Zombie strength

Rowan11088 said:
I could see some sort of formula where strength is inversely proportional to brain mass.
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BRAINNSSS!!

long range you're looking at one of these as ideal
aa-12-automatic-
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I disagree on your definition of long range. Also ammo's gonna be a major concern, you need to be able to carry as much as possible. You'll also want something as reliable as possible, with decent stopping power as they typically ignore flesh wounds.

I'm thinking a Remington 700 would fit the bill rather nicely, but there's a lot of suitable similar weapons out there. A shotgun would make a nice back up, but I'm thinking the reliability of a pump makes up for the showoff potential of the aa-12.
 
The modified snowblower is a great idea....
 
oh damn... ian's right. Forget it, we just need a giant pooper scooper to move the bodies then.

and the aa12 is supposed to be a pretty damn reliable gun, for handling a horde I think it'd be pretty damn useful. For sniping, probably not, anything under 75 yards though, the aa12 is my choice. I'm certain you could get a backpack full of lighter ammo than the frag grenade shells, but who would pass up the fantasy of an automatic grenade launcher?
 
Readable book. Too much time spent developing the author's own, unique zombie-mythology and not enough on planning to survive the zombocalypse, but plenty of survival and zombie-fighting nonetheless. :)
 
Urban said:
oh damn... ian's right. Forget it, we just need a giant pooper scooper to move the bodies then.

and the aa12 is supposed to be a pretty damn reliable gun, for handling a horde I think it'd be pretty damn useful. For sniping, probably not, anything under 75 yards though, the aa12 is my choice. I'm certain you could get a backpack full of lighter ammo than the frag grenade shells, but who would pass up the fantasy of an automatic grenade launcher?
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If you're going to blow them apart you need to make sure you have suitable range so that, depending on how virulant the strain is, you would be upwind of any airborne pathogens.

If it could seep through the pores and infect you, I would want to be in a hazmat suite many hundred of metres away with a sniper rifle, preferably on a roof top.

If not that vitulant, chain mail, sawn off shotgun (incase the numbers get too much) and a couple of kukri knifes and a back up machete. They are all designed to hack and aren't really (baring maybe the kukri's) supposed to be that sharp. God knows you wouldn't something that was supposed to be sharp, you'd be constantly working on the blade after the frenzies.


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It would also depend on the speed of said zombies. If they are very fast ala resident evil, then I would want to just keep to the staying out of the way option and long range killing. God knows you wouldn't outrun them.
If they were slow ala dawn of the dead though, light chain mail just to stop getting bitten. You would want the option of running away and being agile to get into buildings/over obstacles, since there would always be a few hundred of them in a given 1 mile squ radius.

The zombie diaries that i can't remember the name of now is good for what if. It's told from personal accounts and what they went through. One random story involving a female pilot who crash lands and is in the middle of no where. After this and that she climbs up a tree to sleep and she is woken up by noises at the base. There are about 15 zombies encircling her and more on the way.
 
Zombies are one of my favorite horror movie entities, they've been so well done over the years they can represent any number of different things (the end of times, the sub-elite classes, the diseased), and caused by so many different things (spiritual, corporate, government, etc.) that people actually believe WWZ will one day arrive. one things for sure... I'm gonna need an AA12 and some ammo...
 
Urban said:
Zombies are one of my favorite horror movie entities, they've been so well done over the years they can represent any number of different things (the end of times, the sub-elite classes, the diseased), and caused by so many different things (spiritual, corporate, government, etc.) that people actually believe WWZ will one day arrive. one things for sure... I'm gonna need an AA12 and some ammo...
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Thats it


World War Z
 
I'm still betting on my weighted aluminum baseball bat as a primary melee weapon... assuming we're not dealing with some "every bit keeps on coming" video dead type shit, a bat with some weight in the end. maybe just a half dozen 3/8" bolts just long enough to get a nut tighened on sticking through it at the end would be enough and add some more focused points of impact for better damaging the cranium.

and hazmat suits? you ever been in a class a full containment suit? you couldn't fight the zompocolypse in that for more than half an hour... you'd dehydrate, overheat and die. No, if pore transmission is a reality, you definitely want to be on a rooftop somwhere with a lot of ammo for a mortar and a good rifle. I still like the aa12 w/ grenade rounds... but I think it's practicality in this case IS much less limited.

I just think the shotgun has had some notable cinematic success when fighting zombies. Spread, mobility and ease of use in a panic situation really lend itself to the zombie novice. the grenade rounds I only continue to mention since they extend the range to over 100 yards due to their design, and it's likely that the concussion from the shockwave would damage the brain of the zombie enough to kill it without a direct headshot.
 
If pore transmission is a reality, I wouldn't want to be exposed, hence standing around in the hazmat suite on a roof. You couldn't fight in it for sure.

The plan would be on a roof, shoot or mortar as suggested, watch the fall out then go through decontamination (and remove outter hazmat layer) into a secure environment. Although as I said in the pub you would hope it isn't a very virulant strain inorder to reach ground water. Because then you would have a long time problem.
 
Basically I'm thinking worst case as far as contageousness is concerned, is similar to the flu. Airborne in close proximity, incubation period, sudden onset, limited risk for infecting food an water supply. I can't think of any present day bacteria or virusses that pose that kind of risk... i suppose if it were to hit in spore form like botulism, you limit how contageous it is, but increase the liklihood it would hit your food and/or water supplies.

Best case scenario, it's a witch doctor with a couple undead servants. No illness, just a couple resurrected corpses. Beat, flame, maim, and aerosolize them all you want. Then shoot the doc in the head.
 
Urban said:
Basically I'm thinking worst case as far as contageousness is concerned, is similar to the flu. Airborne in close proximity, incubation period, sudden onset, limited risk for infecting food an water supply. I can't think of any present day bacteria or virusses that pose that kind of risk... i suppose if it were to hit in spore form like botulism, you limit how contageous it is, but increase the liklihood it would hit your food and/or water supplies.

Best case scenario, it's a witch doctor with a couple undead servants. No illness, just a couple resurrected corpses. Beat, flame, maim, and aerosolize them all you want. Then shoot the doc in the head.
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ive always thought a water tower would be an excellent position for height/provisional reasons.
 
Good thread, huh guys? :)
 
*note to self; if zombies attack, go to Urbans house*
 
Let me put my monster-movie nerd prowess to work here...

To the best of my knowledge, prior to George Romero's 1968 "Night of the Living Dead," zombies in horror films were pretty much just cheap labor -- sad-sack, non-cannibalistic characters that carried out the will of others. Probably the best zombie movie in this vein is the 1932 Bela Lugosi pic "White Zombie," which features terrific cinematography and a passable plot.

"NOTLD" changed everything -- suddenly the zombies were independent and they preyed upon the living. I seem to recall reading some film-crit essay about how this egalitarian re-imagining of the zombie archetype reflected some kinda Marxist ideal. "The workers must control the means of production" or something.

Anyway, I would want to kill zombies with a ray gun.
 
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