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What IF like in the movies, a real life zombie break occurred, and like in the movies pretty much everyone dies from infection. Now IF you were one of the survivors, what would your plan be on day one?


NOW PLEASE answer this with some bit of seriousness. I dont want people saying zombies only exist on a table top or I would make the SUN my bitch and just burn them all...... tho that isnt a terrible idea. DAMMIT!...... Ok answer away. Im curios some of the ideas people can hatch.

We can call this a "JUST IN CASE THINK TANK"


ALSO MAKE A COMMENT ON THE 2 VERSIONS OF ZOMBIES. THE SLOW OLD SCHOOL TYPE, AND THE FASTER MODERN DAY CRAP MY PANTS TYPES

It depends on the type of zombie, and where you live.

As many people know, plan is to high tail it to a Bass Pro Shop or a Cabella's. Guns, food, clothes, vehicles and a veritable fortress=zombie's die en mass.

AGILE, PRESENT DAY ZOMBIES: (AFter I've gathered supplies/weapons.) Get into a tight corridor of some sort to limit their agility, and just blast them as they rush towards their doom.

SLOWER, RELENTLESS ROMERO ZOMBIES: Find a tall building after getting a sniper rifle or comp. bow and snipe them out. Rinse and repeat.

OooOO I didnt think of the 2 styles of zombies. I should refine the thread..... and there it goes


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Im thinking if it happened in your back yard. So Obviously the landscape would be a tad different form mine to yours lol.

KingCracker wrote:OooOO I didnt think of the 2 styles of zombies. I should refine the thread..... and there it goes


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Im thinking if it happened in your back yard. So Obviously the landscape would be a tad different form mine to yours lol.

Well my backyard is a decent bit of propety, nice hill, plenty of tall trees. I suppose I'd

ROMERO ZOMBIES: Grad the sledge hammer sitting in my basement before going to town on them before running up the deck to lock myslef inside and rest a little bit befoer repeating.

OH CHRIST THEY CAN JUMP? ZOMBIES: CLimb one of the several trees in my backyard and use it to jump onto my house roof and then get inside an get in the car. Then just drive as fast as possible to the nearest gun store and do my original plan of sniping.

If they're the fast zombies, I'm screwed because of an old gunshot wound in my left knee. If they're they slow kind, set a massive fire and hack my way through them with a machete.

Well the problem I have with the "lets run to the nearest gun/supply store" is... you ARNT the only one not dead yet. Those are going to be nesting grounds for insanity and eventually zombie havens while there is still fresh people to get killed.

Im an American, I have guns lol. I have a fair amount of supplies. I could wait it out at least for a little bit. Id wait till everyone is good and dead. So if its the normal slow zombies things would be totally ok for a while.

FAST ZOMBIES see these things scare me a bit. They are fast and rather aggressive. I dont like that. Granted Im a good shot and could wholly hulk smash them with some of my hand guns and such..... The whole RARRRRRR RARRR BRAINS LET ME LEAP OVER A CAR AND BACKFLIP OFF A TREE AND RUN OVER THE HEADS OF THE SLOW ZOMBIES creeps me out a bit lol


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warpcrafter wrote:If they're the fast zombies, I'm screwed because of an old gunshot wound in my left knee. If they're they slow kind, set a massive fire and hack my way through them with a machete.

This made me laugh. Immediately I saw you burning down your house for some reason and doing the whole " WELP... theres the fire, time to hack stuff" You had to be there.... in my head.

KingCracker wrote:Well the problem I have with the "lets run to the nearest gun/supply store" is... you ARNT the only one not dead yet. Those are going to be nesting grounds for insanity and eventually zombie havens while there is still fresh people to get killed.

I'd lie and say there was a National Guard patrol up the highway, hopefully they'd be stupid enough to believe me, if not,
being a cold, heartless bastard I'd murder them and take the guns.

Survival through numbness.

And if they find my out befoer I can kill em all, just balem it on insanity and run away.

I could swear I just replied to this in Deadshanes thread...however,as I never get bored with "zombie discusions".
Anywho,the basic plan is,at the first sighns of "zombie like outbreak" (and I'll have early warning as half my family works in the medical field in some capacity),we (that is my girl and our kids)load up our car with supplys (we have several cases of MREs/water + several guns and a gak load of ammo),get the hell out of our present location (10 minutes outside of Atlanta,no place to be when the zombies come),and head for my brothers girlfiends fathers "farm" (very secluded and well stocked with food,water,and wepons/ammo).and wait and see what the next course of action is.
As to the diferent types of zombies,if they are "Romeros",we should be fine,slow moving zeds are easy targets,however,if they are "sprinters"..well,we might be fethed.

