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plans for the inevitable undead uprising
Boro_Bandito:
Zombies don't actually need sustenance, they're dead. The body only reacts to basic instincts for hunting food and sees all moving things as that target and will mimic the motions. You have to worry about how long the zombies will be able to survive as far as rotting goes, to where their muscles have fully deteriorate or they can no longer maintain connection between brain and body.
est:
Oh also, I have to remember that I am in Australia. It's pretty hard to get guns here, but you could probably get some if you knew where to look. Unfortunately those places are normally gun shops in towns that would be full of the ravening undead, stored in locked cabinets. There's also weapons shops in the city, but they are in the fucking city. I live in a city suburb, so it'd be hard for me to escape unscathed. It is a good 45mins drive to get out of the metropolitan area and into sparser, less dense suburbs, and that is without the streets being packed with undead/people trying to escape. I would have two options: 1, hole up for a bit until the initial hubbub dies down, then make a break for it. 2, find a motorbike and try my luck, perhaps with a couple of friends.
Unfortunately for me I can't really think of a single good place near me to hole up in the event of zombie outbreak. My house is fairly zombie-proof, though. At least in the short-term. I have a high back fence with a metal door, so I doubt any zombies could come through my backyard. If they did somehow get in to my backyard I have one large window that is covered in a metal grate, and an inaccessible small window. I live in a terrace house, so I'm covered on either side by thick concrete walls and other houses. The front of my house has a door and a window, both with metal grates. In the event of zombie outbreak I could stock up on supplies and lay low, occasionally scanning radio frequencies for news reports. I also have a "middle door" of sorts that leads to an enclosed courtyard. If there was some sort of breach I could go out that door, up onto the terrace rooftops and try to find the least zombie-clogged area to jump down.
That isn't really a good plan, though. If there was a 24hr warning period (as a lot of people seem to be saying, for some reason) I could perhaps procure a motorbike and head off. The motorbike would make it easier to work my way through traffic, and if I got a trailbike I could even cut across yards/farms/etc once they appeared. That plus a backpack of rations as well as some kind of weapons. At present the usable weapons I have include a hammer, a baseball bat, a set of hardwood nunchuku and a huge prybar (unwieldy), which seems horribly underprepared. I would definitely take the hammer and the bat, then forage along the way.
One problem with this idea is that I don't know where I would be heading, other than "the fuck out of the city". Another is that I don't really have any "outdoors" skills, so once I got into the bush/country I would be pretty screwed.
LordNagash:
@Boro_Bandito and Whipstitch
http://www.thearma.org/essays/thrusting_vs_cutting.html
From the article:
"The Romans, often cited as personifying the epitome of thrusting swordplay, actually stressed both cut and thrust with their wide-bladed gladius and eventually adopted the longer spatha, or cutting blade."
The axe in a sheild wall argument makes sense, though I think I would end up using my sword. Especially since I lack a group of people to sheild wall with.
As for other people, that is what I would really want a gun for. Preferably a simple rifle. Though the rockies are pretty close, so I would probably go there. Doubt I would meet many others.
Boro_Bandito:
Roof-hopping is definitely preferable to traveling on the ground, you could see how far you could make it by terrace and create ways of getting off that zombies can't follow (see rope). Also, make a couple of sets of rope ladders to use to get down once your away from a large group of zombies considering they're just crowding around your house because they caught your scent. Also, might start wanting to read books on basic wilderness survival, things like how to survive flash floods, prevent heat stroke and harvesting water, all problems in the Australian bush. Books of edible plant life and insect life would also be good, because while eating bugs is nasty as all hell, if its between that and death you'd rather eat a bug that isn't going to kill you from poison.
Patrick:
--- Quote from: LordNagash on 03 Feb 2008, 22:31 ---From the article:
"The Romans, often cited as personifying the epitome of thrusting swordplay, actually stressed both cut and thrust with their wide-bladed gladius and eventually adopted the longer spatha, or cutting blade."
The axe in a sheild wall argument makes sense, though I think I would end up using my sword.
--- End quote ---
You seem to miss the point behind using it in battle against zombies though. Zombies don't give a damn about a flesh wound, you can only kill them by destroying the brain. A sword ain't gonna be much use in cutting into a skull, there's just not enough momentum behind it. THAT'S what the point was.
Maybe you can try for a neck shot, but that'd involve a sideways swing, and you don't want to give them a chance to grab your arm when you pull back for a second hit. Even if you do slash at them while you're pulling back, your arm isn't going to be as fast as your initial swing. As for a forehead stab into the brain, well, it's possible, but it's a much more difficult shot unless you've had a lot of practice doing accurate stabs.
Axe vs. sword in zombie battle? No contest.
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