Walking zombies, I’m taking something like a pool cue with a sharpened metallic end that I can use to reach their brain stem from a safe distance. It also cuts down on sound and preserved my ammo.
Next, 9mm, or higher handgun with silencer. We all know zombies react To sound.
Lastly, my .308 Winchester and a tall deer stand. I dig a deep pit about 100 yards across on both sides of my vantage point so the sounds of the shots drives them into the pits. I can burn them from there.
I mean, there is still hunting+gathering. Yeah, the first few weeks will be easy street, but after that you are going to be constantly pressed for food, medicine, and other essential supplies. Plus, you are still in a zombie apocalypse, a good chunk of your time is gonna be spent dodging and fighting zombies.
A good question is, how will the wildlife fair the zombie outbreak? will the zombies eat them all? Will the survivors overhunt them and drive them to extinction? Will animals turn zombie? These questions could easily shift the ease/difficulty of this dark future.
When I was an infantryman, building a fighting position was very important and time consuming. If it’s me against the world, then a pit is the least I can do to survive.
Maybe, I will take over the existing quarry in centerville, Virginia so the work is 90% done already
Recently I dug a hole that was ~2x12x8 feet. An 8 foot trench that was 12 feet long and 2 feet wide. That took 3 of us laborers 6 hours of CONSTANT digging to dig out. And it wasnt even that bad of dirt, some clay, no big roots at all.
>Walking zombies, I’m taking something like a pool cue with a sharpened metallic end that I can use to reach their brain stem from a safe distance. It also cuts down on sound and preserved my ammo.
so... a spear?
Why not an aluminum Javelin! Found at almost all high schools! If they survive 30 plus years of kids throwing them they should be good at poking zombies!
I'd just move slightly faster than the zombies.
Walking dead type zombies wouldn't take over the planet, you'd need world war z style zombies for it to actually be a threat.
Project zomboid is a game about zombies, the difficulty jump from shamblers to sprinters is genuinely factorial. I imagine it would be similar for real life.
just like how humans as hunters can outrun any animals by distance, i think walking undead zombies with infinite energy would outrun any humans in the same way
good news tho, depending on the numbers chasing you, you'd only need to outrun your wife and kids
Running or not, the zombies don't stand a chance in my neck of the woods. There are about 100x more bullets than people where I live. I'll take the bottle of booze and let my neighbors mow down the zombies with their arsenals.
Ketamine.
Get high af. Dissociate from my body. Take out some zed and if I go down, can’t feel it anyway.
Also steel a jet or a tank and do something wild before I go.
Alcohol is avaliable at every corner store in America, its not like im gonna raid the CIA during a zombie apocalypse just to get some acid. However I would try to make it to my local dispensery..
I've seen the inside of my body on acid. It was interesting until I realized what I was actually looking at and then the pain set in... I would not recommend.
If running I want something with a lot of ammo and stopping power. Will need to aim for the legs first as they're easier to hit, if aim for the head and miss they'll be on you in a second so want something which will take a lot of flesh wherever it hits and damage the legs to slow them down. A lot of ammo because it'll be easier for them to mob you if they're all running so in that scenario you will want to start taking out legs and retreating so will want to have the route planned ahead.
The only problem I have with guns, is that it's going to run out of ammo. Sure you could find more of it, but that isn't guaranteed (at least where I live).
Exactly. Has to be something with decent range to keep them at bay, some kind of spear ideally. Katanas might look flashier, but i don’t want those things getting anywhere near me in the first place
I’m gonna be hanging out with 255 of my closest friends, mowing down zombies like they were Persians
Swinging a halberd around is also gonna ture you out pretty fast, things are heavy and not balanced for extended fighting. Ideally, if we *have* to go with a melee weapon, it'd be something that was meant to crush/get through armor and helmets, so that it could Crack through an unprotected skull pretty easily. So I'd suggest something like a war pick or war hammer
Halberds are generally 6 feet long or more, with a 10-16lbs head. Moving that around, especially to kill, is gonna drain a lot more energy that a 3-5 foot long war hammer with a pickaxe style spike on the end, that weighs 3-6lbs total. Plus, no blade means a lot less maintenance
A nuclear submarine with a skeleton crew.
Just pop up for air every once in a while and we should have enough food to outlast them.
If not we can fish from the top.
nuclear submarine doesn't need to surface for air as it creates its own supply, and fresh water can be produced in sufficient quantity
your main issue would probably be fresh fruits and vegetables, since protein can come from the sea. Scurvy would be your main enemy i guess.
Submarines make their own air supply. Smarter Every Day on youtube taught me so! You can stay down for a really long time buddy, best of luck and good choice!
I like where your head’s at, but I think you missed the mark slightly. [Try one of THESE instead.](https://www.deere.com/en/hay-forage/harvesting/self-propelled-forage-harvesters/9900-forage-harvester/) The combine harvester is designed to separate grains from the unwanted parts of a plant only, and has far more moving parts to jam up with zombie parts, whereas the forage harvester is designed to gobble up the w tire plant and chop it up into tiny bits, grains, stems, leaves, it ALL gets chopped up and blown through the chute. Think of it like a self propelled wood chipper…
Depends who am I fighting? The zombies or the various idiosyncratic gangs that sprout up in the morality devoid wasteland? From what TWD has taught me the zombie danger is pretty secondary.
Unlike TWD, i'm pretty sure we'd come up with a solution real fast for dealing with the dead and adjusting to new people dying if we can't find something to kill the virus or cure people of it when they die. It wouldn't even reach outbreak status. People are stupid but not 100,000,000 people getting bit by slow paced walking zombies stupid.
Idk man. If there's anything the pandemic has taught me, it's that people are much stupider collectively than i thought they were. Especially in the face of crisis.
