does not affect any creatures immune to level 2 spells, and can be prevented by [[Power of the Dragon Father]] and [[Cape of Silence]]{{-wh}} artifacts, or [[Cursed Ground]] magical terrain. [[Orb of Inhibition]] and [[Anti-Magic Garrison]]s are not hindering this ability, though.

== Heroes with a specialty ==
*{{H|Straker|Death Knight}} has walking dead as a [[Specialty#Creature_specialties|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.

== Official Renders ==
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{{user commentary|
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.
}}{{end of user commentary}}

==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.

{{creature 'see also'|up=* [[Cloak of the Undead King]]}}
* [[Comparison of Level 2 Creatures]]
* [[Churchyard]] {{withhota}}

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