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[jaxy15]

I went into a necromancer tower, and there were like a billion zombies.

[ikkonoishi]

I think its a matter of luck. Some towers are sparsely populated, some are standing room only.

[Batmantis]

Im fighting my way through one now.

If you luck out and are in a snow biome, i suggest you fill up on snowballs.

These zombies drop like flies, but can rip you a new one.

ive downed about 30 with snow alone.

Im going to be grandmaster throwing by the time im done here

[Loud Whispers]

Sneak past the zombies, or just kill the zombies and begin corpse throwing rage. Generally cutting them all works well.

[NonconsensualSurgery]

Zombies have shockingly terrible powers of observation. They don't break your stealth even when you fight one, especially if it is alone and out of sight of living necromancers.

If you want to thin the herd a bit you can kill a zombie in stealth and chuck the corpse off the screen so it won't bother you again. Collect carving knives while you're at it to snipe necros.

[Gizogin]

Become a vampire.  Zombies don't attack vampires, making necromancer towers a cakewalk.

[Shinotsa]

If you have a big chopping weapon like an axe or longsword then go for the lower body, you'll slice em right in two. Hit and run works best. Be sure to not aim for arms, hands, or heads as they'll all come after you after you slice em off. Cut, back up, cut, back up. Do it outside and if you go deeper into the tower be sure to move the bodies so you don't wind up getting boxed in. The necros themselves are easy as pie, even the chief ones are about as hard as a bandit leader.

[jaxy15]

Become a vampire.  Zombies don't attack vampires, making necromancer towers a cakewalk.

So, in other words, you want me to find a civilian that looks almost identical to everyone else, only VERY rarely being something weird, and then lick their blood?

[Loud Whispers]

Become a vampire.  Zombies don't attack vampires, making necromancer towers a cakewalk.

So, in other words, you want me to find a civilian that looks almost identical to everyone else, only VERY rarely being something weird, and then lick their blood?

Generally they'll be wearing about 19000 pieces of jewelry made out of sentients and live in a large keep with the title of law giver or something.
If you can't find that, wow.

[sirquote]

Last night I went to the tower, received my necro powers, defeated the inhabiting necromancers and walked home with a few buddies.  Here is how I did it..

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- First, I am a very skilled at throwing,shields and ambush and as far as I could tell these were the only skills that helped me. My ammunition consisted of lots of copper weapons and arrows.
- The ground floor was the easiest, threw stuff at the necromancers until they were all unconcious then I broke stealth and led the heard of zombies away from the tower.
- After circling back stealthed I returned to the ground floor and finished off the necromancers there. I snuck up to the second floor and by luck found a book with a title I was looking for titled "After Death".
- It said I had claimed the power to raise the dead and from that moment forward all the zombies in the tower ignored me as if I was one of them.
- The rest of the tower was a Necro/Necro fight which are pretty easy without their precious minions to help them. The ringleader necro died with a bronze shield through his brain.

There were many books there but I decided to leave them be, for no one dwarf should have too much power. I raised a few firends on my way home and stormed the capital...

Life is good.

Always use caution with stealth though, if you are spotted you WILL get stabbed a million times.

[Garath]

I don't think any other powers are implemented yet, right?

[Dwarven WMD]

Well you could always use the strategy of using the sole force of sheer numbers to get through. Whenever I have a problem, I draft an army of farmers and peasants and march into the place.

All you need in order to do that is some renown, and then some time walking around asking people if they want to die for something lacking any benefit for them other than escaping the monotony of performing agricultural labor for the rest of their mortal lives.
Or if you actually want to survive, you can lead an army of actually trained men into the fort but who the hell wants to miss out on the Fun?

[sirquote]

Or if you actually want to survive, you can lead an army of actually trained men into the fort but who the hell wants to miss out on the Fun?

Having peasants/farmers raised against you is one thing, trained warriors in armor is another.  FUNN!!

[Garath]

usually the force of numbers will work against you. First of all, there will be more zombies than any number of adventurers you bring. Second, dismemberment only adds to the crowd. Third, corpses struck down simply rise again. If you can kill all the necromancers faste enough, fine, otherwise it won't work

[Dwarven WMD]

usually the force of numbers will work against you. First of all, there will be more zombies than any number of adventurers you bring. Second, dismemberment only adds to the crowd. Third, corpses struck down simply rise again. If you can kill all the necromancers faste enough, fine, otherwise it won't work

And that isn't Fun?