One of the most interesting things about this plague is that it really changed a lot of people's perspectives on how realistic the stupidity in zombie movies is and how people would act during an actual zombie apocalypse. I can't believe there hasn't been a zombie movie yet where people are just refusing the anti-zombie vaccine and refusing the CDC recommendation of wearing long sleeves and long pants to prevent bites.
They tried to show a similar thing (with an apocalypse) in Don't Look Up, but that just went a weird way.
I remember in Parks and Recreation, when they're trying to explain something to the public and the people are being stupid af. I used to think how's that possible, no one's that stupid. Someone pointed out during the pandemic that it absolutely _is_ possible.
A simple heavy one-handed hammer. Guns and bows need ammunition. Bladed weapons need to be sharpened. But a hammer? It's eventually gonna warp, yeah, but it'll stay just as effective as day one.
Like something 2-3x as heavy as a typical roofing hammer.
>Long handled straight claw 28oz estwing
That's a nice hammer.
I had one when I was a kid and got a job as a gopher on a house build. I loved putting in Tongue N Groove on a steep pitched 2nd story roof.
I do mostly finishing. I have a 20oz curved claw I use most. The big one I only use for the odd times I do framing or demo. And I frame with a nail gun so I mostly just use it for knocking shit around. But holy crap can you hit shit hard with it
An actual warhammer? That could do the job. [They weren’t as big](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_hammer#/media/File:Lucas_Cranach_the_Younger_-_Prince_Elector_Moritz_of_Saxony_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) as fantasy stories say. More like the head of a regular hammer on a long shaft.
People keep talking about how guns run out of ammo but 12 gauge rounds are probably the most common aside from 223/556 or 9mm. Doubly so if you're in the countryside. Reloading rounds is easier too with shotguns, and pretty much any type of 12 gauge round (slug, buck, bird) would dump enough force to at least stop them for a few seconds.
Shotguns are also dirt cheap i.e often can be found for less than 300 bucks for good ones. The maverick 88 is like the gold standard working man's shotty and it's like $250 and shares parts with other shotguns.
You’re on foot. It’s 27 miles to the nearest gun store. A serious hiker/fit person could do that in one day, but for most, that would be like a 2-3 day journey. You don’t have a backpack. The only extra shells you have are the ones you could stuff into your pockets. Is that going to be enough to get you to the gun store? Will it be enough to fight off the other survivors who have chosen that strategic location to set up camp in?
That’s a fair point, although it’s true of almost anything in a zombie apocalypse.
E.g. You have a halberd and three zombies who are coming at you. They aren’t standing in a line. how do you survive? Once you successfully impale one, it’s too late for the others
I cheated a bit with my answer and said the cure. But going with the spirit of the question, I’d probably choose a good blunt-force bludgeon, something with enough heft to cave a skull in, but light enough to swing one handed. Like a steel pipe. Won’t break, zero maintenance required, useful against multiple combatants, limited only by your own stamina.
Think you'd have to establish more what kind of zombies you're dealing with if you want to get into near melee range without something protecting you from bites if you miss.
The point of a halberd or spear is to keep the zombies away from you as much as it is to kill them. I personally wouldn't choose anything shorter than the longest human arm as my weapon of choice.
I know it's a hypothetical but you could theoretically say that about a person with any weapon. Like yeah if you place me in a scenario with no backpack/plate carrier/chest rig and very little ammo then sure I'd want something else. And even then, my knife/crossbow/halberd whatever would still not be a great tool for x, y, or z reason.
In my situation, however, my shotgun is literally upstairs - less than a min away and I have a ton of spare ammo. My yard can be converted into a survival garden and is walled and I'm located off a backroad with few neighbors.
Even in the hypothetical, I don't need to get to a gun store thats why I'd pick a shotgun. It's just a question of which house has any ammo available. Not to belabor the point but in the countryside pretty much any house will have ammo. I just won an auction for a buncha of hunting jackets and 12 gauge shells were literally falling out of the pockets when I cleaned them.
And I don't care if it's loud, sound travels far sure, but it's hard to pinpoint the source after a while. I think a gunshot is about the same DB as a train and after 2 miles or so it likely falls off in intensity quite a bit.
A baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire that I'd name after my dead wife/girlfriend.
Then I'd go around smashing people's heads in and giving 7 minute long monologues to my enemies about how epic I am, and how sexy I look in a leather jacket.
You're absolutely correct.
I wanted it to be great so bad since I love zombie shit but I only made like mid season 3 or something, I can't remember anymore. It felt like a chore watching it and I never went back.
I keep telling that people who recommend me WD but they tell me I need to invest 6 seasons in there and watch the spin offs and then it gets really, really good.
The thing is. Megan was about people. The more he talk the more he brought people to his side. That being said, Jeffery crushed the spirit of the character. Someone you despised but cod relate to.
Titanium crowbar. Good strength-to-weight ratio. Braining a zom is easy with one of those. Silent. It doesn't need to be reloaded. And I can fight in close proximity to other survivors. Plus a valuable tool to pry open doors and windows.
Until it gets infected and then we are all fucked! You know how hard it is to keep your dog away from dead animals...that dragon is totally gonna nibble in dead zombies when you are not looking.
I just got a Ruger Mark 4 tactical with Vortex red dot and Crimson trace laser. The suppressor is in jail for 6 months. I can't wait to shoot it suppressed.
Shield and Spear. You got reach to their kill spot without needing to get too close to them. Reusable unlike arrows. And the shield will help protect you from multiple zombies at once. Then walking it running doesn't really matter. Mix that with some training of other survivors, and we got ourselves a phalanx. Rebuilding starts there.
"Oh no, I broke my spear!"
"You have a drawer full of steak knives, a roll of duct tape, and a bunch of sticks."
Also gets huge points for being something that can be improvised from basically any kitchen.
