Newbie enjoying undead, looking for advice

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Shovah - didn't catch the upkeep with the militia. I have a bunch running around, will have to stab them asap. Wish I could Imprint those tossers into something useful, but I suppose I could suicide charge them at a moderate enemy and pick up the corpses afterwards.

Agrajag - I don't get the other aleph references, but thanks for your advice. Right now I'm playing LA Ermor with the scales you recommended and it's going a lot easier. And in a nice surprise (for me at least, I'm sure it's old hat to everyone else), in my other game of LA R'lyeh, at domain 6 or less and Growth 3 has positive population growth, while around 7 it's balanced or just teetering on a very slow decline (and given how many prophets I have I could probably have kept it at 6 and still worked some decent domain expansion if I'd known that was the break point). I'm playing starting Domain 5, Turmoil 3 / Luck 3 / Growth 3 / Magic 1 / Sloth 2 / Cold 3 (I think I recall someone saying that Cold/Heat have no effect underwater) and having a blast. I just wish more spells worked underwater.