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plans for the inevitable undead uprising
Ozymandias:
A sword can hack soft tissue just fine, but if you're up against a zombie horde, removing soft tissue isn't very helpful. You need a good crushing blow into the skull and unless you have a rather hefty(and largely useless) claymore or something, that's not going to cut it(hurr).
A fire axe gives you good lever action, sending a lot more force into one crushing area of the skull. A baseball bat allows you to deliver a massive crushing blow to a skull with little to no threat of injuring yourself in the process. A sword, at best, will end up with someone losing an arm and, either zombie or human, that doesn't help.
Also, anyone who offers up chainsaws gets to be the first thrown over the side of the QC fort's walls to conserve food.
--- Quote from: Emaline on 04 Nov 2007, 22:55 ---According to a guy I know, the boat plan is not so great
(n/a) (12:41:32 AM): That might be a good idea and it might be a bad idea.
(n/a) (12:42:32 AM): Giant flotillas of the living dead, their bloated bodies thrown together and drifting across the seas in deadly sheets kilometers square...
andlemonade (12:38:18 AM): Well, I doubt most zombies can swim(Hell, if you go by Zombies Ate My Neighbors standards, water will kill the zombies. But if you go by that standard, then drinking mysterious purple liquids will totally turn you into a monter for a short period of time!), and I doubt they'd be smart enough to piece together a zombie body raft
andlemonade (12:38:41 AM): However, if a zombie were to get on the ship, I'd be more than screwed
(n/a) (12:44:57 AM): No, no. Just think of how debris clumps together in water.
(n/a) (12:45:25 AM): Now think of a million god damned corpses bloated with every imaginable foul glass following suit.
(n/a) (12:49:24 AM): Mountains would be a good bet.
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The threat of zombie flotsam is real, but not as big as your friend implies, I'd think. Zombies thrash about too much to get a really big Legion-like mass going. If they got tangled together, they'd rip themselves apart into useless zombie chunks. If they stayed still long enough to make a sufficiently large sheet of the undead, though, then got riled up by the scent of food....that scene of would pretty much be the one of the most horrible/awesome things in the world to watch. A churning, bubbling sea of zombies ripping apart into a gory, bloody mess in the ocean.
You do get ridiculous bonus points for bringing up Zombies Ate My Neighbors, though. In a worst case scenario, we can always open a Pandora's Box.
ampersandwitch:
My plan is to stay away from the army-enforced base camp, because they are all crazy and obsessed with procreation. The insanity and spoilt food is not worth dealing with to get the pretty red dress that comes with the deal. Also, Cillian Murphy almost dies, which is not something I am willing to deal with at this point in my life.
Really though?
I would probably take a backpack full of the canned goods I bought from Tesco, my comforter, matches, a towel, reading material and my laptop to the top floor of my cafeteria. I read the zombie handbook, and it said that a staircase you can knock out so the zombies can't reach you would be optimal. I would probably be stuck up there with a bunch of other kids that I didn't like. I would probably eat them if we ran out of supplies, though, so it all works out in the end.
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Emaline, it makes no sense to use something that would require you to get close to something that does not feel pain, and in great numbers could easily overpower you. Having the strength and tools to repeatedly decapitate or somehow otherwise incapacitate possibly hundreds of the undead is a very unlikely possibility, and it is simply impractical to risk it. Firearms and explosives are far more reasonable means of destroying the zombie hoard.
ETAA
What. People post so fast.
Emaline:
--- Quote from: ampersandwitch on 05 Nov 2007, 01:55 ---
ETA
Emaline, it makes no sense to use something that would require you to get close to something that does not feel pain, and in great numbers could easily overpower you. Having the strength and tools to repeatedly decapitate or somehow otherwise incapacitate possibly hundreds of the undead is a very unlikely possibility, and it is simply impractical to risk it. Firearms and explosives are far more reasonable means of destroying the zombie hoard.
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I wasn't arguing that swords are good for zombie slaying. I just wanted to know why they were not. Personally, I am more of a gun, baseball bat sort of person, but...
Firearms, and explosives are fun and good and everything, but once your run out of ammo, then what? You are screwed. If a zombie apocalypse did happen, I would choose a gun last.
Ozymandias:
How many people think they're a good enough shot to de-brain a zombie at distance? Because unless you're military or a ridiculously avid hunter, you're not.
A gun is only as effective as its user. That effectiveness increases as distance decreases. By the time your target is close enough for a good deathblow, it's close enough that if you don't make that one shot count, you're as good as dead. There are only two situations where a gun is optimal: if you, for some god forsaken reason, have a fully-loaded assault shotgun and relatively few zombies in your face or you're in a fortification, defending it from a safe position. Otherwise, you're one unlucky shot or empty clip away from being lunch.
Reflexes are your greatest friend when facing an undead adversary. Quick, skull piercing weapons in close range are something anyone can use and should have. Spike is also correct, a solid knowledge of how to use and kill with a polearm-type weapon is even better, but good luck having one and knowing how to use it effectively.
I think I've thought too much about this.
ruyi:
the popularity of this fantasy has always struck me as bizarre. for the longest time i simply could not fathom why my friend was obsessed with zombies.
i suppose i can kind of understand now. since the premise is that everyone else has turned into a zombie, this is essentially a fear of being alone, which is what we're all scared of, deep down inside, so thinking about how you'd deal with a zombie apocalypse is a way of working through that fear.
right?
sorry, i know i said it like it was past tense, but what i am saying is basically, i still do not understand you people. or this thread.
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