what weapons would you use against zombies?
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There is a certain brilliance to pit traps but...Gunner 51 said:
what happens when the pit fills up with body parts and zombies can walk across?
AA12 (automatic shotgun) if I could acquire one. Getting the experimental explosive shells for it would just be icing on the cake.
Otherwise, I'd probably use a car.
Otherwise, I'd probably use a car.
ideally a shotgun.
but since i live in scotland it would most likely be a melee weapon i would choose a shovel :
good reach and when i got the zombie onto the floor i would use the blade to severe its head
me and my friends have talked alot about what we would do if zombies arrived so we are sorted
or if we are going to be silly then a bg ass catapult thatjust keeps firing zombies for miles everytime its triggered
but since i live in scotland it would most likely be a melee weapon i would choose a shovel :
good reach and when i got the zombie onto the floor i would use the blade to severe its head
me and my friends have talked alot about what we would do if zombies arrived so we are sorted
or if we are going to be silly then a bg ass catapult thatjust keeps firing zombies for miles everytime its triggered
Does running away very fast in the opposite direction count as a weapon? Because that is what I would be doing. (Looks around my unit). I don't think I even have anything which could potentially be even used as a weapon here. I could throw something at them maybe...
As I say everytime a thread like this comes up:
1) M1 carbine
2) Pistol grip 12 gauge pump action shotgun'
3) HK USP Elite (.45 ACP)
4) Machete
1) M1 carbine
2) Pistol grip 12 gauge pump action shotgun'
3) HK USP Elite (.45 ACP)
4) Machete
Fat man
Laser gatling gun
Gatling gun
clad in a Lyon's pride powerarmor.
Geeze I need to stop playing FO3
Laser gatling gun
Gatling gun
clad in a Lyon's pride powerarmor.
Geeze I need to stop playing FO3
i would defenatly use a dead baby on the end of a chain, you know, so i could swing that baby around my head like its a wii remote in the hand of a child playing ravin rabits rayman game. i mean, look, its bloody zombie time, and who are the first to die out... babys, so why not use em, you could even tapr them together, light em on fire and chukem at undead. i mean, a molitov would be more affective but a flaming baby is funner.
Well it depends, I have to be realistic about how weapons are extremely restricted in my country so here is my priority based on likelihood of finding each one:
-Sneakers: I know, can't kill with sneakers but without a weapons the first option is to RUN away and find a weapon.
-Baseball bat or similar club: fairly plentiful and effective for how it directly attacks the brain and has some reach to it (unlike a knife) and should not spray much infected blood my way. This might go well combined with a Riot shield that would be on my back most of the time (Zombies are sneaky that way) and up front if a big threat is coming head on. So overall, Viking raider tactics.
-Double Barrel shotgun + semi auto .22 rifle: Both of these weapons are legal in the UK but HEAVILY restricted though if I can find them the double-barrel should be handy in case a zombie gets too close and if I have to navigate through an area and zombies are in the way, a semi auto .22LR can relatively easily get head-shots out to 100m especially with High-Velocity loads and the semi auto mechanism should make it much easier for aiming repeated shots.
-AK-74: The AK-74 in one form is very popular in the UK as the weapon to spite being quite cheap is remarkably accurate when fitted with decent sights, while the 5.45x39mm ammunition is cheap yet is a ballistic twin of the popular but much more expensive 5.56x45mm (the War on Terror has made 5.56x45mm ammo both expensive and rare). As a result there is a lot of 5.45x39mm ammo kicking around the UK because it is so cheap.
But the only way the AK-74 can currently exist in the UK is with the gas-tube blocked off so effectively converted to a straight pull rifle.
Now if the government in their wisdom relaxed gun laws due to the zombie apocalypse (legal disclaimer HO!) then these weapons could be converted to semi and full auto with ease. This would be the most effective weapon for it's relative accuracy and controllability under full auto fire which I have heard is superior to even the M16 or M4 assault rifles.
-SA-80: the only practical way of getting this weapon would be to join the armed forces. I suspect given the circumstances they would like to get as many men in the fight as possible and streamline the training process.
But all of this is beside the point. If you ARE fighting zombies you are doing it wrong. There are MILLIONS of zombies, there are literally more heads than there are bullets and one spray of infected blood in your eye and it's all over. (note to self, buy some decent goggles).
You should be avoiding contact at all costs and making to water. A plane would be perfect but there are technical issues which mean the best route is to get onto any sort of water craft, most humans at the best of times are poor swimmers, zombies would be equally useless and I can't imagine them mastering anything even as complex as a raft.
You're safe on the water and can make good time even with a relatively large load of supplies.
Once on water I could travel all along the coastline of the British Isles where I might be able to be picked up by a friendly Navy vessel or possibly even make a dash for the continent. Norway sounds like a good place; high gun ownership, friendly population, large open areas to stem the spread of infection.
-Sneakers: I know, can't kill with sneakers but without a weapons the first option is to RUN away and find a weapon.
-Baseball bat or similar club: fairly plentiful and effective for how it directly attacks the brain and has some reach to it (unlike a knife) and should not spray much infected blood my way. This might go well combined with a Riot shield that would be on my back most of the time (Zombies are sneaky that way) and up front if a big threat is coming head on. So overall, Viking raider tactics.