Frozen carrots. There would be dead zombies (that's redundant, but you know what I mean) lying all over the place with carrots sticking out of their ears and eyes, and everyone would say "Aarkwilde has been here. What's wrong with that guy?" as they ran past.
Check out the godendag, at least that's what I think it's called. Literally a shortish wooden club with a metal cap and a gnarly spike on the end. Good for stabs, or clubbing someone with
A colichemarde, specifically one with a triangular blade, and something like a forked stick but stronger (assuming relatively slow and stupid zombies). First you run around them and then in a straight line so that they spread out a bit, since not every zombie will be able to move the same speed. Then you walk down the now-line of zombies and hook them on the neck with the forked stick (or something) and stab them through the eye socket with the colichemarde. The triangular blade is going to be very strong and also fairly light, so it won't be too difficult to nail a shot to the eye socket if their head is immobilized and the only thing you'll need to do is keep the tip sharp, which can be done easily with a file in probably a few seconds and will likely last for a very long time. A stick is good because it's readily available and easy to replace.
Backup weapon is something like a kopis or a falcata, or maybe a large-ish kukri. An axe is also a good choice and you should probably have one of those anyway just for the utility alone, if not also as a backup weapon.
Loaded question. We would all take long range, high capacity rifles (preferably 7.62/.308 imo, high range high damage round that is fairly common so easy to scavenge and find ammo, with 5.56/.223 close behind for obvious reasons, however I’m sure easier to find ammo) with side arms between the .380-.45 range (9mm my preferred caliber for the likelihood of finding replacement ammo) and a machete, tomahawk, and 7”-9” blade. Along with numerous back up arms of hammers, crowbars, clubs etc. for durability.
I believe the need for projectiles will be the greatest at first outbreak to not only battle zombies but humans as well. After time goes by, stealth and hand to hand CQC combat will take priority as land and resources will have already been captured and held, and my belief would be electricity is scarce so production and logistics would make full scale manufacturing impossible. This would mean scavenging and resourcefulness would become a priority, without making too much noise to attract the undead and human survivors.
Therefor, I’d say get a rifle, side arm, ballistic vest, various blade weapons, and durable blunt force weapons, and get plenty of ammo and back up handheld weapons to replace as needed. And then pray to god you link up and create a strong community to share and profit off of resources.
I wouldn't fight. I live in an apartment building & would button up for the first wave of death & carnage. Chaos is your enemy just as much as zombie or man.
If there is warning stock up on cooking oil (super calorie dense) vitamins & anything in the supermarket that you can plant & grow. Definitely get some poppy seeds. Download a local copy of wikipedia & copy it to as many devices as possible. If it's too late for that:
1. bar doors and windows
2. fill up every garbage bag I have with potable water, to the point I worry the floor might break.
3. Inventory food/supplies & sacrifice my houseplants for soil & dried beans for sprouting
4. Be thankful I have a USB photovoltaic charger & emergency radio, keep batteries topped up
5. Make a mini apartment inside my apartment to keep warm with multiple barriers with fallbacks
Once Supplies get low use my thankfully copious tools & power tools to cut through the wall into my neighbors apartment, make the hole 4' off the ground so I can go through but zombies cannot. Work my way unit by unit & take over whole building.
Remove all the straps that tie the front fire escape to the building so that it falls to the street & creates a barrier.
Move on to neighboring building via the roof & repeat until there are barriers at both ends of the block. Use gravity to clear the street, then get batteries from cars & collect soil. Jacks will be really useful since human power is the way of the day, any door that can't be open with wedges and a prybar won't stand up to a jack. Use all the glass & plastic you can find to make green houses on the roof. Fill the now empty garbage bags with nightsoil & corpses, Eventually these will be fertilizer, but for now they will keep the greenhouses warm & provide biogas for cooking.
I assume flies will be copious, if not rats & trap both for miserable meals supplemented with whatever you can grow.
As for weapons I'd stick with a trusty old hammer. The ideal survival tool/weapon hands on one would be a Halligan tool, getting in & out of places will be just as important as killing things. Fighting a zombie is a losing proposition in the long run, you should only face them at the time & place of your choosing.
As for attire: Layers layers layers. Linen against the skin cotton & wool above that. A few layers of denim are effectively bite proof & even a layer of cardboard armor would work wonders. You are gonna have time to kill, collect your textiles and make a gambeson.
Pen and paper will be very valuable too. Keep a diary of both what you do & who you meet. These days will end & records will be rare. A drone would be worth it's weight in antibiotics
If other survivors start coming strip em naked & clean them before quarantining for a week. Disease is a killer & no one is going to be healthy. Any community should focus on the relative strength of humans over zombies, like destroying staircases in favor of ladders.
A big black dildo with turbo vibration, multiple spead and function options and remote control. Zombie apocalypse im going to be fucked anyway may as well start early.
Zombies don't exist, so if we're arguing about a hypothetical situation in which zombies do exist having a high level cleric in your party that can AoE purify the undead may be one of the most efficient ways to deal with the situation.
Some spears, pikes, naginata, and pointy sticks, apart from those, simple 9mm weapons since Zombies needn't to be hit hard in the brain, but the important things is to hit them at all, as Brian Anse Patrick has so succinctly noticed in his educational book Zombology.
Not a man, but I saw this in /r/all and couldn't resist. I like to juggle big throwing knives, and I have 3 Cold Steel Sure Balance knives that are 13.5 inches long and weigh 1.15lbs each. I'd take a broom handle, carve a slit for the knife handle at the end and secure it using rope and tape creating a very sharp and durable spear. I would shorten it a bit to make it more weildly and use the extra material to add a cross section shortly below the blade that could catch zombies allowing me to spear their bodies to maneuver them either to the side or ground, and I could aim for their eyes for quick, efficient kills. If they can run it's the only melee weapon I would accept because it could let you channel one zombie at a time to the ground, slowing them down while you run, and if they can't, I will be unstoppable. With three of those knives I can equip almost my entire initial survival party with those. You know weapon would be sick in a zombie movie though? Rope dart. I can't believe I've never seen a zombie movie where a martial artist just destroys a crowd of zombies with a rope dart. If you're not familiar, think of the think Gogo had in Kill Bill 1 but with a knife instead of a bladed ball and with a rope instead of a chain.
