[Guest]

This is a spinoff of this topic. It occurs to me that zombie attack readiness is still an underdeveloped skill, and when the dead rise, as they inevitably will (life always imitates art), many of us will get caught out. This concerns me, not because I'm worried about your welfare, but because you'll add to the hordes of living dead that I will have to blast my way through and there's only so much ammunition in the world. So if anybody has some inventive tips for zombie outbreak survival please share them here. My tip for the day is: Forget stealth, make lots of noise when entering a building. Whatever zombies are inside will immediately head towards you, and you can deal with them right away instead of having them surprise you later. As an added bonus, you won't get shot by some trigger happy survivor when you sneak in.

[Guest]

Keep a map handy with locations of ammunition and food supply locations. Gun and sports stores? Good. Supermarkets? Okay. Your fellow paranoid survivor's house? Perfect.

Also good to keep an eye out for are potential safehouses. Anything that has an "emergency lockdown" method is great for this. You can't stay there for long, but anywhere that you can actually sleep is a plus.

Oh, and zombie survival tip 1: Shotguns. Easy to aim in a paniced situation, close range weapon, which is good since the zombies are trying to bite you, and has the potential to down more than one of the attacking horde.

[Guest]

Who says the zombies are the bad guys?

Why be so worried about fighting the hoard when you could be a member?

Zombie Survival Tip #1 - See above and prepare.

Zombie Survival Tip #2 - Develop strong recruitment plan, come up with tagline, "Be all you can be as a zoommmbiiee today!" Work in progress.

[Guest]

Carry with you and do the following: Alcohol, water, peroxide, surgical tubing(about 2ft.), bandage or wrap, 2 cigarettes, 1 cigar, and a cyanide capsule. Grab black and green face paint, so you can go Rambo on them. Shoot first, ask questions later. Bring eltectronic lockpicks. Find a couple inflatable life sized dolls, blow them up and hold each one on oppisite sides of you, so when you come across a mob of zombies you can drop them as decoys while you prepare your savage assault. Grab a dart gun and poison the dart tips with a flesh eating virus, so you can return the favor whenever possible. Roll around in you fresh kills, so other zombies don't smell you before you can see them. When confronted one on one with a zombie, don't kill it right away, rather mess around with it and hone your skills, and get a feel for how they move and react. When your satisfied go ahead and rid it from your presence. Try out different finishing kills so that you don't get bored with just one or two. When surrounded by a mob, get low and plow thru them like the running back you could've been. If that fails try roundhouse kicking as many as possible. If that fails still, then you are not prepared so you might as well try and talk to them and see how far you get.

[Guest]

First I would wonder if zombies taste like chicken. I'd have to take one down and feed it to that guy down the street who always gets his mail naked when he thinks people aren't looking (we all have one of those). If he survives then you know there's a limitless supply of zombie kabob's. Rolling around in your kills is a great step, but wearing a brand new zombie skin rug may get you further before they attack. I'd probably line the street with the latest zombie fads like zompods, zomfone's etc. and when there's a huge group of them see how many I can take out with a hummer going 80.

[Guest]

Oh, and zombie survival tip 1: Shotguns. Easy to aim in a paniced situation, close range weapon, which is good since the zombies are trying to bite you, and has the potential to down more than one of the attacking horde.

How about http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4ebtj1jR7c? There's some zombie blastin' for ya!

And a solar powered chainsaw, so you don't ever run out of killing power!

[Guest]

How about http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4ebtj1jR7c? There's some zombie blastin' for ya!

This essentially wins. However, you will obviously want to carry another weapon with you. As we all know, one of the key issues in a zombiepocalypse is that materials and munitions are sparse (after all, the zombies own most of the world), so, having a ton of shotgun rounds and multiple barrel clips for that...monster is going to be a rare scenario. Crowded street full of zombies? Whip out this bad boy. Dump all your rounds into the mess, then whip out your sidearm/rifle to clean up.

[andromeda]

Start imagining how you blast your parents cause it'll come to that in the potential zombie invasion

[Guest]

Start imagining how you blast your parents cause it'll come to that in the potential zombie invasion

And small children, cause they could pose a threat by being able to bite you lower on the body.

[Guest]

How about http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4ebtj1jR7c? There's some zombie blastin' for ya!

And a solar powered chainsaw, so you don't ever run out of killing power!

That AA12 is a very wise precaution, every home should have one. In fact I would invent a zombie virus just so I had a chance to really try it out without moral qualms. You could have a lot of fun with that bad boy!

But you should not be tempted to use chainsaws on zombies. They are a very messy short range weapon and tend to get jammed with bits of bone. While you're trying to extricate your chainsaw, chances are you'll get bitten. For close quarters, I like a long handled axe. It's worth learning to do good side kicks as these can hold off zombies in a jam and are also good for freeing your axe if it gets stuck.

Here's my nomination for Most Unexpectedly Useful Household Item: A ladder. This has several benefits, enabling you to get to high places being the obvious one. Zombies are not noted for either ingenuity or climbing ability, so a high place accessible only by ladder is pretty safe. Alternatively, if you wish to make a fight of it, simply leave the ladder in place. If the zombies are capable of climbing it, this will enable you to pick them off one at a time from a strong position. Since they lack imagination and self preservation instincts, they will simply keep coming up the ladder until there's none left. But a ladder has other uses. When faced with a single zombie, you can pop a ladder over its head and manoeuver it wherever you want it to go to experiment with killing techniques. In the worst case scenario (defenses break down and zombies are swarming into the room), that ladder leaning against the wall can prove very helpful. Simply push it over so it lies across the path of the encroaching horde. A zombie's shuffling gait is totally unequipped to deal with a ladder on the floor, so they are guaranteed to trip over it and sprawl on the floor where you can conveniently brain them.

[plasmid]

If you come across any other survivors, force them to call you by name and not just say "hey, you". If you're never called by name, then you're obviously just an extra and will not be long for this world. Better yet, make sure that both your first and your last names are used at some point. Usually only the stars get such treatment, and that will vastly increase your chances of surviving.

[Guest]

If you see something in the distance that resembles human form, but can't tell if it is a zombie or human, fire a round in the leg, if it turns and starts moving slowly towards you, its probably a zombie so proceed to waste him however you wish. If it drops like a box of hammers, its probably a human, now approach it slowly to confirm human or zombie, if it is indeed a human, wrap his wound and make sure he can walk, now you have another decoy or possible bait. If he can't walk, either A) Waste him on the spot, or B) see if you can bait any nearby zombies in by calling for them. Makes me think it would be a good idea to make a zombie call. Also any humans killed by you or zombies, make sure you loot the bodies for any survival supplies. Might be a good idea to shoot anybody who becomes deaf or blind.(no offense if you are deaf or blind). Your not going to have time to have a blind person holding your hand the whole time, and probably not going to be able to throw up sign language with a shotgun in one hand and an Uzi in the other.

Edited May 23, 2009 by James8421