I might have been confused by the default HD used for zombies of unspecified monsters. According to Gretell, ogre zombies and wyvern zombies have the same health and stats scaled the same way, despite being 5 HD Z and 5 HD z, respectively.
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The guys on ##crawl-dev told me that you looked into this at some point... and there is some drawback to using Z, making the zombie stronger?
I might have been confused by the default HD used for zombies of unspecified monsters. According to Gretell, ogre zombies and wyvern zombies have the same health and stats scaled the same way, despite being 5 HD Z and 5 HD z, respectively.
If the drawback doesn't exist, I'd be very much in favour of changing wyverns to Z. I keep getting mauled by them...
I don't see what this has to do with me, unassigning.