While I lost a few points from the appraisal, they seem much more responsive so I think this is probably a net gain. However I still sometimes see my zombie charge only to immediately retreat for no good reason.

An arisen wyvern zombie lunges forward, closing on a young wyvern before it can retreat!
The wyvern zombie retreats from combat.
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An arisen wyvern zombie lunges forward, closing on a young wyvern before it can retreat!
An arisen wyvern zombie viciously lashes the side of its tail at a young wyvern. The tail lands a strong (7/23) hit to its left leg!

Elusive
mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur

Did you not read the last point? A solid nerf to zombies.

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>What is meant by stance no longer affecting OF/DF? Or am I misreading that?

Command zombie Stance OFF/DEF granted a boost to the zombies OF or DF, basically. Now it doesnt.

Elusive
mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur

They still have a passive ability based on stance, but yes that and the SPECIAL seem to be the only thing stance does now.

Elusive
mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur

Zombies will charge from pole range when aggressive without commanding them to. In defensive they will croak at a single mob engaged to you and pull aggro.

Elusive
mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur

Well, STANCE seemed to basically buff OF at the cost of DF or vice versa. I guess with this now you won't see that DF loss on aggressive, but defenses on a zombie have never (in my experience) been a problem, so yeah, a nerf.

Of all the potential options for scaling back zombies this was probably the kindest. I mean, we still have RPU.

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>>I thought those were the SPECIAL maneuvers? Charge to melee and AoE taunt? I didn't realize there was also a passive charge and ST taunt. Neat.

The SPECIAL ones were +1 editions of the passive.

Zombie Ability	Passive	Special
offensive	Charge mob from pole	Insta-charge+attack from any distance
defensive	Taunt/Pull one mob	Taunt/Pull full room

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