DAMN that DeadShane and his fascination with the undead


Wow MREs eh? Thats a step infront of me. Tho I have a natural tendency to stock up on canned food (thanks dad) So Im decent enough there. See I live about 5 minutes from Flint MI. SO thats not a smart place to be. Buy my fathers place would be decent to hide out for awhile. Tho IF I had to. My house COULD become zombie resistant in a heart beat


Its those damn sprinters that get people in the end. Un natural. Why DAWN OF THE DEAD..... WHY?!?!

The question you need to be asking yourself, I believe, is, what if your girlfriend/wife got infected. DO you have what it takes to slot them?
Me, more or less lacking feelings for anyone, including my family, I could. I wouldn't exactly like it, but I'd do it.

@ KingCraker
My insistance on stocking up on MREs basicly comes from my having been stuck in the aftermath of Huricane Katrina,for a few weeks it was touch and go down there,and I learned the value of MREs,since then (even though I've moved to a "less huricane prone area) I refuse to not have a few cases on hand,as well as an ample amount of water and guns and ammunition.

@ Golden Eyed Scout
While it would be easy to say "oh yes I'd blast her in a minute",in honesty,it would be hard for me to turn a wepon on some one I loved.
The way I would likely make peace with it would be by rationalizing that by shooting them,I am protecting my children.
Could I do it..yes,but it would feth me up for a bit.

Scout, your obviously a teen so saying that is easy. Hell I would say it before I had my family. BUT since the world is going down the pooper in 2012 you prolly wont get that mental conditioning. Unless you get started on it early..............

Well I think that real life zombies would be infected with some weird thing that makes them go insane and they achualy think there zombies.

Thats probaly the only way zombies will ever exist, anyway my plan:

Step one: Hide out in my school or a big building.
Step two: Wait a few weeks by then hopefully alot of them would have starved to death, drive to the nearest army base or find a safe military place and start re-building the population

I really recommend you read this book:



It takes a 'serious' look into how best to prepare, equip and defend yourself against zombie pandemics. It really is a cracking read and you won't look at towns the same way after....

InyokaMadoda wrote:I really recommend you read this book:



It takes a 'serious' look into how best to prepare, equip and defend yourself against zombie pandemics. It really is a cracking read and you won't look at towns the same way after....

I realy want to but dont have any money, I'l have a look for it on the interweb tomoz.

Well, I'd like to help save as many like-minded people out there, so here is a link to it on Amazon. £6.49 from them, or from £3.60 in the new and used.

You're welcome!

InyokaMadoda wrote:Well, I'd like to help save as many like-minded people out there, so here is a link to it on Amazon. £6.49 from them, or from £3.60 in the new and used.

You're welcome!

Thanks for that, I'l be sure to use the info I get from it to save myself from zombies

My pleasure. If the info in it proves useful, and you find me in need of help, just remember I was there for you at the start of the zombie apocalpyse.....

InyokaMadoda wrote:My pleasure. If the info in it proves useful, and you find me in need of help, just remember I was there for you at the start of the zombie apocalpyse.....

Sure

Will the book be any help on invasions of killer sheep or crazy chicken invasions?

No. And let's face it, if you can't deal with some sheep and chickens, are you really the sort of person who should be saved?

InyokaMadoda wrote:No. And let's face it, if you can't deal with some sheep and chickens, are you really the sort of person who should be saved?

Thats not fair, its hard to shoot 5 chickens while there pecking your face off. Sheep are pretty big and could break your legs if they charged you, so only close combat weapons will work against chickens and only guns against sheep.

Lord-Loss wrote:

InyokaMadoda wrote:I really recommend you read this book:



It takes a 'serious' look into how best to prepare, equip and defend yourself against zombie pandemics. It really is a cracking read and you won't look at towns the same way after....

I realy want to but dont have any money, I'l have a look for it on the interweb tomoz.

You should also give "World War Z " (by the same author) a read,it's an entertaining little book acouting stories of a "Zombie war" 10 years after it's "end".
I found it to be very funny in parts,as well as interesting.

I would kill the zombies with my hatchet and bibi gun. And live off of hot pockets.

