[Gatts]

Just to heat up the ghost scenario in the game - I am now in the middle of the game (Dwarven lands) and by nearly each battle I accumulate more ghosts (I couldn't hire cursed ghosts which are better till now) now I have over 800 ghosts in my back up army (good that there is not leadership cap on the backup army) - so if I fight any hard battle or I fight with undead (when vamps nor ghosts can not steal life) I can replenish my ghost stack right after the battle.

I know that one stack can't win battles, but even w/o tollerance I always can hire a lot of armies that are not undead and do not care (animals, plants..)

Where to hire undead? Well - this is all about RANOMIZATION of the game, but in the first map there is a undead ship - if you are lucky skel archers are there also (but mostly always zombies or decayed zombies) (zombies and normal skells are better than they look like - imune to mind at low levels, resistant to poison, and having the rush +2 speed skill can decimate enemies that are faster in INIT, but don't count that my army can increase it's speed for free - after all zombies have nice defence and more LP than others)

Also nearly always (maybe always but not always I had checked) on the swamp cementry are ghosts to be hired - so if you are skilled adventure map runner - you can avoid the strong undead armies (strong they are when you are level 1~3 and play impossible) get to the cursed house (when you enter the cementry, turn left, left, right, there you are) and you can smash weak neutrals building up ghosts in numbers.
In the same map - finish first quest for furious paladin normally, and let him die in the second quest (destroy all statues) - he will have random undead armies!
And still in the swamp - the evil boy (or undead boy?) has often good undead armies - I bought from him 80 vamps and 150 skell archers (yep - I had leadership only for 4 vamps, but I moved them always to the castle garrison - becouse when you defeat the boy-his undead armies will vanish, and will be replaced with living one... EW! )
And yes - sometimes has the alchemist zombies as well. (not always though)