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Lets say the zombie apocalypse jumps off on your home planet, whether you are human, marine, or xeno You are a troop choice with access to any weapons, gear, bio morphs that are available to you in your codex, how you gonna roll out? lets try to exclude transports because a land raider would equal the end of any sort of zombie attack. We are looking for long term survival here, not just crushing the the moaning roamers at your front door but scavenging for supplies and helping others of your race survive. what you got?


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I think im going with a wulfen grey hunter. I will keep my distance blasting away with a bolter but if i get cornered may god have mercy on there souls.

well i have the 5th ed IG codex, and i would take power armour (its available to engineseers) a bolt pistol, a power fist, and as a long ranged weapon i would take a long las

Space Wolf Assault Marine with power armour, jetpack, lasgun and two chainswords.

I now have:
- the plot armour of the SW
- the superior strength and constitution of any Astartes
- unlimited power for the armour thanks to reactor backpack
- nigh-unlimited food supply thanks to the armour's waste recycler
- integrated apothecarium with auto-injector
- a rifle I can more or less recharge at any wall socket or at a campfire, if need be (possibly even the armour)
- dual wield chainsword for when the horde comes at me
- jetpack to get out of the horde if I'm threatened to get buried below shredded zombie remains

8)

i think that nids would be super effective against zombies since they consume all biomass therefore nothing to be reanimated by the zombie infection. Also i wonder if a marines advanced anatomy would even be in danger of being effective by a zombie infection. However as a marine I would run lightening claws all the way. turn zombies into minced meat

Kroot Shaper with Kroot Rifle. Stronger and faster than a human, with a weapon I can find or make ammo for, and the ability to devour zombies and any other organic material for sustenance.

Wait, wouldn't consumed zombie flesh mean you would turn in to a zombie? Anyway as IG, I would take carapace armor, bolt pistol, a power sword, Hotshot lasgun, and a flamer.

I don't think anyone would actually want to eat zombie matter, kroot or not it's just asking for infection. And the original poster said a TROOP choice. I'd take a carapace armored Guard veteran with a lasgun that never breaks, never runs out of bullets, and I can recharge energy cells almost anywhere

Are these shuffling zombies or super zombies? Either way I'd still be a BA Assault marine I'd never be bogged down cause I can fly away with a jumpack and have a chainsword and powerfist.

Edit-Forgot troop choice.

Phantom wrote:Wait, wouldn't consumed zombie flesh mean you would turn in to a zombie? Anyway as IG, I would take carapace armor, bolt pistol, a power sword, Hotshot lasgun, and a flamer.

I don't know if a flamer is the best idea against zombies, it could just make flaming zombies...

Be more specific on what kind of zombies.

Nicholas wrote:Are these shuffling zombies or super zombies? Either way I'd still be a BA Assault marine I'd never be bogged down cause I can fly away with a jumpack and have a chainsword and powerfist.

Edit-Forgot troop choice.

BA assault marines are troop choices so you're fine

Space Marine Scout w/ Camo-Cloak and Sniper Rifle.
I could use the CC to hide and the Rifle to quietly pick Zombies off at a range.

Brotherjulian wrote:

Nicholas wrote:Are these shuffling zombies or super zombies? Either way I'd still be a BA Assault marine I'd never be bogged down cause I can fly away with a jumpack and have a chainsword and powerfist.

Edit-Forgot troop choice.

BA assault marines are troop choices so you're fine

I had Sanguinary Guard before changed it

Really, regular old garden variety zombies are no threat at all to quite a few armies in 40k.

Jimsolo wrote:Really, regular old garden variety zombies are no threat at all to quite a few armies in 40k.

That's why he has to be specific, but even garden variety could be bad imagine if you were on a hive world then their crawling over you like ants.

There's a Zombie Army adversary type in the DH game, called "The Pale Throng" that is the result of a particularly nasty piece of here-tech, known as the Sarcossan Wave Generator. These are shuffle-zombies not to be trifled with, as they don't rely on infection. The Wave Generator causes the dead to rise, regardless of what dead that is.

Even against a Deathwatch Kill Team, a few thousand zombies are nothing to wave off.

For the OP, though.... well, I'll just go with the bog-standard Devastator Marine with a Heavy Bolter and Chainsword in the event they close to CC.

Hm......

Grey Knight Terminator armor with Nemesis weapons and all standard equipment ( including teleporter ).
What more could you possibly need?

I can break this game with just. Two. Words.

Necron. Warrior.

Brother Coa wrote:Hm......

Grey Knight Terminator armor with Nemesis weapons and all standard equipment ( including teleporter ).
What more could you possibly need?

Well the GKT is good, but this is better:

I would hop in a Blood Angels Death Company Dreadnought with Blood Talons and wipe out the zombie invasion.

I'd rush down to the haemonculi covens and sell them my finest slaves in return for a pair of wings. Then I'd load up a shredder and decimate any shamblers that dare try to assail my spire.

Truthfully, in Commoragh, survivors are more dangerous than zombies.

It surprises me that nobody considere being a Necron Warrior. Sure, you're basically a robot zombie, but you're completely invulnerable to all zombie attacks.

Edit: Oh, wait, Iur_tae_mont did.

All right people, who here have a balls of steel?

Who will take Guardsman with Lasgun?

I will! Wait for me to edit this post so I can write my loadout.

Imperial Guard Veteran
Caparace Armor
Lasgun (same strenght of a shotgun but with more accuracy; also the power cells can be recharged with sunlight)
Sniper Rifle (uses the same ammo for the lasgun)
Catachan Fang (chainswords are too noisy and messy for fighting zombies)
Camo-Cloak
Snare Mines
Frag Grenades
Krak Grenades
Melta Bombs
Demolition Charge

Belexar wrote:I will! Wait for me to edit this post so I can write my loadout.

Imperial Guard Veteran
Caparace Armor
Lasgun (same strenght of a shotgun but with more accuracy; also the power cells can be recharged with sunlight)
Sniper Rifle (uses the same ammo for the lasgun)
Catachan Fang (chainswords are too noisy and messy for fighting zombies)
Camo-Cloak
Snare Mines
Frag Grenades
Krak Grenades
Melta Bombs
Demolition Charge

I got ya several posts back

Belexar wrote:Caparace Armor, Lasgun, Sniper Rifle, Catachan Fang, Camo-Cloak, Snare Mines, Frag Grenades, Krak Grenades, Melta Bombs, Demolition Charge

That loadout reminds me of Inquisitor Obiwan Sherlock Clousseau.

Wolf Guard Terminator, CML, Twin Lighting Claws.
GOT MILK MOTHERFETHERS

Thousand Sons Aspiring Sorcerer
Bolt Pistol with Inferno Bolts
Force Weapon
+3/+4 invul save
Gift of Chaos
Personal Icon

1. I can shoot them with the best bolt weapon availble.
2. Force Weapon for CC
3. Gift can turn zombies into Chaos Spawn that serve ME.
4. Personal Icon to get me some daemon buddies to help out.

Space Marine Biker with flamer
can't hit something that is constantly moving

Space Marine Devastator with heavy bolter. Can't eat what you can't reach!

as far as types of zombies we'll go with a hybrid of the "28 days later" fast and relentless combined with the intelligence of "army of darkness" style zombies. Something the war torn factions of 40k will actually have to pay attention to...