KingCracker wrote:Well the problem I have with the "lets run to the nearest gun/supply store" is... you ARNT the only one not dead yet. Those are going to be nesting grounds for insanity and eventually zombie havens while there is still fresh people to get killed.

Im an American, I have guns lol. I have a fair amount of supplies. I could wait it out at least for a little bit. Id wait till everyone is good and dead. So if its the normal slow zombies things would be totally ok for a while.

FAST ZOMBIES see these things scare me a bit. They are fast and rather aggressive. I dont like that. Granted Im a good shot and could wholly hulk smash them with some of my hand guns and such..... The whole RARRRRRR RARRR BRAINS LET ME LEAP OVER A CAR AND BACKFLIP OFF A TREE AND RUN OVER THE HEADS OF THE SLOW ZOMBIES creeps me out a bit lol


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warpcrafter wrote:If they're the fast zombies, I'm screwed because of an old gunshot wound in my left knee. If they're they slow kind, set a massive fire and hack my way through them with a machete.

This made me laugh. Immediately I saw you burning down your house for some reason and doing the whole " WELP... theres the fire, time to hack stuff" You had to be there.... in my head.

I would set it up, then wait until there were lost of them, and all the tightly packed houses and big trees would go up like a napalm strike. If that were the reality of the situation, my stuff would not be a consideration.

I would get a boat, preferably an aircraft carrier battleship.

I'd just wave a picture of Obama in front of them. They'd be so disgusted they'd turn around and leave the country. LOL.

Until such time as they get close I'll use this to pound the zombies from a distance.

http://www.army-technology.com/projects/paladin/

Nice to see some serious replies.... and as always I see some utter junk mixed in posted by ID Ten Tangos.

Some things to consider:

Hospitals, Military Bases, The Supermarket, Wallmart, Cabalas ect ect are places that you do NOT want to go near if the zombie apocalypse happens. Why you may ask, well let me tell you why.

These places are where the panicked masses, unprepared, and desperate will flock to like rats to the fabled Pied Piper during the initial outbreak thinking all their problems will be solved magically without problem. Most of these places realistically will be on lockdown (espically if the grid is down) and you will not be able to enter them freely. Doors and windows will be locked or boarded up, if the grid is down electronic locks will automatically go into lockdown mode, or the owner/staff and their families are already barricaded inside armed with the guns from the sporting goods section shooting all would be looters on sight.

Apparently Katrina taught most of you nothing...


Second...
Zombies (Fast or Slow) are predators. And what do all predators do? They follow prey. The prey in this case would be you and every other human on the planet. If a groups of people are flocking to the above places, guess whats going to happen? Zombies will pop up and im willing to be it would be sooner rather then later that this happens. Soon the above places will be nothing more then deathtraps flooded with the Infected/undead horde.

Lets face it, unless you are prepared for even a most basic disaster (stockpiled Food,water ect) you wont make it very long.. espically if you are in a high population area.

One Of My Plans:

It would be the same if the Zeds are slow or fast. Wont matter to me any.
By nature, I am what most call a survivalist. I believe in being prepared for anything mother nature or man could throw my way and being able to not only survive, but thrive.
I live in a small town atmosphere and on 15 acres of heavy timer woodland. I have access to an Aquafer and my pump is run on solar. My house has a metal roof (for forest fire protection) and concrete sideing with a full 1100 Sq Ft finished basement. I grow and can my own food (its a hobby and extra I sell off for profit) and cast/reload my own ammunition.

I currently have roughtly 10,000 rounds of loaded ammunition in several flavors and the ability to load/cast another 10,000 rounds. I also have a years supply of food in the form of MRE's (From my time in the Army) and canned food (Both store canned and home canned.) Also in the process of getting my hands on a 500g gas storage tank.. that way if gas ever drops in price again im going to fill up and not have to worry about it for awile.

I could go on but you get the idea...

So my plan is just to lock my house up... grab one of my many guns. And wait until they either starve to death or rot away to nothing while watching the world fall to pieces around me.

Afterwards, myself and my friends (Who have the same mindset as myself) will come out and start the rebuilding process.

Watch that gas can don't leak and spoil your water supply. Pretty much every gas can ever put into the ground leaks over time. Just FYI.

Ok everybody, party at JPs! I'll bring the fajitas!

Am I (and the Wife) the only ones slavering at the bit to see Zombieland (but in a low state of sobriety)?