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2014/09/25 15:04:59
Subject: .. and so it finally begins..
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5th God of Chaos! (Ho-hum)
Curb stomping in the Eye of Terror!
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 timetowaste85 wrote:*cracks knuckles* No little kids to slow me down and look after. I'm good. I've got an axe, a bow and arrows and a decent aim. I'll make due until I find a discarded shotgun and piles of ammo that just happen to include what I need. Maybe I should get 4 pistols: 2 for chest straps, 2 for the hips.
If you think kids will slow you down... you're doing it wrong.
They're your ammo reloader. 
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Live Ork, Be Ork. or D'Ork!
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2014/09/25 15:05:49
Subject: .. and so it finally begins..
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Junior Officer with Laspistol
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Well, looks like the Dakka Zombie Squad is a go. I'll get the paddle, dinghy and AK. Meet you guys at the Statue of Liberty?
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Pretre: OOOOHHHHH snap. That's like driving away from hitting a pedestrian.
Pacific:First person to Photoshop a GW store into the streets of Kabul wins the thread.
Selym: "Be true to thyself, play Chaos" - Jesus, Daemon Prince of Cegorach.
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2014/09/25 15:06:48
Subject: .. and so it finally begins..
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Kid_Kyoto
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 whembly wrote:
If you think kids will slow you down... you're doing it wrong.
They're your ammo reloader.
Heh. Ammo Runtz.
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2014/09/25 15:16:19
Subject: .. and so it finally begins..
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Exactly right. And if you have more than one, you have a back up shooter as well.
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2014/09/25 15:17:30
Subject: .. and so it finally begins..
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5th God of Chaos! (Yea'rly!)
The Great State of Texas
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 Platuan4th wrote: Hordini wrote:
If you wait until the zombie apocalypse hits to get one, you've waited too long.
That's ok, everyone knows the gun toters get eaten first.
It's their own damn fault for making so much noise, after all.
Thats just what we want you to think.
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-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
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2014/09/25 15:42:08
Subject: .. and so it finally begins..
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Battlefield Tourist
MN (Currently in WY)
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Hmm, are we sure they are zombies and not some other Undead monster?
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2014/09/25 15:48:23
Subject: .. and so it finally begins..
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Undead are undead. They all die to a blessed shovel to the head.
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2014/09/25 15:57:05
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Time to stock up on Twinkies...
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2014/09/25 16:02:34
Subject: Re:.. and so it finally begins..
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Wise Ethereal with Bodyguard
Catskills in NYS
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Hey, buying a sword will finally pay off  .
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Homosexuality is the #1 cause of gay marriage.
 kronk wrote:Every pizza is a personal sized pizza if you try hard enough and believe in yourself.
 sebster wrote:Yes, indeed. What a terrible piece of cultural imperialism it is for me to say that a country shouldn't murder its own citizens
 BaronIveagh wrote:Basically they went from a carrot and stick to a smaller carrot and flanged mace.
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2014/09/25 16:09:57
Subject: Re:.. and so it finally begins..
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Evasive Pleasureseeker
Lost in a blizzard, somewhere near Toronto
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I've already got 3.
Unfortunately, getting guns under Canadian law is more headache than it's generally worth... oh well, time to head north!
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2014/09/25 16:50:19
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[DCM]
The Main Man
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Have fun carrying all that.
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2014/09/25 16:53:25
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Never openly display a surplus of arms in any danger situation. No matter how many guns you carry, a single bullet can and most likely will kill you. By showing off your impressive armory, you make yourself a more profitable target to looters.
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2014/09/25 16:57:11
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[DCM]
The Main Man
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 Sigvatr wrote:Never openly display a surplus of arms in any danger situation. No matter how many guns you carry, a single bullet can and most likely will kill you. By showing off your impressive armory, you make yourself a more profitable target to looters.
Well, that depends. In some cases the deterrent factor of being openly armed might outweigh the chance of someone else trying to take what you've got. It's not always the best course of action, but I wouldn't go so far as to say to never do it.
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2014/09/25 16:57:22
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Androgynous Daemon Prince of Slaanesh
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I have a friend who is a cop, an ex military friend, and I'm from redneck country NY originally. Guns aren't an issue-I know people. But right now I have a heavy axe in easy reach. I've already extended my needs and should have toys in a decent amount of time.
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Reality is a nice place to visit, but I'd hate to live there.
Manchu wrote:I'm a Catholic. We eat our God.
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2014/09/25 17:04:51
Subject: .. and so it finally begins..
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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All this talk of swords and heavy axes... Have fun swinging those for days, I got my trusty waffle head clawed framing hammer. Which I actually CAN swing for days. Also whose been Boning up on their trapping and tracking skills lately! Of course come end of winter and I'll be out of practice again im sure.
