K, so, this is a general discussion where people share tips about surviving the Zombie Apocalypse. The only requirements here are to remember how far the nearest weapon/grocery store is, or how populated the place you live in is. The larger the spot, the more the zombies. So, you can discuss your basic plan about how to survive, but first, ask yourself some questions, like: 1: What kind of resources do I have? 2: What kind of weapons are available to me now? 2: Where will I go? Tell about what your main weapon would be (it doesn't have to be a gun), or where you'll go, or if you can improvise. My main weapons would have to be a shotgun (easy handling, can take out numerous zombies in one shot) or a rifle, and my melee weapon would be a crowbar or an axe, and secondary would be a kitchen or jack knife.
in terms of weapons, i think guns are good, but i would go with a nice melee weapon. its quiet, and you never run out of ammo. also, depending on what kind of zombie your thinking about, the best way to kill a zombie is to crush the skull, or decapitate it, so some of the best weapons are a machete or a katana. they are fast and are good for cutting through the neck of a zombie. other good weapons are something like a hammer. if you use guns, again you need something that can hit the brain. a rifle or a pistol is good, because they can be silenced, and they are good for aiming towards the head. also NEVER use a flamethrower. zombies cant feel pain, so the flames arent gonna stop them. plus instead of a zombie chasing you, its a flaming zombie, even more dangerous.
Fairly simple solution given my geographical location.
Dig out a rucksack and stock with basic food items, camping stove, sleeping bag and as many aerosols as I could fit in.
Remove head from pick axe, one pickaxe handle to use as blunt striking weapon.
Split long-armed garden shears in two, two reasonably sharp stabbing weapons.
Grab a couple of jerry cans for use later.
Travel on foot across fields to local industrial area (3 miles) and break into food distribution centre. Get as much food as possible, bottles of water etc. and put in safe place ready to collect later. Most people would head for retail outlets, but why bother, go straight to the source.
Load up 4x4 vehicle stolen from nearby Mercedes dealership (comes complete with built-in sat nav) and go back to food distribution centre who have their own diesel supply. Fill up with hidden food supply, full tank of diesel for 4x4 and fill jerry cans, then head for the back roads. Travel via backroads to coast line (approximately 80 miles, easily doable on full tank of diesel even on back roads)
Once at coast line, steal a reasonably sized boat, preferably a small pleasure cruiser and load up with food, fill boat with diesel from jerry cans and siphon the diesel from the 4x4 into jerry cans.
Head north by north east towards offshore oil rigs, most of which are only resupplied every few months so are unlikely to be infected. Dock, unload, chill out until the situation is under control.
Any zombies I bump into, aerosols lit from zippo to blind them, then a swift clonk on the head with pickaxe handle. If there are a few, long-arm shears, one in each hand (I've split them remember) and lash about a bit. Should do the trick.
For some reason I can't stop thinking about this thread. Now that I've revealed my secret plan (why I have one in the first place is beyond me) if there is an event where I need to escape flesh-eating zombies, I could now end up in a race with hundreds of others. So I've given it some thought and I now have a plan B.
Everything is the same as plan A, but instead of heading towards the coastline to get a boat, I'd break into a Cat A prison. Think about it. A prison like that is designed to keep people in, but it also does a mighty fine job of keeping people out. Majority have their own power supplies, have ample food stocks and most have riot gear.
Only downside is Cat A prisons tend to house some of the world's premier nutters and psychos, but then I'd rather be surrounded by a group of violent nutcases who wouldn't be averse to a bit of zombie bashing given the opportunity.
a prison is a bad idea because the prisoners could be zombies. and even it they are not they might steal anything you have or the prison is empty, except the zombie prisoners. stands somewhere in this thread, some pages back.
But a Cat A prison is one of the most secure and the majority of the prisoner do not have contact with each other or the outside world, so how would they become infected in the first instance?
they WERE secure, before people relied on big walls and tough fences
these days prisons have fences and lots of tech like alarms and cameras and wahtnot
here's teh wall of text from whati believe is a prison guard
First, within the first few days of a zombie outbreak, nearly all the officers will leave to take care of their own families. This job doesn't come with enough pay for us to stick around during ZPaw. The officers who don't have a family may stick it out for a few days, but once the inmates start rioting in their cells because they aren't getting food, those officers are likely to band together and drive off in a State issued van with some of the better toys from the armory and the last of the food before it gets too bad and head for safer territory.
Second, as scary as it sounds, many inmates know how to get out of their cell if they REALLY had too. Maximum security inmates are locked down 23 hours a day, so they don't get to go to a "chow hall", we have to feed them through a special "ie flap" in their cell door. We have a count time when an officer comes around and counts each inmate individually every couple hours. The first time one or two shifts go by and the inmates don't see any officers or get fed... They're coming out of those cells. The inmates would be in control of the prison in a matter of hours.
Third, other than physical security (fences, thick walls, sturdy doors) prisons don't really offer many resources. In the old days, they grew their own food and were kind of like a self contained city. These days, food services are contracted out and we only have about three days of food stored up. We have an emergency supply for another three days, and after that, all the food is gone. There are plenty of weapons in the armory, and many vehicles, but unless you know where to look for the keys and how to get in, that won't do you much good. If you could get into the infirmary, you might find some good first aid supplies and maybe some medications that would be helpful, but again, unless you have experience with prisons, it would be nearly impossible to know how to access all that stuff.
So if you show up after the outbreak, at best you'll find an empty shell of a facility that has been picked over and devoid of food and most supplies with housing units full of cells with dead or dying inmates in them. At worst, you'll be car jacked at the gate by whatever gang has taken the prison as it's territory.
You can't just have assualt rifles and weapons at your own free will. Only a few families even own firearms, my family only has a 9mm pistol because my mom was a federal agent, so bam
You can't just have assualt rifles and weapons at your own free will. Only a few families even own firearms, my family only has a 9mm pistol because my mom was a federal agent, so bam
Thank you. That's what I'm trying to say. All their tips are is "I would grab a machine gun and go drive away in a truck. My weapons would be a machine guns, tons of grenades, and a katana." Not all of them, though that's the majority's plan.
