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0bsessions:

--- Quote from: thegreatbuddha on 05 Nov 2007, 14:50 ---My plan, if I can make it out of Atlanta, is to hole up on Amelia island in Florida. It's surrounded by a river and the ocean,so hopefully the zombies cant make it there once I blow the bridge. Since its in florida, I shouldbe able to get at least two growing seasons, so I wont starve. Also, its fucking nice down there.

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Absolute shit idea. Judging by maps, that island is close enough to the mainland that zombies could easily just cross beneath the surface of the water and make it there in a matter of days. Once they're ON the island, you've already destroyed your only means of escape, so you might as well just set yourself on fire so the zombies at least have a warm meal.

thegreatbuddha:
1. There's a marina

2. Having tried to wade on theriver bank, I can safely say the current is fast. Probably fast enough to knock a zombie off course and deposit it in the Atlantic.

Scandanavian War Machine:
@Anyways

yeah, Banlieu 13 is a really sick movie. But it's only as sick as a movie can be without zombies. David Belle is the man.

Ozymandias:

--- Quote from: Something Witty on 05 Nov 2007, 14:53 ---Actually, most machine guns are very accurate when not fired on full auto. You're not going to hit things with an M4 that you will with a PSG1 or Barret, but a trained marksman can hit a head-sized target with semi-auto fire from 1-200 yards standing without a scope. In WW2 there are confirmed 800+meter kills with bipod(The really big ones, ones that nobody is going to carry) machine guns fired with one round in the chamber as opposed to the ammo belt, and a scope mounted.

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Which, again, comes back to two things: training and not using fully-auto fire. An accurate, semi-automatic rifle with a large clip is going to be your best bet in the short-to-mid range, but only if you've got the training to make sure you're using it well and aren't about to get ate.

KharBevNor:
I say it's better to have a gun than not, but not to rely on a gun. Also you want a sensible gun. As I've said earlier, for UK residents your best bet going is going to be any L98A1's you can get hold of. Americans can get much more suitable things. Are AK-47's legal over there? Keep it on semi and that's probably the most utilitarian weapon for the zombocalypse. Also, remember, you might not just be dealing with zombies. You may need to hunt for food, there may be feral kids or just regular folk who are driven mad by the arrival of the undead and turn into skulking cannibal things that kill others on sight. There will certainly be packs of feral dogs. In the US you might have to worry about all sorts of additional shit. Bears for example. Goodness knows how a zombie uprising will effect wildlife. Then, there's absolutely no guarantee other survivors are going to want to co-operate with you. After all, in a way, you're competition.

This US/UK dichotomy really is pretty crucial. In the UK, you're really going to have to hole up somewhere with supplies and sweat this shit out. You're going to need a list of places in mind where you can get military rations, camping rations and lots of canned food. I personally recommend coastal forts* with some sort of facility to launch boats that is relatively innaccessible to zombies, or at least can be cleared quite easily. Otherwise, castles in general are quite a good idea. Castles in the middle ages held out for months or years against intelligent enemies with siege weapons. Remember, given a bit of time the zombies will hopefully rot and disintegrate. They might also freeze in the winter if you're at the right latitude (and World War Z makes a good case for how a full-scale zombocalypse could induce an effect not unlike a mini nuclear winter, as fires rage unchecked). Also, as said before, no reason to suppose anything about these zombies. Slow freezing might well do enough tissue damage to kill them. In the US, on the other hand, mobility is good. There's space to move around, especially in the midwest. Get some horses and enough people together to handle effective 24 hour watches. Flit from place to place, only go near towns if you really need food.

*The two others apart from the Solent Forts that immediately sprung to my mind are Tintagel Castle and the Needles Old Battery. There's some good ones in Wales and Scotland. If you had a lot of survivors and superhuman organisational skills, you could try clearing off Guernsey and getting the old nazi sea-defences system into working order. The tides around there are nuts as well, which might deter, or at least deflect, possible sea-floor zombies. That's more the kind of place where you begin establishing your new world order after the zombies rot though.

EDIT: also, in Gabbly, I thought up a perfect tool which everyone in an urban setting WILL require to survive the zombocalypse.

A KILLDOZER.



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