What is in your undead horde?

[Ravingdork]

What undead make for GREAT minions, either mechanically or thematically, when obtained via animate dead spell and/or create undead ritual?

What would you want in your undead horde and why?

[The Raven Black]

Severed Head (with Animate Dead) for Final Sacrifice (gotta love the fly speed).

So that my squeaky Good Cleric of wholesome Goodness can animate the head of a corpse lying around, send it behind the frontlines and then detonate it to rain hellish flames on their enemies without having committed a single Evil act.

Untarnished, unblemished.

[PlantThings]

Mummy Guardians are my go to because of their despair aura. No save frightening is quite handy. Being permanently on can be pesky for the party so it’s a prime candidate for Animate Dead to hurl towards the enemy and sustain only when needed. But now with undead PCs, you can go wild with a horde of them. Having mummy minions as a mummy is the dream.

[Perpdepog]

Mummies in general are pretty good undead to have about. Their auras are nice, some have some neat blasting abilities, and they aren't dumb so they can follow complex orders.

Failing mummies I would go for a group of graveknights. Thanks to an AP volume we have graveknights at levels 6, 10, 14, and 15, which match pretty neatly with the -4 levels requirement for minions from Create Dead for a reasonable chunk of your 10+ career, more so if the GM lets you create undead with the Weak or Elite templates. Graveknights also know how to follow orders, assuming they do, can lead lesser undead easily enough, have various elemental attacks to trigger weaknesses, and stay useful into higher levels as reusable cannon fodder because of their ability to regenerate inside of their armor, and come back faster if you're evil enough to "feed" people to their armor.