when i was necromancer i reanimated a hand that killed 1 pikeman and I've had a reanimated head that bite me in my middle spine and torn apart my middle spine nervous tissue . So the body parts are still deadly.
It doesn't neutralize them. It just makes them easier to deal with.
Yea, but 10 partial zombies and 20 hands is alot deadlier then 10 full zombies.
Right. I disagree.
If it can grab you, and your not stronger then it, then it will stop you, now, one zombie or hand won't do that, but I remember there was one time where i literally had 20 zombies and zombie limbs grabbing me. Needless to say I was immobile.
Wonderful. Now, here's the difference. You can break grabs from heads and hands, they're smaller than Kobolds - By WALKING AWAY. On the other hand if you're facing a 150Γ corpse and it grabs you, there are two outcomes : You're stronger than it (keeping in mind all undead are incredibly muscular) and break the grab, or you get locked and limbs get broken.
The bigger issue here is charging and knockback. Zombies are slow and powerful. Get immobilized, cornered, surrounded or unlucky, and chances are any hits landed will kill you if not maim you.
When zombies attack, you can bet they will charge you. And if they're bigger, they will knock you down. If this happens, suddenly they're faster than you as well. If this was however just a single hand trying to charge you, it would get knocked down and you'd happily remove some extra digits. Oh yeah, a hand without fingers = no grasp. Can't resurrect.
Larger groups of zombies stumble over each other. They have to lie down and this reduces their speed even more, ensuring only a few ever reach you at a time - in single file. Smaller bits of zombie are slower, weaker and smaller.
And even taking that into account, my original advice was to sever the feet first and cripple the corpse. If something keeps bringing the corpse back to life, then take the head off and leave the hands alone.
Secondly, EVERYTHING can kill you in one way or another, so after you kill all those zombies, you will be relieved to know that all that is left is about 50 barely worth your time limbs crawling everywhere. Then you will punch your computer after one of those limbs gets a lucky shot at your head or vital organs.
I'd much rather take my chance with the RNG than give my skull to the RNG on a silver slab.