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Mr Reeth
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Posted - 2009.07.27 01:55:00 -
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This is my kind of topic! 
Firstly, make sure you have other survivors. If you are alone you are as good as dead.
Forget melee weapons!!! You don't want to get that close. If one zombie gets his hands on your sword arm you are done for! Any melee weapon capable of decapitating a zombie is also very slow. The movies have romanticized the katana especially. It's a very heavy two-handed sword designed to penetrate armor. A zombie will come straight at you with arms stretched out towards you. They don't give you a clean shot at the neck.
For weapons you want big guns with big slow bullets. You want your shots to take out a chunk of the zombie. You don't want a high speed round that goes in and out unnoticed. Not every shot is going to be a head shot.
But your best weapon is your brain. Zombies have a number of weaknesses that you can exploit. They are dumb. A zombie will fall for even the simplest of traps and ploys. They lack motor skills. Things like nets, ladders, oil slicks, barbwire, pits, barbed ground spikes and trip wires will cause big problems for the clumsy bastards.
While living in a cold place means zombies could freeze solid and become a non-issue the same applies to you. There's more to be concerned about when it comes to surviving the zombie apocalypse than just the zombies you know.
The best place to go would be a small farming island. Farms have food and can make more. Islands have fish and with a much lower population and an end to commercial fishing you'll have increasing fish numbers. The population will be low and being an island means a set number of zombies to deal with and it is highly probable that the island has many other survivors when you consider how far away people live from their neighbors.
But an island in which country? I would opt for Japan.
+Lots of rice. Rice keeps for a long time. More then enough time for you to figure out how to grow it.
+Japan is a relatively wealthy country so even a small island will be well supplied.
+The weather in Japan is not so brutal as to add to your survival problems.
+The Japanese are fairly docile and work well in groups. You won't have renegades putting everyone's life at risk by doing stupid stuff. If you lead, they will follow.
-Few guns... very few guns. All you are likely to find will be a few pistols and shotguns at the local police station.
-Japanese buildings are designed to be easily replaced in case of an earthquake. This means really weak buildings. If the place you set up in is swarmed the zombies might just break through the walls. But more likely they will break through the sliding glass front door.
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Mr Reeth
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Posted - 2009.07.27 16:27:00 -
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 Originally by: Kazuma Saruwatari
Guys, you're forgetting the possibility of food/water contamination. For islands, what if the fish turn zombie? What if the ground becomes so soaked in zombie deadblood that anything grown on it becomes zombie-plants?
This doesn't matter at all. If the infection could be spread to animals the chances for survival would drop to zero.
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Mr Reeth
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Posted - 2009.07.27 17:02:00 -
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Originally by: Micheal Dietrich
Last but not least my town consist of maybe 1500 gun toting rednecks and we're several miles away from the nearest 'large' city (I think its maybe 300,000 currently, tiny compared to some).
For all the crap people give them, we know that the post zombie apocalypse future belongs to the rednecks!
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Mr Reeth
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Posted - 2009.07.28 22:24:00 -
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All anti-personnel weapons are designed to kill humans, not zombies. There is no weapon that is truly the best for fighting zombies. It is all situational.
A flamethrower can be useful. If you have a crapload of zombies all close together in a mall parking lot, then a flame thrower is a great way to turn a horde of deadly zombies into a pile of inert ash.
Explosives are great for mass amounts of zombies as well. Landmines, grenades, TNT and C4 can be used against zombies with devastating results. And while you may not get a lot of kills I'd rather be fighting 1000 half zombies than 1000 whole zombies any day.
Traps are great but traps require bait... and there's only one bait for zombies and that's us! But even this can be turned into an advantage. Zombies walk in a straight line. You can lead an entire city of zombies into a gasoline filled BBQ pit if you set it up right. (be sure to have a way out of the pit for yourself)
Zombies are dead, but their senses still work. Pepper spray, mace and flashbangs may not work but rig a powdered bleach bomb and turn that zombie army following you blind and unable to smell.
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Mr Reeth
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Posted - 2009.07.28 22:47:00 -
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Originally by: Jack Airron
Originally by: Mr Reeth
Explosives are great for mass amounts of zombies as well. Landmines, grenades, TNT and C4 can be used against zombies with devastating results. And while you may not get a lot of kills I'd rather be fighting 1000 half zombies than 1000 whole zombies any day.
mines are desind to take your legs off not damage the brain.
Please reread what I wrote.
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Mr Reeth
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Posted - 2009.07.29 04:06:00 -
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Originally by: Jack Airron
so where are you going to get 1000 claymores?
Are you trolling me in a thread about the zombie apocalypse? Really?
Well, I never said anything about a thousand and I never said Claymores.
But a passable landmine can be rigged without too much trouble if you're in a place with basic electronic supplies and something that goes boom. Homemade landmine plans can be found on the interwebs.
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