Your zombie invasion survival strategy

[Zathganastan]

I'm not saying Bombs won't kill them. But Fire won't.

Also, where would you get the Bombs? And where would you find a Large enough Plane to drop all of these bombs?

The B-52 Stratofortress can carry dozens of the things. If you really want killing power, then get B-1B Lancers with external hardpoints.
As for getting them, well, the US military has bombs aplenty. And if zombies are on the loose, I'm sure one can convince the President to bomb zombies.

The problem in that would be now that basic civilization has fallen, the military and all it's assets are either scattered, on the run, or dead, so finding a pilot and aircraft large enough for large scale bombings would be nearly impossible.Then even if you did manage to scrap something together, without a safe place to land or refuel the aircraft would eventually have to crash.

[Esternial]

I think you are just afraid to admit you're wrong in some way. You have to shoot the head. And if a person gets bitten, shoot him/her in the head.

Look mate, I'm no zombie expert. However, I've watched Shaun of the Dead and I'm pretty sure if you burn something it dies.

That only counts for things that are alive.

Zombies are not.

Lawyered.

[Knoxcrest]

Look mate, I'm no zombie expert. However, I've watched Shaun of the Dead and I'm pretty sure if you burn something it dies.

That only counts for things that are alive.

Zombies are not.

Lawyered.

I don't think Shaun of the Dead is a credible source anyway...

And it'll probably take a while to get hot enough to melt the zombie's brain anyway, it's plenty of time to kill you before it dies.

[Glasgia]

Look mate, I'm no zombie expert. However, I've watched Shaun of the Dead and I'm pretty sure if you burn something it dies.

That only counts for things that are alive.

Zombies are not.

Lawyered.

Undead = Not Dead = Alive

Zombies aren't dead, they're infected. Anyways, I'll quote my serious plan. NITPICK AT WILL!!!

Shaun of the Dead style, or go like this:

Grab all the big knives from your kitchen as soon as I'm sure the outbreak will reach me. Then I'd pack food and bottled water (I wouldn't drink any water that wasn't sealed before the oubreak as it could contain the disease), and head for the nearest gun store. An armed midnight raid to steal guns and ammo (as long as you run you'll probably get away with it as the police is preparing for a zombie invasion).

Know I'm prepared for some action, head to the nearest port. Raid a local supermarket and grab all the long lasting foods and more water. Steal a small-medium sized motorized boat (I'll work out how to drive it quickly enough) and set course for the most isolated islands you can think of.
The chances of me pulling something like this off at the moment are probably 1/1,000,000. In a zombie apocalypse, more like 50-50. The police won't care about break-ins, security guys will most likely fuck off and go solo, most people will hand over their boat as they think they'll die anyway and an un-inhabited island can't be infected.

[Glasgia]

I don't think Shaun of the Dead is a credible source anyway...

[Immoren]

I don't think Shaun of the Dead is a credible source anyway...

Me thinks it is most realistic one.

[Esternial]

That only counts for things that are alive.

Zombies are not.

Lawyered.

I don't think Shaun of the Dead is a credible source anyway...

And it'll probably take a while to get hot enough to melt the zombie's brain anyway, it's plenty of time to kill you before it dies.

Fire is good enough to destroy their muscle tissue, which is probably the only thing keeping them afoot.

Either way, zombies die even without you having to help them along.

They'd probably get eaten by wild predators and maggots, hot weather will cause them to explode from putrefaction and cold weather will ruin their remaining muscle tissue by constant freezing and thawing during day and night, which provides some nasty effects - if you ever did that to other dead meat - you probably know

[Knoxcrest]

I don't think Shaun of the Dead is a credible source anyway...

Me thinks it is most realistic one.

We'd all like to run through the streets and hit zombies in the fucking face with cricket bats, but I'm not so sure it'll work in most parts of the world.

[Strykla]

The B-52 Stratofortress can carry dozens of the things. If you really want killing power, then get B-1B Lancers with external hardpoints.
As for getting them, well, the US military has bombs aplenty. And if zombies are on the loose, I'm sure one can convince the President to bomb zombies.

The problem in that would be now that basic civilization has fallen, the military and all it's assets are either scattered, on the run, or dead, so finding a pilot and aircraft large enough for large scale bombings would be nearly impossible.Then even if you did manage to scrap something together, without a safe place to land or refuel the aircraft would eventually have to crash.

Undoubtedly the military would be fragmented, and fuel would be a precious commodity, but the military would be very unlikely to fall apart. Military bases would be the last to fall, because they are most often well stocked, fortified, and manned. And the military wouldn't just fall to infighting, either; the solders who fought together wouldn't just randomly turn on each other. Okay, fuel is a problem, but take a base like the clichéd Area 51; It's in the middle of nowhere, so few zombies would be attracted to it; it's got a gigantic runway for the largest planes ever built, and obviously is built to last without regular shipments. Supplies would run out eventually, but with military bases able to communicate easily, they could manage fuel from at least a single base for regular bombing runs.

