| Statistics | 
| Walking Dead | 
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| Cost per troop |  
|  100
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| Special abilities: | 
| • Undead | 
| Zombie | 
| 
| Cost per troop |  
|  125
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| Special abilities: | 
| • Undead • Disease
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Walking Dead and Zombies are level 2 creatures of Necropolis town. They are recruited from the Graveyard.
"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." RoE manual
Special ability disease
Zombies have disease special ability, which may occur before the target stack has a chance to retaliate. The attack has 20% chance of causing the target to become ill, which causes the target stack to have their attack and defense values reduced by two for a period of three rounds. Disease can only be removed with Cure spell.
Heroes with a specialty
 Straker the Death Knight has walking dead as a 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. Straker the Death Knight has walking dead as a 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.
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