-Double Barrel shotgun + semi auto .22 rifle: Both of these weapons are legal in the UK but HEAVILY restricted though if I can find them the double-barrel should be handy in case a zombie gets too close and if I have to navigate through an area and zombies are in the way, a semi auto .22LR can relatively easily get head-shots out to 100m especially with High-Velocity loads and the semi auto mechanism should make it much easier for aiming repeated shots.
-AK-74: The AK-74 in one form is very popular in the UK as the weapon to spite being quite cheap is remarkably accurate when fitted with decent sights, while the 5.45x39mm ammunition is cheap yet is a ballistic twin of the popular but much more expensive 5.56x45mm (the War on Terror has made 5.56x45mm ammo both expensive and rare). As a result there is a lot of 5.45x39mm ammo kicking around the UK because it is so cheap.
But the only way the AK-74 can currently exist in the UK is with the gas-tube blocked off so effectively converted to a straight pull rifle.
Now if the government in their wisdom relaxed gun laws due to the zombie apocalypse (legal disclaimer HO!) then these weapons could be converted to semi and full auto with ease. This would be the most effective weapon for it's relative accuracy and controllability under full auto fire which I have heard is superior to even the M16 or M4 assault rifles.
-SA-80: the only practical way of getting this weapon would be to join the armed forces. I suspect given the circumstances they would like to get as many men in the fight as possible and streamline the training process.
But all of this is beside the point. If you ARE fighting zombies you are doing it wrong. There are MILLIONS of zombies, there are literally more heads than there are bullets and one spray of infected blood in your eye and it's all over. (note to self, buy some decent goggles).
You should be avoiding contact at all costs and making to water. A plane would be perfect but there are technical issues which mean the best route is to get onto any sort of water craft, most humans at the best of times are poor swimmers, zombies would be equally useless and I can't imagine them mastering anything even as complex as a raft.
You're safe on the water and can make good time even with a relatively large load of supplies.
Once on water I could travel all along the coastline of the British Isles where I might be able to be picked up by a friendly Navy vessel or possibly even make a dash for the continent. Norway sounds like a good place; high gun ownership, friendly population, large open areas to stem the spread of infection.
Depends the type.
True undead shamblers, for example, would be surprisingly resistant to a lot of modern means to kill each other. Not surprising as most of our killing means are based around poking holes into each other with tiny bits of lead. Seeing they are true undead, corpses without souls free will brought to life through dark magic, little holes don't see to cut it. Most can even still be a threat of you hack them to bits, but then you have to be pretty stupid to be brought down by a detached hand crawling after you like 'the thing'. For this type of zombie your going to want fire, and lots of it, as you need to destroy all the evil imbued flesh. If you had to fight one without fire then a sword would be better then a gun, afterwards you can play a decent game of rugby with a decapitated head.
Biological based zombies are even weaker then shamblers, even when they are identical in nearly every way. This is because the body is still more or less alive. Even though tehy are more resistant to damage, seeing they don't respond to pain and are oblivious to self preservation, they are still capable of being put down if you break the central nervous system or create too much blood loss for it to function. For this type of zombie I would use modern military means such as a scoped firearm, given we can kill at quite a considerable distance. After all what is better?
Standing in front of a wall of undead flesh while wielding some pussy little hammer you grabbed from the shed.
Or looking down the scope of a massive artillery piece from the next country over?
And that was just two... each generation seems to bring new sorts of zombies. Shamblers, marathon runners, bony zombies that scale walls, tanks that beat through solid walls and the list goes on and on... each one requiring a slight difference in tactics to take them down. Without more information on what I am facing all I an give is the usual generalisation answer:
I defect and join them... hey we get to eat babies! How can you say no to nommy baby meat?
True undead shamblers, for example, would be surprisingly resistant to a lot of modern means to kill each other. Not surprising as most of our killing means are based around poking holes into each other with tiny bits of lead. Seeing they are true undead, corpses without souls free will brought to life through dark magic, little holes don't see to cut it. Most can even still be a threat of you hack them to bits, but then you have to be pretty stupid to be brought down by a detached hand crawling after you like 'the thing'. For this type of zombie your going to want fire, and lots of it, as you need to destroy all the evil imbued flesh. If you had to fight one without fire then a sword would be better then a gun, afterwards you can play a decent game of rugby with a decapitated head.
Biological based zombies are even weaker then shamblers, even when they are identical in nearly every way. This is because the body is still more or less alive. Even though tehy are more resistant to damage, seeing they don't respond to pain and are oblivious to self preservation, they are still capable of being put down if you break the central nervous system or create too much blood loss for it to function. For this type of zombie I would use modern military means such as a scoped firearm, given we can kill at quite a considerable distance. After all what is better?
Standing in front of a wall of undead flesh while wielding some pussy little hammer you grabbed from the shed.
Or looking down the scope of a massive artillery piece from the next country over?
And that was just two... each generation seems to bring new sorts of zombies. Shamblers, marathon runners, bony zombies that scale walls, tanks that beat through solid walls and the list goes on and on... each one requiring a slight difference in tactics to take them down. Without more information on what I am facing all I an give is the usual generalisation answer:
I defect and join them... hey we get to eat babies! How can you say no to nommy baby meat?
My trusty cricket bat is all I need, failing that a good mace that I'll pick up from the local castle.
cmon guys, i mean, cmon...
babys!!!!!
dead babys!!!!! read my previous post, it explains it all
babys!!!!!
dead babys!!!!! read my previous post, it explains it all
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