[maro]

Slow Ben, on 15 March 2010 - 03:43 AM, said:

I'm sticking with my sledgehammer. i know i'll get tired quickly and get eaten soon. But those 10-15 head thwacks with that sledge before i tire, so satisfying.


But seriously, whos gonna be using a sword or something anyway? I'll take the fully automatic shotgun for fending them off at close range.

Oz, Japan and the UK have very limited access to Guns. I know where to find them but the repositories are all in major population areas = Zombie Central.

It's not worth the risk and you'd never be able to grab enough ammo.

Edged weapons are easier to maintain.

I'd head up into the Blue Mountains - there are plenty of dead-end, inaccesible places up there. Hole up. Take my bow and hunt roo etc

[Jusentantaka]

Slow Ben, on 15 March 2010 - 03:43 AM, said:

But seriously, whos gonna be using a sword or something anyway? I'll take the fully automatic shotgun for fending them off at close range.

Like that silly reddit quote: what are you gonna do with these sexy new plastic guns when they jam on you from being put through shit in the bad conditions of the zombie apocalypse? splattered zombie blood, dirt, water, the crap in the fires from all the burning cars and buildings - a recipe for disaster for your automatic, fire-themselves, plastic toy guns. And then what do you do?

"excuse me mr screaming blood thirsty zombie, I need to disasemble and clean my gun, could you give me ten minutes? thank you!"

Gimme one of the new AKs with a scope and bi-pod, and a pair of .45s for up close and personal zombie squickery.

[D'rek]

Aptorian, on 14 March 2010 - 09:55 PM, said:

Reddit doesn't disappoint

http://www.reddit.co..._lie_so/c0iilmu

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Shoot first, aim for the head

Bullllllcrap. When a giant crowd of zombies is headed your way, going for precise headshots is far too slow and inaccurate. As I mentioned in the other thread, zombies still need ligaments and bones to move, even if they dont feel pain. Spray your uzi into the crowd around thigh level and sever all their femurs, you'll have a crowd of zombies that can do naught but crawl in a quarter of the time...

[Gwynn ap Nudd]

With luck, the infestation would occur while I am off doing inspections at a remote mining camp, in which case all I would need to do is stay put. Places in Northern Canada, where you need to carry along extra jerry cans of fuel just to make it to the nearest gas station, are plenty safe enough and definitely loaded for bear.

Failing that, I would grab my buddy Ian and head to the airstrip five minutes away. He has his pilots license, owns a small twin engine and I know the people who run the mining camps. There are a couple I know with dirt landing strips close enough to them that we could hike in within a day. Places well stocked in supplies in prime hunting areas and with streams nearby for fishing. Even if the nearby towns were infested, we could hold off the five or six zombies that would be produced.

[Soulessdreamer]

Put on somthing bite proof (unlike just about every character in the movies) grab weapons and previsions and head to one of the many islands in the gulf. Mototapu is close, low population 30 - 40 use that as a life raft/base of operations for raids into the city or up and down the coast.

old style prisons, castles and stand alone high security building would make the best refuges in city. Team work is essential as it gives you more firepower and some one to watch while you sleep.

Would really only want to eat prepakaged food ad water until sure of vectors of infection a big problem would be contaminated animals, birds, insects not to mention rotting zombie juice ending up in the soil, the watertable the air if burnt.

Geting online or radio to contact other survivors and millitary would be a main goal.

As to killing zombies some of the combine havesters theashers would = fun times making zombie chum.

http://zombietools.net/

and lets not forget that classic kiwi/peter jackson invention http://www.youtube.c...h?v=VnzicdkEBaU

TTFN

[Shinrei]

See, this is why those zombie movies are innaccurate in their portrayal of how people would react. I have little doubt that anyone who has ever watched a zombie flick has later put thought into this subject(much as we all are sharing our ideas now).

That means, the next hollywood zombie movie should include bands of crazy people with melee weapons and firearms, wearing whatever can pass as armor, creating carnage and chaos.

[Slow Ben]

Shinrei, on 16 March 2010 - 03:26 AM, said:

That means, the next hollywood zombie movie should include bands of crazy people with melee weapons and firearms, wearing whatever can pass as armor, creating carnage and chaos.

I want to see this masterpiece. That would be awesome.

[Darkwatch]

It would end up being like

Spoiler

Unta in RotCG. Except instead of crossbows on Guardsmen it'll be an all out melee and gun fire massacre of the living dead.

[Morgoth]

I still hold that the best bet is to find somewhere you can hole up until the winter clears the north of zombies. Having a strategy that depends on fighting zombies at all seems too risky to me.

[Morgoth]

Actually, another plan would be to find where Nicodimas lives. He's bound to have a fully equipped bunker under his house, with electricity, food, water, medicine and weapons.

This post has been edited by Morgoth: 16 March 2010 - 05:44 AM

[Ain't_It_Just_]

MTS, on 15 March 2010 - 11:54 AM, said:

Ain, on 15 March 2010 - 11:15 AM, said:

Battalion, on 15 March 2010 - 09:12 AM, said:

You guys gotta stop thinking short term response, and start getting with the program.

Those zombies are here to stay.

You don't want to be one of them.

But you can't survive alone forever.

The answer?

Fuck 'em all.

zom.jpg

Be the Daddy of a new breed of half blood zombies.

Sorry. I'm not into necrophilia. I've always left that to Morgoth.

"takes cover"

No Tiste wisecrack? For shame, AIJ.

DAMNIT!

