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What was your profession (anything from farmer to outdoors-man to pickpocket) and how does it help you survive (anything from better equipment to a skill)?

Think towards more of a group survival and having to fight through it type scenario, not (the obvious real outcome) hiding in one's house or the easiest way to kill yourself

Also try to think of as many as possible. Here is what I / my group / this forum thought of so far:
1) Huntsman - Bows, Survival in harsh conditions
2) Militia - More skilled in combat than your average Joe
3) Engineer - Gun
4) Blacksmith - Make quality weapons or armor
5) Duelist - Swift and efficient
6) Lumberjack - Strong, Access to large Felling Axe
7) Town Leader - Able to keep everyone together
8) Alchemist - Access to potions and medicine
9) Priest of Morr - miracles to take down the undead with and lore about them
10) Noble - personal guard, good equipment, a riding horse, most likely knowledge of fencing
11) Battle Wizard - knowledge of Necromancy and great power
12) Coachman - a coach and horses to draw it
13) Messenger - riding skills and a fast runner
14) Barber - Surgeon, medical knowledge
15) Rat catcher - a small but vicious dog, knowledge of the sewers
16) Butcher - Knowledge of ... cleaving I suppose
17) Messanger - Speed

So like, aside from the general idea that when this happens, villagers board up their house and gak their pants? Because that's how it's always described when zombies start moving about a village.

I'd say being a Huntsman would be a decent-standing profession in such an outbreak.
-You would have the skills to move silently, and remain aware of your surroundings
-You would have the skills to kill quickly, quietly, and effectively from a distance.
-You would have the skills to keep yourself alive and kicking (Ability to bring in food, plus atleast a basic knowledge of herbs and edible plants)
-You would be able to keep a cool, calm head
-You would have an array of weaponry at your disposal (Bows, arrows, hunting knives, snares, etc.)

Town apothecary.

Pros - Can kill yourself painlessly before the zombies get you
Cons - if the zombies get to you first your screwed.

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It would be pretty hard to top a huntsman, perhaps a blacksmith if you were even semi-trained in the weapons and equipment you made.

A regular, run of the mill State Trooper.

-Spears are pokey
-Light Armor and a Shield is helpful

That's all I've got...

The town butcher with a meat cleaver. Training probably carries over pretty well.

You only think I'm a lowly villager, I'm actually the necromancer summoning the horde

Village messanger, you know the fast guy they send away to the city to get help as soon as gak happens.
No skill can top an excuse to GTFO and fast.

HoverBoy wrote:Village messanger, you know the fast guy they send away to the city to get help as soon as gak happens.
No skill can top an excuse to GTFO and fast.

The local Lahmian vampire chick would win.

Stop posting that you're the vampire or necromancer that isn't the point

Woo, outrider! Either that or give me my pitchfork!

Wizard. Anyone who doesn't know magic in a situation like this should be -terrified- of the Undead.

Priest of Morr.

The villager who is a Chaos cultist in secret and sees the zombie outbreak as a great excuse to come out of the Chaos closet so to speak, and who gets promptly devoured.

Knigth Of Morr, because frak you Zombie Il chop you to bitzs with my sword

Alchemist. May as well get high, right?

Joey wrote:Alchemist. May as well get high, right?

Far out maaan.
Which is where i'm gonna be

Man Eaters.... Lots of Man Eaters

If a man eater eats a zombie then wouldn't he turn into a zombie??

Baker
Pros - Secretly a Spartan
Cons - can only cook one type of food

No he'd get indigestion, or not ogre stomachs are tough.

You seem to be combining multi game universes here. Zombie outbreaks are because of TK (sorta) or Vamps or Necros. It's not like [insert generic zombie movie] where zombies "happen," like because someone died after eating a particularly bad brand of cheese. At least not in WHFB as far as I know.

So unless you are of value to the TK, Vamp or Necro in question, you're just going to die or run away or hide. Or you're some super baddass hero in which case mobs of zombies are no different than mobs of anything else--in fact they are easier because zombies are one of the worst units in the game. Though I haven't seen the stats for cripled children.

Blacksmith - probably will not have time to make weapons and armour (and probably will not be skilled in their use anyway) but that does not matter as you will be one of the strongest people in the village and you have a number of heavy hammers which you are very skilled at using... Plus as mentioned above you will be of use to your new evil overlords...

DukeRustfield wrote:You seem to be combining multi game universes here. Zombie outbreaks are because of TK (sorta) or Vamps or Necros. It's not like [insert generic zombie movie] where zombies "happen," like because someone died after eating a particularly bad brand of cheese. At least not in WHFB as far as I know.

So unless you are of value to the TK, Vamp or Necro in question, you're just going to die or run away or hide. Or you're some super baddass hero in which case mobs of zombies are no different than mobs of anything else--in fact they are easier because zombies are one of the worst units in the game. Though I haven't seen the stats for cripled children.

Warpstone, Geheimsnacht (spelling?), 'n' big supernatural events... Zombies have been known to get up by themselves. Sylvania had this problem before Vamps even turned up.

Or simply a budding necromancer's experiment gone wrong.