[Mad hatters in jeans]

Me thinks it is most realistic one.

We'd all like to run through the streets and hit bawbags in the fucking face with cricket bats, but I'm not so sure it'll work in most parts of the world.

works well enough in london

[Zathganastan]

That only counts for things that are alive.

Zombies are not.

Lawyered.

Undead = Not Dead = Alive

Zombies aren't dead, they're infected. Anyways, I'll quote my serious plan. NITPICK AT WILL!!!

Shaun of the Dead style, or go like this:

Grab all the big knives from your kitchen as soon as I'm sure the outbreak will reach me. Then I'd pack food and bottled water (I wouldn't drink any water that wasn't sealed before the oubreak as it could contain the disease), and head for the nearest gun store. An armed midnight raid to steal guns and ammo (as long as you run you'll probably get away with it as the police is preparing for a zombie invasion).

Assaulting a police station or gun store would be suicidal, the Police always set perimeters around their stations our outpost when they know they'll be attacked, if anything you'd be gunned down before you can do anything. And a gun store is usually protected by heavily armed guards so I doubt you would get far with them either.

Know I'm prepared for some action, head to the nearest port. Raid a local supermarket and grab all the long lasting foods and more water. Steal a small-medium sized motorized boat (I'll work out how to drive it quickly enough) and set course for the most isolated islands you can think of.
The chances of me pulling something like this off at the moment are probably 1/1,000,000. In a zombie apocalypse, more like 50-50. The police won't care about break-ins, security guys will most likely fuck off and go solo, most people will hand over their boat as they think they'll die anyway and an un-inhabited island can't be infected.

And that's not the case, most people would first try to hold up were ever they could people would be defending their homes and stores with armed guards and weapons wouldn't dare leave behind a stock pile of weapons.And the military would have sunk ever boat they could to stop the spread of infection.

[Knoxcrest]

We'd all like to run through the streets and hit bawbags in the fucking face with cricket bats, but I'm not so sure it'll work in most parts of the world.

works well enough in london

Not sure it'd work in reality in London.

Pretty big city.

Unless of course your melee and blunt weapons skill was all the way up.

[Zathganastan]

The problem in that would be now that basic civilization has fallen, the military and all it's assets are either scattered, on the run, or dead, so finding a pilot and aircraft large enough for large scale bombings would be nearly impossible.Then even if you did manage to scrap something together, without a safe place to land or refuel the aircraft would eventually have to crash.

Undoubtedly the military would be fragmented, and fuel would be a precious commodity, but the military would be very unlikely to fall apart. Military bases would be the last to fall, because they are most often well stocked, fortified, and manned. And the military wouldn't just fall to infighting, either; the solders who fought together wouldn't just randomly turn on each other. Okay, fuel is a problem, but take a base like the clichéd Area 51; It's in the middle of nowhere, so few zombies would be attracted to it; it's got a gigantic runway for the largest planes ever built, and obviously is built to last without regular shipments. Supplies would run out eventually, but with military bases able to communicate easily, they could manage fuel from at least a single base for regular bombing runs.

From which one though, the US is massive with no one central supply point once the nearby bases run out of supplies or are over run your forced to go farther and farther to find supplies with the trip to and from usually draining most of that and leaving little for operations.

[Strykla]

Undoubtedly the military would be fragmented, and fuel would be a precious commodity, but the military would be very unlikely to fall apart. Military bases would be the last to fall, because they are most often well stocked, fortified, and manned. And the military wouldn't just fall to infighting, either; the solders who fought together wouldn't just randomly turn on each other. Okay, fuel is a problem, but take a base like the clichéd Area 51; It's in the middle of nowhere, so few zombies would be attracted to it; it's got a gigantic runway for the largest planes ever built, and obviously is built to last without regular shipments. Supplies would run out eventually, but with military bases able to communicate easily, they could manage fuel from at least a single base for regular bombing runs.

From which one though, the US is massive with no one central supply point once the nearby bases run out of supplies or are over run your forced to go farther and farther to find supplies with the trip to and from usually draining most of that and leaving little for operations.

If there's a zombie invasion, then there will be little need for fighters, just as smaller commercial planes are being phased out now(In other words, fighter-bombers can't accomplish what dedicated bombers can do better). And offshore oil rigs can still be manned, just find people to man them. Same with oil wells. The people in the middle east may leave, but promise a man enough, and he'll do just about anything for you. So you can maintain shipments, just not as many as you used to have. And you won't have to go 'farther and farther'; We dont have to right now. For food maybe, but, as I said before, military bases are always well-stocked.

[United Warrisons]

Wow. My survival plans are so detailed and efficent that nobody feels the need to improve it.

