Dead Hand (Major Spoilers!!)

Ok, so i got the quest from the necromancer to raise the 10 undead with the dead hand about three weeks ago now.  I've been checking everyday for the necromancer to try to build up my 'army' of skellies, and had about 30 in one town with a handful of units, but they didn't eat any!  I am hoping that anyone that has completed this quest can give me some tips or tricks as to how to get the skellies to eat my units so that i can move on with this quest.  As it is, it is taking what seems like forever.  Does my hero have to be in the same town as the skellies?  Does it matter if there is also a whole bunch of siege weapons mixed in with the infantry units?  Is it better to send the skellies and a few infantry to their own town and let them at it?  Does the ratio of skellies to infantry make a difference?  Please help!!

Ok, so i got the quest from the necromancer to raise the 10 undead with the dead hand about three weeks ago now.  I've been checking everyday for the necromancer to try to build up my 'army' of skellies, and had about 30 in one town with a handful of units, but they didn't eat any!  I am hoping that anyone that has completed this quest can give me some tips or tricks as to how to get the skellies to eat my units so that i can move on with this quest.  As it is, it is taking what seems like forever.  Does my hero have to be in the same town as the skellies?  Does it matter if there is also a whole bunch of siege weapons mixed in with the infantry units?  Is it better to send the skellies and a few infantry to their own town and let them at it?  Does the ratio of skellies to infantry make a difference?  Please help!!

Hi, I didnt finished the quest yet, but , as far as I noticed, they are eating every 3 days. No need to have hero or siege units inside, only infantry in my case. I feed them also with bards and spies, lol

The quest takes a long time. Be patient. As long as you leave some people in town for them to eat you will finish eventually.

Ok, so after i made this post, we had a major update (where major culture hits were given to siege buildings), and magically, my skellies were eating a lot of units - i'd enter the town and find at least twice a day they had a meal.  I'm not saying anything was changed during the update, but the timing seems rather suspicious, since previous to that, my skellies were with the same troops for a week without eating any.  So that went on steadily for some time, up until yesterday's update.  Normally, i would wake up in the morning, enter the town and find bulat's warning that troops were missing, etc.  But they have not eaten one unit since yesterday's update, not even after leaving the game for several hours to sleep and logging in again in the moring.  Is it possible that something was fixed, and then somehow 'broken' again with this last update?  I now have 46 skellies in this town, and up until yesterday they were eating units slowly, but consistently.

Is there anything to do at Ardan Cemetery ? I lied to mayor, then told him to give skeletons his rams, then I attacked skeletons anyway using living units, skeletons respawned quickly but didn't attack again and that's it.

Anyone killed skeletons instead of villagers in Ardan Cemetery ? What is the reward ?

Killing villagers give some xp and make spawning skeletons faster.