Bone spirit and bone spear? Weren't you reading my post? No offense, have you ever played a necromancer...?

Corpse explosion works on everything, to the best of my knowledge. In this case, cows, cows, more cows. All of them with similar amounts of HP. Lure a big group of them (my highest count was about twenty-something). Explode one bovine corpse, and the radius catches most of the others if I position it well. That's how I slaughtered them. I don't foresee a problem here, unless the cows in Hell are immune to corpse explosion. *shrugs* I don't have the patience (nor the masochism) to drag myself to complete Nightmare; it benumbs my higher brain functions after a while. (So did the Normal level, but then there was some promise of novelty.) I tried the cow level just to see what's all the fuss about.