[Viritica]

Wow. My survival plans are so detailed and efficent that nobody feels the need to improve it.

My one is the most boss one.

[Lansing (Ancient)]

I would do my best to rally my neighborhood together to conserve food and water as well as hopefully help prepare them to defend themselves.

[Zathganastan]

From which one though, the US is massive with no one central supply point once the nearby bases run out of supplies or are over run your forced to go farther and farther to find supplies with the trip to and from usually draining most of that and leaving little for operations.

If there's a zombie invasion, then there will be little need for fighters, just as smaller commercial planes are being phased out now(In other words, fighter-bombers can't accomplish what dedicated bombers can do better). And offshore oil rigs can still be manned, just find people to man them. Same with oil wells. The people in the middle east may leave, but promise a man enough, and he'll do just about anything for you. So you can maintain shipments, just not as many as you used to have. And you won't have to go 'farther and farther'; We dont have to right now. For food maybe, but, as I said before, military bases are always well-stocked.

You would still need a working port to bring in the oil and a refinery to make usable fuel, both of which would be unavailable to the military due to infection of urban areas.And flying all the way to the middle east would be a waste of men and supplies in the first place and finding someone in the middle east willing to make suicidal stands working oil rigs so the United states can countune to survive is not going to happen.

[Zathganastan]

I would do my best to rally my neighborhood together to conserve food and water as well as hopefully help prepare them to defend themselves.

Once again tiring to hold your ground against a zombie horde is a suicidal move no matter how heavily armed you are.

[Wazkyraque]

Pinch myself and wake up.

[Lansing (Ancient)]

I would do my best to rally my neighborhood together to conserve food and water as well as hopefully help prepare them to defend themselves.

Once again tiring to hold your ground against a zombie horde is a suicidal move no matter how heavily armed you are.

Being trapped in a major metropolitan area I don't think I'd have that many other choices. To attempt to flee would be more dangerous.

[Strykla]

If there's a zombie invasion, then there will be little need for fighters, just as smaller commercial planes are being phased out now(In other words, fighter-bombers can't accomplish what dedicated bombers can do better). And offshore oil rigs can still be manned, just find people to man them. Same with oil wells. The people in the middle east may leave, but promise a man enough, and he'll do just about anything for you. So you can maintain shipments, just not as many as you used to have. And you won't have to go 'farther and farther'; We dont have to right now. For food maybe, but, as I said before, military bases are always well-stocked.

You would still need a working port to bring in the oil and a refinery to make usable fuel, both of which would be unavailable to the military due to infection of urban areas.And flying all the way to the middle east would be a waste of men and supplies in the first place and finding someone in the middle east willing to make suicidal stands working oil rigs so the United states can countune to survive is not going to happen.

Firstly, ports do not necessarily have to be at urban centers. Yes, most are - But not all. And if you were serious enough, then level the city but keep a path open, and don't hit the port.

And I was not saying that you need places like Kuwait, simply that they would be useful. They can wait nonetheless.

And there's nothing suicidal about oil rigs; zombies can't climb up them, and the only real danger is the weather, which is a very real danger, of course. But people still work on them, right?

[Zathganastan]

Once again tiring to hold your ground against a zombie horde is a suicidal move no matter how heavily armed you are.

Being trapped in a major metropolitan area I don't think I'd have that many other choices. To attempt to flee would be more dangerous.

Yes but if your in a group there's a chance at least a few of you will make it compared to all of you eventually being wore down and over run.

[Lansing (Ancient)]

Being trapped in a major metropolitan area I don't think I'd have that many other choices. To attempt to flee would be more dangerous.

Yes but if your in a group there's a chance at least a few of you will make it compared to all of you eventually being wore down and over run.

I'm afraid it wouldn't be that easy. I believe it'd be safer to be hunkered down in a place you're familiar with rather than try to escape into the unknown.

[Zathganastan]

You would still need a working port to bring in the oil and a refinery to make usable fuel, both of which would be unavailable to the military due to infection of urban areas.And flying all the way to the middle east would be a waste of men and supplies in the first place and finding someone in the middle east willing to make suicidal stands working oil rigs so the United states can countune to survive is not going to happen.

Firstly, ports do not necessarily have to be at urban centers. Yes, most are - But not all. And if you were serious enough, then level the city but keep a path open, and don't hit the port.

And I was not saying that you need places like Kuwait, simply that they would be useful. They can wait nonetheless.

And there's nothing suicidal about oil rigs; zombies can't climb up them, and the only real danger is the weather, which is a very real danger, of course. But people still work on them, right?

The only ports large enough to service a freight tanker are located in urban area so the others wouldn't matter.And bombing the area won't do anything other then attract a horde to your location once your ground forces try to enter the area.And as I stated in the beginning your using more resources then you have on attempting to gain more supplies then anything.