Undead be a funny bunch. Yes, they have good creature type characteristics. Still most of the undead pieces are simply not very good. Despite this there is a tremendous amount of undead hate about, perhaps more so than for any other creature type. Lots of undead hate spells, like chill touch. Most significantly though, the Sacred Watcher. The final undead hate piece. So good that it's mere existence should put any notions of ever running an undead band to rest. Yet, any competive undead warbands to come out from Unhallowed must negotiate the presence of this piece.

Just how good is the Sacred Watcher? Well, incorporeal means its 30 hitpoints are equivalent to 60 hitpoints. Fearless means these 60 hitpoints are effective hitpoints, whereas in case of non-fearless pieces, some hitpoints tend to run away. We might thus approximate the hitpoints of the Sacred Watcher to 75 non-fearless hitpoints. 75 hitpoints protected by AC 21 and armed with a +10 (10) attack. If you are unfortunate enough to be an undead and on the wrong end of the Sacred Watcher's "evil undead slayer" ability the stats of the Sacred Watcher would however instead be approximated to 75 hp, AC 21,+10(20). In short, for 18 points you get a unit with the staying power of a Gulgar and the offensive power of a Half-Ogre Barbarian. Oh, and this unit can also fly trough walls.

Any competive undead warbands to come out of Unhallowed must however be able to take on these stats and win. Else they will not be competive, as simple as that. So, how would one then expect this presumed competiveness of the Unhallowed undead to come about?

One way would be to raise the base stats of the Unhallowed undead to take on the Sacred Watcher's hate boosted stats. Only problem is this would probably break the game. Think something like a 36 pts undead hitter, AC21, 90 hp, speed 8 with a +11/+11 (20) attack. Think the PanzerMinotaur (TM).

Another way would be to increase the availability of Chill Touch. Think something like a Chill Touch Gatling Gun. Three ranged Turn Undead 20 spells each turn, unlimited. That would send those Sacred Watchers packing alright. Only problem is such a unit would hit every other undead unit as hard. Which would not do much for their competiveness at all.

Control undead is a similar case to Turn Undead. If made available to the evil factions it would allow them to not only counter the Sacred Watchers, but also to turn their strength against them. However, if control undead spells was made too cheaply available this would make undead units too easily dealt with by other evil warbands.

Ghost Touch would seem to offer the most viable solution, based on what's available today. One would frankly expect to see in Unhallowed a cost effective spell which gives a target Ghost Touch and/or some really viable incorporeal hate pieces to counter the Sacred Watcher. How anyone else would dare field large numbers of undead I do not see.