Death Knight Raise the Dead

Cost: 1500 Gold
Mana: 50
Time to Upgrade: 100

The dark magik is the final legacy of the Orc Necrolytes who were destroyed shortly after the First War. The Death Knight can animate corpses of the newly dead and command these monstrosities to attack their enemies.

Raise the Dead can allow you to get some Skeletons after a battle. Skeletons however are only slightly more powerful than Peons. Grunts can easily kill Skeletons. Knowing this, mana is best spent on Death and Decay rather on Raising the Dead. Death and Decay can cause much more damage than any Skeletons raised from battle. However when Farm space is limited or the map is out of resources you can use your remaining Death Knights to create an undead army out of left over Peons with no resources but mana spent.

Skeletons require no farms.

Sometimes when you cast Raise the Dead on a recently killed unit nothing happens. That is because before your Death Knight can raise a skeleton the dead unit must decay down to bones before it can be turned into a Skeleton. So If it doesn't work, wait a second, and try again.

Skeletons will only last a certain amount of time after which they explode on their own.