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[Leonon]

I've been looking for a game that lets me reanimate bodies into zombies then reanimate things those zombies kill on a mass scale.

Dominions 3 almost had this but if I sent a necromancer into battle he would resurrect the fallen during battle which would prevent their use after battle and if I didn't send them into battle it would take them 1 month to get to the battlegrounds and by then there's nothing to reanimate.

I tried Diablo 2 but if I remember correctly it had a fairly low body limit. I'm looking to lead an undead army.

Sacrifice kind of does this but does it for every unit type, not just undead.


Basically looking for a game that
1 Makes creating undead require (or at least made easier by) having a dead body.
2 Doesn't have an arbitrary headcount limit (or at least have a really high one) for undead you reanimate.

[janekk]

Only thing that comes to my mind is Heroes 3 and necromancer.

[Mysteriousbluepuppet]

Heroes 3 nevromancer is the go

Play normally, try not to lose vampires. Reach vampire treshold.  You cannot lose ever gain.

[Siquo]

Stubbs the Zombie
Although it might not be what you're looking for, it certainly has the whole "undead army" thing.

[Kagus]

Or you could go the retro route and check out the supremely awesome precursor to Dominions:  Conquest of Elysium II


Don't ask me why they called it CoE:II, seeing as there was never a first one...  Also, just run a Google search and you'll find a download link for the full version from when Illwinter released it for free.  I'm not sure why they're keeping the demo link up on that page.  Illwinter has been a little weird with its homepages for some time...


Necromancers are tricky as hell to get started in CoE, but once you manage to stockpile enough resources to undergo the transformation into a lich, the whole world becomes your plaything.  There's not much detail, but if you're fine with the Dom 3 style of just having a number then you should be fine and dandy with Elysium's "presence" mechanic.

Just don't go overboard in the beginning.  Early mass-resurrection will make you go insane and lose control of your actions.  Liches can't go insane, that's why every necromancer desires to be one, since it results in near-free summoning of gargantuan armies of the dead.

As in, armies so big that when you get into combat, you'll be so far back from the action that you can't even cast spells until the first several lines have fallen.

[Granite26]

http://www.kongregate.com/accounts/TogeProductions

[Puzzlemaker]

This one too.

http://www.wesnoth.org/

It's hard to pull off though.  You might want to search for some mods to help out, there are a lot of them.

[Shadowlord]

You could do this in Master of Magic, actually. I used this strategy to win a game rather quickly. Sent a couple zombies at the first neutral town I found, killed the defenders, and they rose from the dead. Those undead crushed the next town, and my army increased in size again. Soon I found my first other player, and my army of undead steamrolled them, and my army doubled in size.

20 turns or so later, I had conquered all but one of the other players, each of whom had been bigger and stronger than the last, and thus made my force even larger than before. The last one was the only one to be an actual challenge, especially considering she was a necromancer herself. (I won just the same, but considering I had something like 3 times as much territory by then, and send a ton of special summoned units at her in addition to hordes of undead... The only thing keeping her alive for a while was her own summoned units.)

[Hugna]

http://www.kongregate.com/games/BinarySpace/zombie-outbreak-simulator

This is... the farthest thing i can find myself. Too bad you can't control the zombies... yet?

[Granite26]

You could do this in Master of Magic, actually. I used this strategy to win a game rather quickly.

9 unit per square limitation really killed this for me. 

[Vanigo]

You could do this in Master of Magic, actually. I used this strategy to win a game rather quickly. Sent a couple zombies at the first neutral town I found, killed the defenders, and they rose from the dead. Those undead crushed the next town, and my army increased in size again. Soon I found my first other player, and my army of undead steamrolled them, and my army doubled in size.

Uh, last I checked Master of Magic doesn't have neutral towns. Are you sure that's the game you're thinking of?

[Sowelu]

You could do this in Master of Magic, actually. I used this strategy to win a game rather quickly. Sent a couple zombies at the first neutral town I found, killed the defenders, and they rose from the dead. Those undead crushed the next town, and my army increased in size again. Soon I found my first other player, and my army of undead steamrolled them, and my army doubled in size.

Uh, last I checked Master of Magic doesn't have neutral towns. Are you sure that's the game you're thinking of?

Are you freaking kidding?  It sure does.  And they're a great way to add new races to your empire.  I think you're thinking of a different game yourself :/

[Siquo]

You could do this in Master of Magic, actually. I used this strategy to win a game rather quickly. Sent a couple zombies at the first neutral town I found, killed the defenders, and they rose from the dead. Those undead crushed the next town, and my army increased in size again. Soon I found my first other player, and my army of undead steamrolled them, and my army doubled in size.

Uh, last I checked Master of Magic doesn't have neutral towns. Are you sure that's the game you're thinking of?

Are you freaking kidding?  It sure does.  And they're a great way to add new races to your empire.  I think you're thinking of a different game yourself :/

Sowelu is right, but... I thought in MoM only the ghouls could create undead by attacking... Perhaps we are all thinking of a different game

[janekk]

Sowelu is right, but... I thought in MoM only the ghouls could create undead by attacking... Perhaps we are all thinking of a different game

Yeah ghouls not zombies (afaik only way to get zombies is Zombie Mastery spell) but ghouls aren't only ones raising dead after fight, my personal favourites Wrights also do, demon king or something to that effect also does.

[Africa]

MoM certainly has neutral towns, being a major gameplay mechanic, but zombies don't raise other zombies so that strategy is impossible early-game. Hell, even with ghouls and zombie mastery you only get a fraction of the units you kill back as zombies.

If you really want to steamroll everyone early in MoM, use Chaos magic and start spawning hellhounds as often as possible, then send squads of 5-6 of them to knock out all the neutral towns.