Zombie Apocalypse scenario: What will you do?

[WaReloaded]

Well, I just moved to the suburbs of Melbourne, so my chances are a lot slimmer than they were when I lived by the lake in regional Victoria. In regards to a skill set, I have reasonable leadership skills, but that's about it, I'm fit enough but I'm not incredibly athletic or anything like that.

My plan would be to hole up in a Foodworks (medium-ish sized store) and to block the entrances with shopping carts. I'd have enough water for a few months, I'd start by eating the perishables and then I'd try to ration the non-perishable foods. It's more about survival than "zombie slaying", here's to hoping that I have some company, too.

 

[Rumpsteak]

I'd take my minecraft sword and pickaxe replica and go to town. Those are effective on non-block zombies, right?

 

[Heronblade]

Guns in untrained hands would be useless in this situation. If I don't hit the head, what do the zombies care about bullet wounds? And by the time my ammo runs out all the zombie I just lured to my position would scuffle around the corner to have a snack.

Yes and no, it depends on the caliber of weapon and ammo used. A typical small caliber handgun is indeed useless without near perfect accuracy, since they'd just be able to shrug incidental hits off. High caliber hollow point rounds on the other hand are liable to render anything they hit physically useless, while knocking the target to the ground. If you can't reliably hit the head, aim for the lower abdomen and pelvis, its a much larger, more stationary target, and one or two solid hits there means the thing won't be able to use either leg.

As for the noise issue, you can actually use that to your advantage. Plenty of locations within an urban area can be used to physically trap and kill a small horde that think's they're following a noise to dinner if you rig them up properly. Just off the top of my head, empty and deep swimming pool plus a fifty gallon drum of fuel plus physical obstacles to funnel them in equals a really nasty burning stench you won't be able to get rid of. If you attract a big horde, you're screwed of course, but that's why I chose to stay out of even the small towns, since you can attract quite a few zeds even while remaining perfectly silent.

 

[Wintermoot]

finally get some use out of my Zombie Survival guide!
1.store water
2.move food to second floor
3.destroy the stairs
4.hang up sign,s on the roof asking for help
5.wait it out.

 

[Toaster Hunter]

Grab my E-tool and other gear and survive. I know that sounds open ended, but there is no telling what I would do. Actually, zombies aren't that big of a threat. Its my fellow survivors I'd worry about, and unless they have guns I wouldn't worry too much about them. An E-tool to the head works on anything.

 

[Aprilgold]

I have no combat, survival or weapon training.

You just need an AA12 bro. That weapon is easy to use and impossible to break.

Sure, I'll just pop down to the AA12 shop around the corner...

Funny thing is you can probably do that in the US.

lolmerica

Only if its a shop for...COMMUNISTS!

Well first I would kill their vodoo masters... Oh you mean that newer, shittier version? I'm just messin with ya'.

Simple, just go to a island that is mainly deserted near the coast of America where survival would be easy. Since Zombies have no clear rules we really can't say what else to do. But just grab a silent weapon and do a few chops off the top to get by the occasional zombie.

The amount of people saying GUNS and SWORDS is kinda scary. Guns will only get you so far, it has a ammo limit and you can only shove so many clips up the ass. Swords are better but you can't go buster swording everything unless your a professional body builder.

 

[oktalist]

I'm fully redneck, so I'm well equiped for the Zombie Apocalpyse.

I was thinking about this the other day, what would be my plan?
Rob the gun shop? Raid the school armoury?
I was thinking Windsor Castle would be a good place to hold out, defensable and all that.

And then I thought, sod it. That's too far for me to drive, I CBA. I'm going with the axe in each hand kill 'em all.

Bring the Zombies! I could do with the exercise.

...Your school has an armoury.

 

[Da Orky Man]

Realistically? I'd grab the bayonet I have in my drawer, the small first-aid kit, and pelt down to the local supermarket, which fortunately has a gun shop nearby. Only air rifles and shotguns though, few guns in the UK.

You have a bayonet in your drawer?
please explain

For reference, that piece of paper it's on is standard A4 sized.

It's a 125-year old bayonet from Chile. I picked it up at a local military fair for about £30, and I just keep it in my drawer. Hey, why not? May mount it on the wall someday.