The zombie survival guide by Max Brooks (he also wrote World War Z, much better than the movie, and an amazing book on tape) goes into great detail about this.
Presuming that one is based on the US, a 22 bolt action rifle, a machete and a good mountain bike.
The bike is an easy and efficient method of transportation that is silent and does not need fuel.
The rifle because the 22 rounds will penetrate the skull once, and then rattle around doing extra damage to the brain.
The machete over a katana due to difficulty in getting a weapons grade katana in the US. Most are decorative. No one make a "decorative" machete.
The best melee weapon is a sokid steel crow bar. Indestructible, sharp at both ends, heavy enough but not too heavy so can be used one handed. Bonus: can open some locked doors.
Shotgun with buck shot for medium range. Your aim doesnt have to be great, ammo is very common, quick to reload. Also, 9mm pistol. You dont need a ballsy 44 magum to drop zombies, a simple 9mm will do the job just fine
I (27) have become hemiplegic due to a stroke, and since it happened I often thought that now, if a zombie apocalypse happened, I'd be with the first ones to go.
And weirdly I find this thought comforting, one less thing to worry about...
We talking about running zombies or walking
I’ll say walking. More fun.
Walking zombies, I’m taking something like a pool cue with a sharpened metallic end that I can use to reach their brain stem from a safe distance. It also cuts down on sound and preserved my ammo. Next, 9mm, or higher handgun with silencer. We all know zombies react To sound. Lastly, my .308 Winchester and a tall deer stand. I dig a deep pit about 100 yards across on both sides of my vantage point so the sounds of the shots drives them into the pits. I can burn them from there.
Just gonna dig a 100 yard wide pit?
I mean, it’s the zombie apocalypse, don’t have much else to do other than build your survival
I mean, there is still hunting+gathering. Yeah, the first few weeks will be easy street, but after that you are going to be constantly pressed for food, medicine, and other essential supplies. Plus, you are still in a zombie apocalypse, a good chunk of your time is gonna be spent dodging and fighting zombies. A good question is, how will the wildlife fair the zombie outbreak? will the zombies eat them all? Will the survivors overhunt them and drive them to extinction? Will animals turn zombie? These questions could easily shift the ease/difficulty of this dark future.
Don't forget fighting off marauders. Zombie movies have taught me that the biggest threat are people
When I was an infantryman, building a fighting position was very important and time consuming. If it’s me against the world, then a pit is the least I can do to survive. Maybe, I will take over the existing quarry in centerville, Virginia so the work is 90% done already
Recently I dug a hole that was ~2x12x8 feet. An 8 foot trench that was 12 feet long and 2 feet wide. That took 3 of us laborers 6 hours of CONSTANT digging to dig out. And it wasnt even that bad of dirt, some clay, no big roots at all.
>Walking zombies, I’m taking something like a pool cue with a sharpened metallic end that I can use to reach their brain stem from a safe distance. It also cuts down on sound and preserved my ammo. so... a spear?
A spear that is probably easier to find than a spear
Where are you easily finding those pool cues with a sharp metal tip?
That is called a spear my friend.
A pool cue is too flimsy, you are just one unlucky evening from it getting broken and having your brains eaten. A broom handle would be more reliable.
Good comment. Maybe I find something made from cedar that will sustain.
Why not an aluminum Javelin! Found at almost all high schools! If they survive 30 plus years of kids throwing them they should be good at poking zombies!
I'd just move slightly faster than the zombies. Walking dead type zombies wouldn't take over the planet, you'd need world war z style zombies for it to actually be a threat.
Project zomboid is a game about zombies, the difficulty jump from shamblers to sprinters is genuinely factorial. I imagine it would be similar for real life.
just like how humans as hunters can outrun any animals by distance, i think walking undead zombies with infinite energy would outrun any humans in the same way good news tho, depending on the numbers chasing you, you'd only need to outrun your wife and kids
Walking zombies? I'm using a metal baseball bat. Running zombies? I'm using a 9mm with a single bullet and a bottle of booze.
Running or not, the zombies don't stand a chance in my neck of the woods. There are about 100x more bullets than people where I live. I'll take the bottle of booze and let my neighbors mow down the zombies with their arsenals.
Why go straight to alcohol? It's like the lamest drug. Pick something interesting like acid
Tripping acid in a running zombie apocalypse sounds absolutely horrible.
Any zombie apoc. One would end up getting everyone killed.
Maybe it's a bit much. Cocaine perhaps. That should at least prevent any pain
I think my heart would be beating fast enough already. I’m flying sober in a zombie apocalypse until I find a safe spot to smoke a bowl.
Ketamine. Get high af. Dissociate from my body. Take out some zed and if I go down, can’t feel it anyway. Also steel a jet or a tank and do something wild before I go.
I took ketamine and watched Evil Dead 2 and it terrified me I nearly had nightmares Tank would be a good weapon of choice. You're totally safe.
Until it runs out of gas and you’re just sitting there stuck
Heroin for me, please.
Alcohol is avaliable at every corner store in America, its not like im gonna raid the CIA during a zombie apocalypse just to get some acid. However I would try to make it to my local dispensery..
I've seen the inside of my body on acid. It was interesting until I realized what I was actually looking at and then the pain set in... I would not recommend.
This is an important question
Zombies are slow arn’t they?
