Zombies in towers in 40.x use weapons and even some armor. Tower zombies are in fact super perceptive as well. Although there are ways of getting what you want out of the tower.
Noted. But what's odd to me is this is the victim of a deity curse being treated like a vanilla necromancer in that it gets its own tower. I brought in the big gun and decided to raid one of these towers, both to appraise the vampiric ghoul's combat ability and to see just what their master was up to.
After reaching a tower, I quickly discovered the campfire maze method was not going to for a very simple reason;
every single ghoul in the tower was rushing out to attack me.Since I was in control of what's basically a Dwarven T-800, I decided to just get stuck in, figuring I'd make quick work of them. Boy, was I wrong.
Two hours in, I wasn't even halfway through that horde. Hadn't taken any damage, but it was slow work. Damn things wouldn't die until I cut off every means of attack on the body. I grew bored of it, but rather than bug out, I got creative. I created a minecart and proceeded to use it as Armok intended.
As entertaining as that was, it wasn't very effective, accounting for only six kills over the course of an hour. In retrospect, a metal cart probably would have done more damage. But damn if it wasn't fun while it lasted. Still, I wanted to get through this and still have time left in the day, so I had to use my head.
Literally.
After repeating that for about another hour, I was finally, finally done with ghouls, and went in to confront the master. But not before a quick search for anything of value.
She was pleasant enough at first, but when I mentioned going through her undead servants, she pulled a knife, I called her out as a vampire, and things went as you would expect.
To her credit, she put up more of a fight than I expected. If I had been playing as a normal creature she might have won, considering I would have taken more of a beating to get to her.
Final score:
Loot:
Negligible. I got some pretty clothes after picking through the corpses. Dyed cloth and gloves, two things I can't make on my own. But that's it. The necro-vampire didn't have any sort of slab or tome, nor did I expect her to have one since she came to be through a deity curse. So then why did she have a tower all to herself? She was a chieftess, of what I never bothered to ask, so perhaps her position as a group's leader is the cause? Or perhaps it's simply because she had so many ghouls under her command? It's hard to tell.
After resting for a few hours, I take one more look around the site, and to my disgust, I find more ghouls have appeared.
I think I'm done here.
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