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Me? A combine harvester-i live near myerscough college were they have tractors combines large farming implements and double barrel shotguns with insane amounts of shells. Pick up my freinds who live localy then on to myerscough to pick up said combine and some tractors with trailers. Fortify said trailers as well as grabbing guns farming implements fuel etc..... Then on to grab more supplys from preston before heading up to fleetwood picking up other freinds on my way and finaly arriving at a freinds who lives opposite a brick factory and who has 4 double barreled shotguns and possibly a hunting rifle. Raid a military base and get a couple of tanks and APCs...... Bobs your uncle and Fannys your aunt.

Armoured vehicles require a massive amount of fuel and are frankly overkill, a civilian 4x4 with sheet steelcovering the windows is all that you would require and would be a lot more fuel efficent. Military bases would be a really bad place to go, becasue thats where everyone would go and if all the soliders have somehow been killed there would A be no ammo left and B a vast quantity of zombies wandering around. There is also the issue of maintaining military equipment, if you don't know how to look after it it will break.

Agreed with the above. Going to the military would be a terribad idea. Those ideas are ones where if you HONESTLY think about it, its a bad idea

Also to add to it, you have to remember people can be jerks. Guess what the jerks will do when they move into an empty military base? Hint, it may involve looting your corpse.

Yea thats one element that seems to go un talked about during these discussions, the survivors. Specially just after the gak hit the fan, and we are all settling in to the new world, people will probably be worse then the zombies. Either be a ghost in that world, or gang up quick

KingCracker wrote:Yea thats one element that seems to go un talked about during these discussions, the survivors. Specially just after the gak hit the fan, and we are all settling in to the new world, people will probably be worse then the zombies. Either be a ghost in that world, or gang up quick

People tend to help each other in disaster situations, this is especially true if co-operation will obviously increase the chance of survival. If resources, particularly food, are scarce then people will be more likely to look out for themselves but I would expect that banditry won't be as common as people seem to think.

Yes, but you still cannot simply assume either way. People will form groups. Their experiences, and possibly the mental stability of their leadership, will determine if they would be approachable or not.

Harden criminals...say rapist/killers...I have no problem executing. Of course we went over this on Fortress DakkaDakka thread awhile back

I was thinking a bus would be a good mode of transport. Large capacity for fellow survivors, buddies, family, squeezes, and equipment, combined with plenty of mass for grinding zombies to a fleshy pulp. Also, if needs arise you can open or smash the windows for an all round field of fire.

Or a bulldozer, because bulldozers are fething awesome.

But then everything and everyone depends on that one mode of transportation

Hmm. Good point. Still, I'd like to see azombie that can take down a bus.

What about a fleet of buses? I live up the road from a bus station + depot

KingCracker wrote:THAT argument is ended with 28days later, "zombies" People just use zombies as the general meaning of whatever zombie fits. Otherwise spot on

Except the 'zombies' don't attack each other and seem to not need food or water(unless I missed something).

In 28 days later they can die of dehydration or starvation and many animals can tell if something is diseased or not.

Corpsesarefun wrote:In 28 days later they can die of dehydration or starvation and many animals can tell if something is diseased or not.

As far as not attacking each other, my point was if they're so rage-induced, you would think them attacking one another would be an inevitability. Hell, maybe infected individuals would just loose it completely and bash their head against a wall...problem solved :p

Time to get a shotgun and katana, maybe a few grenades, to add to the bow. Getting to be a decent shot with that at head-sized targets No, I haven't shot at any heads...

The first thing that I would do would to be find two to three people that you trust the most, although if they've been eaten then I would have to go solo.

Get some sort of off road car, preferably with bull bars and get to your nearest Harry Tuffins where you can loot a variety of 'tools' that look very much like the subject of a murder trial, such as a scythe, an obscenely oversized axe, and my personal favourite, the billhook-on-a-pole. Another thing that Harry Tuffins is great for is outdoor survival equipment, so make sure to stock up.

Make sure that you have plenty of fuel for your vehicle, as running out would be dangerous. You should head north, making sure to, roughly, be near a river, for both water and to run through if you run out of fuel. It may seem odd, but if the zombies can smell you from far away then this may mask your scent for a while, but then you do have the disadvantage of being soaking wet and freezing.

As you head across the border to Scotland, make sure to pass by a mine. A map would be handy, and my reasoning for going to a mine will become clear shortly.
Mines are great sources of fuel, and so should be great places to get supplies. The main thng that you should get from here is the blast powder that they use to break chunks of wall. Get as much as possible. You will need a lot, though, so if you have already abandoned your mode of transport liberate a bigger, better one. You don't want to enter the mine alone, however, as you may get mobbed by zombies and then it's game over.

Continue north through the Grampians and head towards a town named Elgin. Around this town many whiskey distilleries are situated in small, quiet locations. It will be advisable to horde as much whiskey as possible so you can drink away your sorrows later.