This post has been edited by Ain't_It_Just_: 16 March 2010 - 05:52 AM

[Aptorian]

D, on 16 March 2010 - 01:05 AM, said:

Aptorian, on 14 March 2010 - 09:55 PM, said:

Reddit doesn't disappoint

http://www.reddit.co..._lie_so/c0iilmu

Quote

Shoot first, aim for the head

Bullllllcrap. When a giant crowd of zombies is headed your way, going for precise headshots is far too slow and inaccurate. As I mentioned in the other thread, zombies still need ligaments and bones to move, even if they dont feel pain. Spray your uzi into the crowd around thigh level and sever all their femurs, you'll have a crowd of zombies that can do naught but crawl in a quarter of the time...

I believe I would have an easier time aiming for something the size of a football than an inch thick bone in a zombies thigh. Breaking their bones won't necessarily stop a zombie. There's stories of trauma victims and the drug addled walking on broken bones. A zombie won't feel pain, it might just keep walking on the limb, sure eventually that leg will fail, but will it fail fast enough if the Zombie has you in its sights?

Severed ligaments and extreme muscle damage is more likely to make the zombie crippled.

But as always, the only secure thing is damaging the brain.

Also, I'd like to point out that if you wind up in a situation where a hord of zombies is attacking you, you've already failed. Zombie survival is not about trying to battle waves of zombies. It's about making it out of the crowded cities so that you won't have to face more than a few zombies ever.

This post has been edited by Aptorian: 16 March 2010 - 07:34 AM

[Adjutant Stormy~]

Unless you're packing some serious (and absurdly illegal) firepower, you probably will not survive an encounter with more than a few dozen.

RE: Zombieland - It's all about cardio.

[MTS]

I'd think in a zombie apocalypse your biggest threat wouldn't necessarily be zombies, but other people desperate for supplies. So the best bet is to find somewhere, like others have said, that is highly isolated so people won't hold you up at gunpoint for supplies.

Me, I'd go camouflage. Blend in. Zombies don't go for other zombies. Bill Murray is wise. Until he sneaks up on a jittery kid with a shotgun.

[Slow Ben]

Adjutant Stormy, on 16 March 2010 - 07:40 AM, said:

RE: Zombieland - It's all about cardio.

The first to go will be the fatties.

Use that to your advantage.

[cerveza_fiesta]

Do the zombies need to eat at all?

Just wondering what the timeline is before they all starve / run out of energy. Also, can zombies eat other zombies or do they only eat non-zombified flesh? Can they eat baked beans for instance?

If they're working on stored energy since the zombiepocalypse's beginning, the fat zombies will be the last and most hungry ones left standing.

SO...you just hole up with some food in someplace hard to get into...(a la will smith in "I am legend") and wait for a bit.

Then at worst you have slow-ass lard zombies after you, which can more easily be outrun.

Also, try to get to someplace other than USA or Canada, since other countries have far, far less fat people and will be closer to full zombie die-off by the time you emerge from your hiding place.

[rhulad]

I live in Canada, my plan consists of going to my parents and waiting for the zombies to freeze. Food wouldn't be a problem, farm = self sufficient. Also, seeing as I live in Canada, I figure I should have a few days before the zombies get across the border (Lets face it, Canada isn't making any zombies anytime soon) so I should be able to get all the ammunition that I need, and get my good friend Matt who is a gun enthusiast (he has more guns than the Canadian Military) to come out to the farm and bring his guns. All that's left is just shooting anything that gets to close to the house.

[Aptorian]

cerveza_fiesta, on 16 March 2010 - 02:17 PM, said:

Do the zombies need to eat at all?

Just wondering what the timeline is before they all starve / run out of energy. Also, can zombies eat other zombies or do they only eat non-zombified flesh? Can they eat baked beans for instance?

If they're working on stored energy since the zombiepocalypse's beginning, the fat zombies will be the last and most hungry ones left standing.

SO...you just hole up with some food in someplace hard to get into...(a la will smith in "I am legend") and wait for a bit.

Then at worst you have slow-ass lard zombies after you, which can more easily be outrun.

Also, try to get to someplace other than USA or Canada, since other countries have far, far less fat people and will be closer to full zombie die-off by the time you emerge from your hiding place.

Magical or undead zombies presumably are not working on anything, they just are. Magical Zombies probably last for ever. The undead kind will stick around until they rot and fall to pieces. The mutant/intelligent kind is often seen to be able to hunt, so they attack wildlife, other zombies or even human food and plants.

Resident Evil zombies are often seen chewing on each other, this seems kind of instinctual, and they are only doing it until something better shows up. I think it's in the very first game you disturb two zombies munching on a dead scientist and when they react to you they rise up along with the dead scientist and now there three zombies, one of which is pretty chewed up.

[cerveza_fiesta]

ah feck...screw that plan then.

In all honesty, I would find the biggest boat at the nearest marina and live on it with several hunting rifles, pistols and as much ammo as I can get on the boat. I'm talking a 50ft plus sailing vessel. Lots of storage room for supplies and the hot babe I saved from someplace (we'll get to that later).

Then just raid container-ship ports. They're full of imported goods, including food and fuel to support me in the short term. Plus ports are often fenced off from their surroundings, making them a less likely spot for zombie inhabitation. Also, shipping containers would be zombie proof, providing a good retreat in case of emergency...and the place would not be overrun by hungry zombies looking for food since zombies are brainless and have no ability to cut locks on the containers themselves.

Containers would also be very likely to contain other useful items imported to N. America shortly before the zombiepocalypse. I would eventually need to find a map and navigate my way to a south-pacific island where I could clear out the endemic zombie population and live out my days in peace.

This all assumes of course that zombies cannot swim or board vessels in an organized fashion.

It also means I would need to find books on the subject of navigation and some tools to accomplish that task. The tools would come from derelict vessels tied to the container ship docks...meaning minimal leftover crew zombies to deal with. Unfortunatly, the books would require a trip to the public library...and we all know how that scene ends.

[Adjutant Stormy~]

I'd find Bruce Campbell and a chainsaw....