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2014/09/25 17:08:28
Subject: Re:.. and so it finally begins..
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Dakka Veteran
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Ebola-chan works in mysterious ways
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"I LIEK CHOCOLATE MILK" - Batman
"It exist because it needs to. Because its not the tank the imperium deserve but the one it needs right now . So it wont complain because it can take it. Because they're not our normal tank. It is a silent guardian, a watchful protector . A leman russ!" - Ilove40k
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2014/09/25 17:10:25
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Pragmatic Primus Commanding Cult Forces
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Hordini wrote: Platuan4th wrote: Hordini wrote:
If you wait until the zombie apocalypse hits to get one, you've waited too long.
That's ok, everyone knows the gun toters get eaten first.
It's their own damn fault for making so much noise, after all.
Of all the new zombie movie/show tropes, I've always thought that one is the stupidest. It's just a way for them to make guns all but unusable for their little movie, to increase the amount of hand to hand with cricket bats and golf clubs. Anyone who's ever heard a gun fired outside knows that unless you're in the immediate vicinity, it's pretty difficult to locate the shooter by sound alone, and this difficulty only increases as distance from the shooter increases. This thing where someone fires a gun somewhere in a city and zombies come running from every direction is incredibly unrealistic. Even if they could locate the shooter via sound sound, at that distance by the time the zombies arrived the shooter would be long gone.
In my experience (gained from hunting), a single gunshot can be difficult to locate. But if it's closely followed by a second shot, you tend to get a pretty good sense of the direction. Add more shooting and it's fairly easy to make a beeline for it, as long as we're not talking about extreme ranges.
My experience is obviously in the wilderness and not in the city. Automatically Appended Next Post: Chancetragedy wrote:All this talk of swords and heavy axes... Have fun swinging those for days, I got my trusty waffle head clawed framing hammer. Which I actually CAN swing for days. Also whose been Boning up on their trapping and tracking skills lately! Of course come end of winter and I'll be out of practice again im sure.
Gamers will be among the very first to go because of ideas like these.
A crowbar is it for me.
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2014/09/25 17:11:51
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You know, "zombie apocalypse" is a really misleading phrase at least when it is used so freely as we hear nowadays. It tends to imply that zombies are the cause. Let me tell you guys, in a "zombie apocalypse" type situation, the zombies are just a symptom. The apocalypse part is going on long time before the zombies show up.
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2014/09/25 17:25:53
Subject: .. and so it finally begins..
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Dakka Veteran
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 gorgon wrote:
Chancetragedy wrote:All this talk of swords and heavy axes... Have fun swinging those for days, I got my trusty waffle head clawed framing hammer. Which I actually CAN swing for days. Also whose been Boning up on their trapping and tracking skills lately! Of course come end of winter and I'll be out of practice again im sure.
Gamers will be among the very first to go because of ideas like these.
A crowbar is it for me.
you know most crowbars weigh a lot more than most swords right?
my hand and a half weights about 4 lbs (which is on the heavier side of said weapons)
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"I LIEK CHOCOLATE MILK" - Batman
"It exist because it needs to. Because its not the tank the imperium deserve but the one it needs right now . So it wont complain because it can take it. Because they're not our normal tank. It is a silent guardian, a watchful protector . A leman russ!" - Ilove40k
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2014/09/25 17:27:36
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Quick-fingered Warlord Moderatus
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The stock prices of Shotgun and Chainsaw companies are about to go through the roof
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2014/09/25 17:29:12
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[DCM]
The Main Man
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gorgon wrote: Hordini wrote: Platuan4th wrote: Hordini wrote:
If you wait until the zombie apocalypse hits to get one, you've waited too long.
That's ok, everyone knows the gun toters get eaten first.
It's their own damn fault for making so much noise, after all.
Of all the new zombie movie/show tropes, I've always thought that one is the stupidest. It's just a way for them to make guns all but unusable for their little movie, to increase the amount of hand to hand with cricket bats and golf clubs. Anyone who's ever heard a gun fired outside knows that unless you're in the immediate vicinity, it's pretty difficult to locate the shooter by sound alone, and this difficulty only increases as distance from the shooter increases. This thing where someone fires a gun somewhere in a city and zombies come running from every direction is incredibly unrealistic. Even if they could locate the shooter via sound sound, at that distance by the time the zombies arrived the shooter would be long gone.
In my experience (gained from hunting), a single gunshot can be difficult to locate. But if it's closely followed by a second shot, you tend to get a pretty good sense of the direction. Add more shooting and it's fairly easy to make a beeline for it, as long as we're not talking about extreme ranges.
My experience is obviously in the wilderness and not in the city.