Then you need to head west, towards the Isle of Skye. The Orkneys are another option, but Skye is preferable as it is closer to many arable farms which will provide food for many years to come. Now you should cross the toll bridge, making sure to smash through the barriers as there isn't really a point in paying now that the world is ruined. Find a nice house on the Island and clear the surrounding area of any locals that may have been zombified.

Take a fishing boat and your blast powder to the bridge support closest to the mainland, there are only two, so this should be easy, and pack the blasting powder around the base of the support. Take your boat away and light the fuse.
Enjoy the boom.

Seeing as I don't know how well the powder will fare against the bridge, you may have to improvise and find another way of cutting yourself off.

Fortify your house and live happily for a while.

I would make sure to inspect anybody that I allowed o travel with me for scratches and bites, however, as not to compromise myself.

That's how I'd do it, as in the winter the surrounding area would become harsh, freezing any zombies solid. After a couple of years they should have died out, so I would move to a bigger city, or at least loot it.

Not like I've thought about this before...

Oh, and don't set fire to the zombies. Then you have flaming zombies.

Actually, I work for a company that has winnebagos-we can build rams on the front and go wild. Hehe. I already told my boss we were well prepared for the apocalypse. He was amused...

Another outside the box thought on food. School cafeteria's. Why try to blow the bridge and maybe yourself up? I messed around with detcord and C4 but I'm not a expert. I avoid blowing the support itself and pack inbetween the supports at the narrowest point

My plan is this: get to 'Merica. Find fortress Dakka. Problem solved.

Actually, I'll be looking at using a baseball bat for personal defence, hopefully finding some way to the mainland, then finding some sort of civilisation/ group and hanging with them until the end. I'll probably die before I'm even off the island, but I might make it. I don't think the Isle of Wight actually has any firearms on it at all.

n0t_u wrote:A crowbar would be useful as it doubles as a tool, and would probably see more use as such.

Gordon Freeman approves.

KingCracker wrote:I keep trying to convince the wife to buy a n abandoned missile silo and turn it into our house/fortress of F.U.! but she keeps turning the idea down...........women

Really? My wife is actually quite fond of the idea...

I'm kinda surprised that nobody suggested utilizing a copy of the anarchist's cookbook, poor man's james bond, etc. Quite the plethora of useful information.

The anarchists cookbook is really not that useful when it comes to zombie invasions tbh, most of the content is outdated as it is.

TBH, even though this is england and guns aren't available in massive quantities, a military base isn't necessary for one. So long as you can rely on a car to drive you, say, 50 miles, and you know where to go, you should be able to reach a gun shop. For example, I know that about 5 miles away from my house is a gun shop that I could get to and get a gun. And as soon as you have a gun...
Need I say more?

p_gray99 wrote:TBH, even though this is england and guns aren't available in massive quantities, a military base isn't necessary for one. So long as you can rely on a car to drive you, say, 50 miles, and you know where to go, you should be able to reach a gun shop. For example, I know that about 5 miles away from my house is a gun shop that I could get to and get a gun. And as soon as you have a gun...
Need I say more?

Do you have the tools necessary to break into a gun shop readily available? Have you ever fired a gun and taken one down for maintenance?

Just saying :p

While it is true that the majority of TAC is outdated, there are still a number of useful articles on making tripwires, pressure plate switches, pipe bombs, etc. Handy things to know when trying to keep slow-walkers out of certain areas.

p_gray99 wrote:TBH, even though this is england and guns aren't available in massive quantities, a military base isn't necessary for one. So long as you can rely on a car to drive you, say, 50 miles, and you know where to go, you should be able to reach a gun shop. For example, I know that about 5 miles away from my house is a gun shop that I could get to and get a gun. And as soon as you have a gun...
Need I say more?

Gun shops are also in populated areas, exactly the type of place to avoid. The best place to get firearms are farmhouses/gamekeeper's lodges but they are unlikely to have much ammo and ho be honest they make too much noise anyway. If you don't know how to use a firearm it would be safer without one (do you know how to zero a rifle? Clean it?).

You guys could just come to my house. I have enough weaponry to arm a small military... Well maybe not quite that much.

I think it's time to also go out and get a bat and a lot of large nails, hammer them through and make a killer (pun intended) morning star. Two handed if you need to swing hard, one handed strikes from a motorcycle are possible too. These always seem to work well in zombie movies...

p_gray99 wrote:TBH, even though this is england and guns aren't available in massive quantities, a military base isn't necessary for one. So long as you can rely on a car to drive you, say, 50 miles, and you know where to go, you should be able to reach a gun shop. For example, I know that about 5 miles away from my house is a gun shop that I could get to and get a gun. And as soon as you have a gun...
Need I say more?

Riiiight. You and probably half the people that know about that gun shop. Not to mention, most gunshops are privately owned, so Im sure youd have to convince the store owner to give up his supply. Thats a really bad idea. Again, the people alone that are trying the same thing will end up causing more harm then the Zeds would

Relocate to the US...we take you walmart and get you a cheap nifty shotgun...