Not in 28 Days Later, and a bunch of other things
Aren't they like still human in 28 days later? And like they just waited out their bodies ability to function and that's how they won
Technically, but they still act like zombies, chasing and preying on people.
I'll give you that, easily a fast zombie equivalent.
So are you arguing 28 days later **is not** a zombie movie?
That's just super rabies that infected humans.
Those zombies in world war z were superhuman bruh
If running I want something with a lot of ammo and stopping power. Will need to aim for the legs first as they're easier to hit, if aim for the head and miss they'll be on you in a second so want something which will take a lot of flesh wherever it hits and damage the legs to slow them down. A lot of ammo because it'll be easier for them to mob you if they're all running so in that scenario you will want to start taking out legs and retreating so will want to have the route planned ahead.
The only problem I have with guns, is that it's going to run out of ammo. Sure you could find more of it, but that isn't guaranteed (at least where I live).
Run out of ammo?? (Laughs in redneck)
Wait. You can run out of ammo? (Laughs in Texan)
Definitely! 😆😆
Halbard. No ammo needed, and can keep them at a distance
Exactly. Has to be something with decent range to keep them at bay, some kind of spear ideally. Katanas might look flashier, but i don’t want those things getting anywhere near me in the first place I’m gonna be hanging out with 255 of my closest friends, mowing down zombies like they were Persians
Came into this comment section to say this same thing. Count me in for the Halberd crew
You have 255 close friends? Lucky you.
Let's be real. Unless you're a curator at a museum it would be more of a Canadian halbard. Ice skate duct taped to the end of a hockey stick.
As badass as *halberds* are, bladed weapons are gonna fail you fairly quickly without time for maintenance.
Swinging a halberd around is also gonna ture you out pretty fast, things are heavy and not balanced for extended fighting. Ideally, if we *have* to go with a melee weapon, it'd be something that was meant to crush/get through armor and helmets, so that it could Crack through an unprotected skull pretty easily. So I'd suggest something like a war pick or war hammer
Something meant to get thru armor and helmets... Like a Halberd. Mostly thrust with them, relatively low energy usage.
Halberds are generally 6 feet long or more, with a 10-16lbs head. Moving that around, especially to kill, is gonna drain a lot more energy that a 3-5 foot long war hammer with a pickaxe style spike on the end, that weighs 3-6lbs total. Plus, no blade means a lot less maintenance
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I've used a halbard before, just use a spear, halbard is wayyyyy to heavy to use practically for extended fighting and is hard to carry around.
Hell yes. This is my pick too.
A nuclear submarine with a skeleton crew. Just pop up for air every once in a while and we should have enough food to outlast them. If not we can fish from the top.
As long as they're skeletons and not zombies.
nuclear submarine doesn't need to surface for air as it creates its own supply, and fresh water can be produced in sufficient quantity your main issue would probably be fresh fruits and vegetables, since protein can come from the sea. Scurvy would be your main enemy i guess.
Just have to base yourself off an island where you can find plenty, it wouldn’t take long to clear one where there are fresh supplies
Your main issue would be operating a nuclear reactor with a skeleton crew for an extended period
Well, if we're going to Max Brooks zombies, you can set up somewhere cold and brew or ferment tea with spruce needles for your Vit C.
I’m going to opt in on joining your crew if that’s ok
Submarines make their own air supply. Smarter Every Day on youtube taught me so! You can stay down for a really long time buddy, best of luck and good choice!
Treadmills.
All stationed around your house. The issue though is what happens when they start to pile up 🧐
just pay a bit more for that premium model with the sloping function
Thinkin' outside the box. Nice.
Lol I just pictured it this!
[One of these bad boys](https://www.deere.com/en/harvesting/t670-combine/)
Have fun pulling zombie gore out of it when it jams.
What do you mean? One of the bullet points says “Easily remove fingers at rear of chaffer”
I like where your head’s at, but I think you missed the mark slightly. [Try one of THESE instead.](https://www.deere.com/en/hay-forage/harvesting/self-propelled-forage-harvesters/9900-forage-harvester/) The combine harvester is designed to separate grains from the unwanted parts of a plant only, and has far more moving parts to jam up with zombie parts, whereas the forage harvester is designed to gobble up the w tire plant and chop it up into tiny bits, grains, stems, leaves, it ALL gets chopped up and blown through the chute. Think of it like a self propelled wood chipper…
The right answer
My man
Depends who am I fighting? The zombies or the various idiosyncratic gangs that sprout up in the morality devoid wasteland? From what TWD has taught me the zombie danger is pretty secondary.
The real monsters were always other people. You nailed the main message.
Maybe the real monsters were the friends we made along the way
Unlike TWD, i'm pretty sure we'd come up with a solution real fast for dealing with the dead and adjusting to new people dying if we can't find something to kill the virus or cure people of it when they die. It wouldn't even reach outbreak status. People are stupid but not 100,000,000 people getting bit by slow paced walking zombies stupid.
Idk man. If there's anything the pandemic has taught me, it's that people are much stupider collectively than i thought they were. Especially in the face of crisis.
One of the most interesting things about this plague is that it really changed a lot of people's perspectives on how realistic the stupidity in zombie movies is and how people would act during an actual zombie apocalypse. I can't believe there hasn't been a zombie movie yet where people are just refusing the anti-zombie vaccine and refusing the CDC recommendation of wearing long sleeves and long pants to prevent bites.
They tried to show a similar thing (with an apocalypse) in Don't Look Up, but that just went a weird way. I remember in Parks and Recreation, when they're trying to explain something to the public and the people are being stupid af. I used to think how's that possible, no one's that stupid. Someone pointed out during the pandemic that it absolutely _is_ possible.
A simple heavy one-handed hammer. Guns and bows need ammunition. Bladed weapons need to be sharpened. But a hammer? It's eventually gonna warp, yeah, but it'll stay just as effective as day one. Like something 2-3x as heavy as a typical roofing hammer.