That's true, if there's continuous shooting you can move in the general direction. But it seems like in a lot of these newer zombie movies, a character will fire a few shots (usually to take out one or two zombies) and then every zombie for miles comes running to their exact spot. I can say with a pretty high degree of certainty that that wouldn't actually happen in real life.
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2014/09/25 17:31:12
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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 Ninjacommando wrote: gorgon wrote:
Chancetragedy wrote:All this talk of swords and heavy axes... Have fun swinging those for days, I got my trusty waffle head clawed framing hammer. Which I actually CAN swing for days. Also whose been Boning up on their trapping and tracking skills lately! Of course come end of winter and I'll be out of practice again im sure.
Gamers will be among the very first to go because of ideas like these.
A crowbar is it for me.
you know most crowbars weigh a lot more than most swords right?
my hand and a half weights about 4 lbs (which is on the heavier side of said weapons)
An 18" crowbar weighs like 2 lbs at most. My framing hammer is little over a pound.
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2014/09/25 17:50:10
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Posts with Authority
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I have a decent sword, but it wouldn't be my goto weapon in a zompocalypse. Slashing and stabbing are not particularly effective against an enemy without a functional circulatory system. I'd use my handy little hatchet or a nice ball peen hammer (the noblest of all hammers).
Or maybe put together one of these numbers...
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2014/09/25 17:51:26
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Hordini wrote: That's true, if there's continuous shooting you can move in the general direction. But it seems like in a lot of these newer zombie movies, a character will fire a few shots (usually to take out one or two zombies) and then every zombie for miles comes running to their exact spot. I can say with a pretty high degree of certainty that that wouldn't actually happen in real life.
Considering the attitudes most people have regarding "zombie apocalypse" scenarios, continuous shooting rather than run and gun will be fairly common in the early days, especially if people rush for the same resources all at once. My go-to is at the moment is a hand mattock. Pretty light, but sharp enough and with a good enough punch to do enough damage.
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2014/09/25 17:53:15
Subject: .. and so it finally begins..
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[DCM]
The Main Man
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Platuan4th wrote: Hordini wrote:
That's true, if there's continuous shooting you can move in the general direction. But it seems like in a lot of these newer zombie movies, a character will fire a few shots (usually to take out one or two zombies) and then every zombie for miles comes running to their exact spot. I can say with a pretty high degree of certainty that that wouldn't actually happen in real life.
Considering the attitudes most people have regarding "zombie apocalypse" scenarios, continuous shooting rather than run and gun will be fairly common in the early days, especially if people rush for the same resources all at once.
What do you mean? People trying to defend in place rather than trying to escape?
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2014/09/25 17:56:05
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Hordini wrote: Platuan4th wrote: Hordini wrote: That's true, if there's continuous shooting you can move in the general direction. But it seems like in a lot of these newer zombie movies, a character will fire a few shots (usually to take out one or two zombies) and then every zombie for miles comes running to their exact spot. I can say with a pretty high degree of certainty that that wouldn't actually happen in real life.
Considering the attitudes most people have regarding "zombie apocalypse" scenarios, continuous shooting rather than run and gun will be fairly common in the early days, especially if people rush for the same resources all at once.
What do you mean? People trying to defend in place rather than trying to escape?
That(most people I know actually have a certain place close to where they live where they'd try to hold out) and the inevitable rush for guns and other resources before they try to escape. My in-laws actually have a fairly isolated distribution center picked out to head to and thanks to the Commissary, they and we are fairly well stocked on non-perishables for such a trip.
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2014/09/25 18:11:24
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Grisly Ghost Ark Driver
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Not to burst anyones bubble but the US military will have it all sorted out before you put on your favorite zombie fighting outfit and get out the door lol.
That being said I'd finally get to see what a .50 cal and a ridiculous amount of demo can achieve.
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2014/09/25 18:15:16
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The Main Man
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 BrotherGecko wrote:Not to burst anyones bubble but the US military will have it all sorted out before you put on your favorite zombie fighting outfit and get out the door lol.
That being said I'd finally get to see what a .50 cal and a ridiculous amount of demo can achieve.
The US military is going to be able to protect everybody in every small town, big city, suburb and rural area in America? Okay. Good luck with that plan.
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2014/09/25 18:16:52
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Androgynous Daemon Prince of Slaanesh
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Besides, we all know from the various zombie movies that the military won't be enough. They'll be over run.
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Reality is a nice place to visit, but I'd hate to live there.
Manchu wrote:I'm a Catholic. We eat our God.
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2014/09/25 18:18:02
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The Main Man
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timetowaste85 wrote:Besides, we all know from the various zombie movies that the military won't be enough. They'll be over run.
It's not that they'll be overrun, it's more that they can't cover all the ground in the US all at once.
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