 

[jurnag12]

WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO DO:
Grab the chainsaw from the garage, find a gun somewhere, and go on a trip across the city, looking for survivors and eventually finding some type of transport to a safe haven from the zombies.

WHAT WOULD ACTUALLY HAPPEN:
Sit in a corner and cry my heart out as I see all that I have ever known collapse around me and get back up with the single-minded intent to murder me. Suicide would probably ensue if I worked up the nerve for it, which is unlikely.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Team up with my bro in law who has army training and also a boat, gather the family and escape into the lake district/ countryside. I live in a very small city in the middle of nowhere so my chances of getting somewhere without too many people/zombies are good.

I'm usually quite good in a crisis tbh especially when there is other people to look after.

 

[ssgt splatter]

I think I'll find someone who can fly a plane, grab some shotguns...btw, why is it always shotguns are the weapons of choice during a zombie apocalypse?...grab some food for like 2 weeks, fly to Hawaii and live on Mauna Kaea, I know I misspelled that, and kill any zombies that are already up there, barricade the doors and head down only to look for more supplies and/or survivors. Also, since it is a island, there are only so many zombies there so after enough time and if you are careful, you will have a zombie free island.

 

[Heronblade]

btw, why is it always shotguns are the weapons of choice during a zombie apocalypse?

Because most bullets have about as much affect on a corpse as they would a pile of dirt, and almost all melee weapons require getting within biting reach (the ones that don't take years of training to use properly). Most guns are only as effective as they are normally because the person hit can quickly bleed to death, not really a problem for the undead, or for a living person blinded by something like the "rage virus" in that one movie.

A shotgun on the other hand is easy to use and aim, usable in close to midrange quarters, and spreads the kinetic force over a large enough area to knock the target back and down. It is also capable of pulping flesh to the point that it is physically unusable.

 

[Zen Toombs]

Survivor of three games of HvZ, two of which the humans won, here. Considering that I was able to sneak around fast zombies with full human thought capacity, and helped to develop highly effective anti-zed tactics (hint: circling the wagons and walking slowly is borderline OP when you've got guns and your opponents are melee only), I think I'd do okay as long as the guns and ammo held out. The problem is that that won't be indefinite, melee is messy (and if this is a blood born disease, seriously dangerous), and I don't exactly know how to make a longbow and arrows, nor possess the skill to hit a head sized target at range. In other words, survival depends entirely on whether the cavalry can be expected to come, or if the world has already been knocked back to the stone age.

You sir, are a champion. I salute you.

Although I will say that against smart or dumb zombies, using guns seems to be a bad idea unless it's an emergency. Guns make noise, or so I hear. If you have the strength for it, it seems like a better way would be to have a modern crossbow/bow for most kills, and a gun for others. I will also note that a Zed doesn't need to be shot in the head - a crawler isn't exactly what one would call "effective", and can be coup de grace when time allowes.

To all ya'll party poopers who say most of us wouldn't survive - true facts, but the OP was asking us a question where we assumed we WOULD survive the initial outbreak.
Some of the comments are pretty dumb though.

 

[Zen Toombs]

btw, why is it always shotguns are the weapons of choice during a zombie apocalypse?

Real life reason? They provide MASSIVE stopping power. If you shoot a zed with a shotgun, it is either DEAD or is down for the time it takes you to leave the area, and is quite possibly made into a crawler which are much easier to deal with.

Movie reason? Shotguns go BOOM!

EDIT; Quasi-ninja'd

 

[nekoali]

Honestly, if I managed to survive the first couple of weeks and it looked like there was no end to the zombies/no military force mopping them up... I would commit suicide. So, I'm not a rough and tumble outdoors chick. I don't want to spend the rest of my life just barely getting by and worrying about which was going to kill me first... Disease, psychotic and/or desperate survivors or the zeds. I would much rather go out cleanly and hopefully not to painfully than to see what would happen once a zed got me...

 

[CorruptCor3]

Any gun will just attract more zombies than it kills, so i would have to go with baseball bat and hand axes, and then get on a ferry or cruise liner, raiding coastal towns like a pirate.

 

[RanD00M]

I would do nothing other than stay alive because I live in a small town on a small island where no zombies would last because of the weather.

 

[SadisticBrownie]

You know, I might just let myself be turned. Regular life is so very boring.