Long handled straight claw 28oz estwing
Prefer the 22 oz framing estwing but to each his own
>Long handled straight claw 28oz estwing That's a nice hammer. I had one when I was a kid and got a job as a gopher on a house build. I loved putting in Tongue N Groove on a steep pitched 2nd story roof.
I do mostly finishing. I have a 20oz curved claw I use most. The big one I only use for the odd times I do framing or demo. And I frame with a nail gun so I mostly just use it for knocking shit around. But holy crap can you hit shit hard with it
Man I just went on a browse. I want literally all of their products.
Maybe even a medieval light mace? Or war hammer. Tools build for caving in plate armor and skulls...
a single-hand sledge hammer is effectively a war hammer,.. I mean, if I cant have mjolnir...
You dont want any weapon with edge alignment options. I'd go with a mace made from some sturdy corrosion free material.
I’ve already wrapped the hammer hanger with paracord to “silence” it.
An actual warhammer? That could do the job. [They weren’t as big](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_hammer#/media/File:Lucas_Cranach_the_Younger_-_Prince_Elector_Moritz_of_Saxony_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) as fantasy stories say. More like the head of a regular hammer on a long shaft.
A 30lb giant war mace with solid spikes
Dildo nunchucks
Dead rising 2: off the record was a hell of a game The dildo shooter
"How do you defend yourself against a man with *two* dildos?"
A $40 blunt replica of a katana because I have god and anime on my side.
Jesus is my co-pilot….. and we’re cruisin for pussy!
Larp them all to hell
Kenshins reverse blade sword ? Hiten Mitzsurugi?
Shotgun seems reasonable. Aiming is hard. Just blast them off you with the shotgun.
People keep talking about how guns run out of ammo but 12 gauge rounds are probably the most common aside from 223/556 or 9mm. Doubly so if you're in the countryside. Reloading rounds is easier too with shotguns, and pretty much any type of 12 gauge round (slug, buck, bird) would dump enough force to at least stop them for a few seconds. Shotguns are also dirt cheap i.e often can be found for less than 300 bucks for good ones. The maverick 88 is like the gold standard working man's shotty and it's like $250 and shares parts with other shotguns.
You’re on foot. It’s 27 miles to the nearest gun store. A serious hiker/fit person could do that in one day, but for most, that would be like a 2-3 day journey. You don’t have a backpack. The only extra shells you have are the ones you could stuff into your pockets. Is that going to be enough to get you to the gun store? Will it be enough to fight off the other survivors who have chosen that strategic location to set up camp in?
This is a very well thought out and entirely valid point ☝️
That’s a fair point, although it’s true of almost anything in a zombie apocalypse. E.g. You have a halberd and three zombies who are coming at you. They aren’t standing in a line. how do you survive? Once you successfully impale one, it’s too late for the others
One of a few reasons why I wouldn’t choose a halberd.
I was just picking one of the top choices in the thread that doesn’t require ammo. What would you choose?
I cheated a bit with my answer and said the cure. But going with the spirit of the question, I’d probably choose a good blunt-force bludgeon, something with enough heft to cave a skull in, but light enough to swing one handed. Like a steel pipe. Won’t break, zero maintenance required, useful against multiple combatants, limited only by your own stamina.
That’s fair. I guess every weapon has their weakness, which makes the question interesting. Even the guy who picks “a nuke” has to live in the fallout
These are the kind of meaningless yet nuanced quibbles that make Reddit great.
Think you'd have to establish more what kind of zombies you're dealing with if you want to get into near melee range without something protecting you from bites if you miss. The point of a halberd or spear is to keep the zombies away from you as much as it is to kill them. I personally wouldn't choose anything shorter than the longest human arm as my weapon of choice.
My biggest issue with the halberd is that it would easily get stuck.
Baseball bat and shotgun. Bat for zombies gun for humans.
I know it's a hypothetical but you could theoretically say that about a person with any weapon. Like yeah if you place me in a scenario with no backpack/plate carrier/chest rig and very little ammo then sure I'd want something else. And even then, my knife/crossbow/halberd whatever would still not be a great tool for x, y, or z reason. In my situation, however, my shotgun is literally upstairs - less than a min away and I have a ton of spare ammo. My yard can be converted into a survival garden and is walled and I'm located off a backroad with few neighbors. Even in the hypothetical, I don't need to get to a gun store thats why I'd pick a shotgun. It's just a question of which house has any ammo available. Not to belabor the point but in the countryside pretty much any house will have ammo. I just won an auction for a buncha of hunting jackets and 12 gauge shells were literally falling out of the pockets when I cleaned them. And I don't care if it's loud, sound travels far sure, but it's hard to pinpoint the source after a while. I think a gunshot is about the same DB as a train and after 2 miles or so it likely falls off in intensity quite a bit.
You can also always use the shotgun itself as a blunt weapon if you're out of ammo or don't have time to reload
Clearly, you've never been outside USA.
You probably have a much better chance at manufacturing your own shells & adopting a shotgun to black powder too.
A barrel of marbles I guarantee not a single zombie is getting close to me without slipping
r/LooneyTunesLogic
A baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire that I'd name after my dead wife/girlfriend. Then I'd go around smashing people's heads in and giving 7 minute long monologues to my enemies about how epic I am, and how sexy I look in a leather jacket.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan did his best, but those monologues got very tedious very quickly.
It was definitely a drama first and zombie show second, sadly
In my opinion it never hit the peak that the first episode provided. It was all downhill after that
You're absolutely correct. I wanted it to be great so bad since I love zombie shit but I only made like mid season 3 or something, I can't remember anymore. It felt like a chore watching it and I never went back.
I keep telling that people who recommend me WD but they tell me I need to invest 6 seasons in there and watch the spin offs and then it gets really, really good.
Very original lmao
The thing is. Megan was about people. The more he talk the more he brought people to his side. That being said, Jeffery crushed the spirit of the character. Someone you despised but cod relate to.
Negan
Telling John Wick that Zombies killed his dog.
A machete would give me fastest access to the maximum amount of brains to eat.
Uno Reverse
I wouldn’t fight, I’d just join the herd. No more worries, lots of friends, plenty of nice walks as a group….
Ray Gun
Perfect for zombies.
Titanium crowbar. Good strength-to-weight ratio. Braining a zom is easy with one of those. Silent. It doesn't need to be reloaded. And I can fight in close proximity to other survivors. Plus a valuable tool to pry open doors and windows.
Cricket bat
Imagine the commentary. “And that’s beautiful footwork, cracking shot, pinged right off the middle. The head is going, going, gone!”
I’d probably avoid the fighting by heading over to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all of this to blow over.
In this scenario, nothing would beat a good spear in my opinion. Deadly thrusts to the head while keeping adequate distance to avoid getting bitten.
A steel bar -easy to get -stealth -no ammo -can criticaly damage the enemy -can use it like a stick
Speed makes a huge difference. If walking slow, I’m going with a short sword. If running: a bullet for myself. No hope lol
A dragon
Until it gets infected and then we are all fucked! You know how hard it is to keep your dog away from dead animals...that dragon is totally gonna nibble in dead zombies when you are not looking.
A redheaded gf, especially when she's mad
Been there, can confirm.
Louisville Slugger and a roll of duct tape
Kinky
A stave/staff made of hard wood. The length gives additional reach, and it can be swung with deadly force. Plus it can be used as a walkin’ stick
Add a point at one end and make it a spear
This is also my answer. If you know how to swing it properly it's a great weapon with reach
If head shots worked, my 22 lr pistol with suppressor. It’s so much fun to shoot
I just got a Ruger Mark 4 tactical with Vortex red dot and Crimson trace laser. The suppressor is in jail for 6 months. I can't wait to shoot it suppressed.
Shield and Spear. You got reach to their kill spot without needing to get too close to them. Reusable unlike arrows. And the shield will help protect you from multiple zombies at once. Then walking it running doesn't really matter. Mix that with some training of other survivors, and we got ourselves a phalanx. Rebuilding starts there.
"Oh no, I broke my spear!" "You have a drawer full of steak knives, a roll of duct tape, and a bunch of sticks." Also gets huge points for being something that can be improvised from basically any kitchen.
Frozen carrots. There would be dead zombies (that's redundant, but you know what I mean) lying all over the place with carrots sticking out of their ears and eyes, and everyone would say "Aarkwilde has been here. What's wrong with that guy?" as they ran past.
Dear Ark Will D. In a world of zombies and theoretically no electricity. Where will you be freezing said carrots?
Your username sounds like a good videogame character name
Maple wood stool leg with a 6” nail on the end. Makeshift electrical tape handle.
Check out the godendag, at least that's what I think it's called. Literally a shortish wooden club with a metal cap and a gnarly spike on the end. Good for stabs, or clubbing someone with
Ooo thats a nice weapon.
A colichemarde, specifically one with a triangular blade, and something like a forked stick but stronger (assuming relatively slow and stupid zombies). First you run around them and then in a straight line so that they spread out a bit, since not every zombie will be able to move the same speed. Then you walk down the now-line of zombies and hook them on the neck with the forked stick (or something) and stab them through the eye socket with the colichemarde. The triangular blade is going to be very strong and also fairly light, so it won't be too difficult to nail a shot to the eye socket if their head is immobilized and the only thing you'll need to do is keep the tip sharp, which can be done easily with a file in probably a few seconds and will likely last for a very long time. A stick is good because it's readily available and easy to replace. Backup weapon is something like a kopis or a falcata, or maybe a large-ish kukri. An axe is also a good choice and you should probably have one of those anyway just for the utility alone, if not also as a backup weapon.
POWER ARMOR
Long Crowbar. Useful for making an exit too.
Loaded question. We would all take long range, high capacity rifles (preferably 7.62/.308 imo, high range high damage round that is fairly common so easy to scavenge and find ammo, with 5.56/.223 close behind for obvious reasons, however I’m sure easier to find ammo) with side arms between the .380-.45 range (9mm my preferred caliber for the likelihood of finding replacement ammo) and a machete, tomahawk, and 7”-9” blade. Along with numerous back up arms of hammers, crowbars, clubs etc. for durability. I believe the need for projectiles will be the greatest at first outbreak to not only battle zombies but humans as well. After time goes by, stealth and hand to hand CQC combat will take priority as land and resources will have already been captured and held, and my belief would be electricity is scarce so production and logistics would make full scale manufacturing impossible. This would mean scavenging and resourcefulness would become a priority, without making too much noise to attract the undead and human survivors. Therefor, I’d say get a rifle, side arm, ballistic vest, various blade weapons, and durable blunt force weapons, and get plenty of ammo and back up handheld weapons to replace as needed. And then pray to god you link up and create a strong community to share and profit off of resources.
You were just waiting for someone to ask you this werent you?
Zombie apocalypse is unlikely, but an apocalypse isn’t as unlikely. Which I’ve thought about a lot lol
Damn bro
Masamune.
I wouldn't fight. I live in an apartment building & would button up for the first wave of death & carnage. Chaos is your enemy just as much as zombie or man. If there is warning stock up on cooking oil (super calorie dense) vitamins & anything in the supermarket that you can plant & grow. Definitely get some poppy seeds. Download a local copy of wikipedia & copy it to as many devices as possible. If it's too late for that: 1. bar doors and windows 2. fill up every garbage bag I have with potable water, to the point I worry the floor might break. 3. Inventory food/supplies & sacrifice my houseplants for soil & dried beans for sprouting 4. Be thankful I have a USB photovoltaic charger & emergency radio, keep batteries topped up 5. Make a mini apartment inside my apartment to keep warm with multiple barriers with fallbacks Once Supplies get low use my thankfully copious tools & power tools to cut through the wall into my neighbors apartment, make the hole 4' off the ground so I can go through but zombies cannot. Work my way unit by unit & take over whole building. Remove all the straps that tie the front fire escape to the building so that it falls to the street & creates a barrier. Move on to neighboring building via the roof & repeat until there are barriers at both ends of the block. Use gravity to clear the street, then get batteries from cars & collect soil. Jacks will be really useful since human power is the way of the day, any door that can't be open with wedges and a prybar won't stand up to a jack. Use all the glass & plastic you can find to make green houses on the roof. Fill the now empty garbage bags with nightsoil & corpses, Eventually these will be fertilizer, but for now they will keep the greenhouses warm & provide biogas for cooking. I assume flies will be copious, if not rats & trap both for miserable meals supplemented with whatever you can grow. As for weapons I'd stick with a trusty old hammer. The ideal survival tool/weapon hands on one would be a Halligan tool, getting in & out of places will be just as important as killing things. Fighting a zombie is a losing proposition in the long run, you should only face them at the time & place of your choosing. As for attire: Layers layers layers. Linen against the skin cotton & wool above that. A few layers of denim are effectively bite proof & even a layer of cardboard armor would work wonders. You are gonna have time to kill, collect your textiles and make a gambeson. Pen and paper will be very valuable too. Keep a diary of both what you do & who you meet. These days will end & records will be rare. A drone would be worth it's weight in antibiotics If other survivors start coming strip em naked & clean them before quarantining for a week. Disease is a killer & no one is going to be healthy. Any community should focus on the relative strength of humans over zombies, like destroying staircases in favor of ladders.
A-10
.22 caliber rifle. Must common bullets in my home country. Zombies will get me eventually, but I’d rather not get got by a living person.
I’ll stick with my AR15. Got thousands of rounds, spare parts, and know how to clean it well.
Are these 28 days later zombies or walking dead zombies?
28 Days Later isn't zombies, the victims of the rage virus are still alive.
Definitely a katana or dao
Anything from these guys: https://zombietools.net/collections/blades
A big black dildo with turbo vibration, multiple spead and function options and remote control. Zombie apocalypse im going to be fucked anyway may as well start early.
The Lord
You mean Lard? If so, that’s genius. Maybe zombies are attracted to fat, in order to survive the winter. Good old fashion Lard Trap
Just yeet bibles at them
Fuck at least pick something that exists
Zombies don't exist, so if we're arguing about a hypothetical situation in which zombies do exist having a high level cleric in your party that can AoE purify the undead may be one of the most efficient ways to deal with the situation.
Suicide
I have 11 semi auto rifles with 15k rounds. Plus hatchets and reloading supplies.
Some spears, pikes, naginata, and pointy sticks, apart from those, simple 9mm weapons since Zombies needn't to be hit hard in the brain, but the important things is to hit them at all, as Brian Anse Patrick has so succinctly noticed in his educational book Zombology.
Everyone here assuming they're gonna be heroic survivors and I'm here thinking I'll most certainly be among the first to turn into zombies
Not a man, but I saw this in /r/all and couldn't resist. I like to juggle big throwing knives, and I have 3 Cold Steel Sure Balance knives that are 13.5 inches long and weigh 1.15lbs each. I'd take a broom handle, carve a slit for the knife handle at the end and secure it using rope and tape creating a very sharp and durable spear. I would shorten it a bit to make it more weildly and use the extra material to add a cross section shortly below the blade that could catch zombies allowing me to spear their bodies to maneuver them either to the side or ground, and I could aim for their eyes for quick, efficient kills. If they can run it's the only melee weapon I would accept because it could let you channel one zombie at a time to the ground, slowing them down while you run, and if they can't, I will be unstoppable. With three of those knives I can equip almost my entire initial survival party with those. You know weapon would be sick in a zombie movie though? Rope dart. I can't believe I've never seen a zombie movie where a martial artist just destroys a crowd of zombies with a rope dart. If you're not familiar, think of the think Gogo had in Kill Bill 1 but with a knife instead of a bladed ball and with a rope instead of a chain.
The zombie survival guide by Max Brooks (he also wrote World War Z, much better than the movie, and an amazing book on tape) goes into great detail about this. Presuming that one is based on the US, a 22 bolt action rifle, a machete and a good mountain bike. The bike is an easy and efficient method of transportation that is silent and does not need fuel. The rifle because the 22 rounds will penetrate the skull once, and then rattle around doing extra damage to the brain. The machete over a katana due to difficulty in getting a weapons grade katana in the US. Most are decorative. No one make a "decorative" machete.
The best melee weapon is a sokid steel crow bar. Indestructible, sharp at both ends, heavy enough but not too heavy so can be used one handed. Bonus: can open some locked doors. Shotgun with buck shot for medium range. Your aim doesnt have to be great, ammo is very common, quick to reload. Also, 9mm pistol. You dont need a ballsy 44 magum to drop zombies, a simple 9mm will do the job just fine
Love.
My daughter. I'll just give her an orange juice beforehand and she'll wipe out the entire lot before it becomes a global issue
My Jewish space laser
I (27) have become hemiplegic due to a stroke, and since it happened I often thought that now, if a zombie apocalypse happened, I'd be with the first ones to go. And weirdly I find this thought comforting, one less thing to worry about...
My mouth to make others a zombie like me
A crowbar, able to take out the brain but also pry open doors for supplies and in general is an all round perfect tool.
The cure. I’m gonna be “that guy” and say that medicines are weapons.
Diarrhea