What is your role in post-zombie apocalypse?

Max001 wrote: »

The vast majority of the population are urban / suburban dwellers, with few ties to the countryside and little to no farming skills.

That's true but that population will be the first to be heavily affected by the situation. A lot will become infected, a lot will die from lack of food or in the chaos of food riots, a lot will die fleeing the cities.

Unless whatever location is settled includes a farm and the expertise to run it and defend it, we're going to be reliant on food we can scavenge until such times as sustainable food sources are developed.

Once you leave Dublin, or any city pretty much every field you see is a farm of some sort. In the east and south where the land is good there's a lot of crop farming, out here in the west where the land isn't as suitable it's all animal farming, lots of cattle and sheep. Even unmanaged the domestic farm animals will be a dependable source of food.

After that you can forage quite a bit, nettles make good food and they're everywhere, berries in the autumn grow everywhere, with the industrial world gone the rivers and seas should be over run with fish in short time.

Anyone who views being armed as dangerous, in the context of a zombie filled world is very quickly going to become lunch.

Think of it this way, imagine the worst estate in Ireland full of all the criminal lowlife families you can think of. Which do you think would be the safest way to move through that estate? Head down, hood up, walk through unarmed? Or strolling down the street with a baseball bat? I'm not saying you should be unarmed but make sure not to draw attention to yourself as carrying valuable weapons. If a group of armed men surrounded you the guns basically useless, you'll have to surrender it. If you look pathetic and barely able to scrape food together you'll be less of a target for people.

Kromdar wrote: »

i propose a 3rd option

i personally, in a post-apoc society, would like to start up a warehouse of scavenged parts. i would set up shop in a large industrial building, preferably with some sort of generator/welder, some tools, and a whole load of barbed wire.

anyway i would set up just outside a city, have a few scavengers looting the city.

It's a good idea, what would make you most valuable, even more so than having the store is a knowledge of the city and where to get things. You wouldn't even have to bring everything back to the store, when you find something useful hide it in the city and tell people you know where to find it. People can steal your stuff but they need to be on your good side to get your information.

ScumLord wrote: »

Think of it this way, imagine the worst estate in Ireland full of all the criminal lowlife families you can think of. Which do you think would be the safest way to move through that estate? Head down, hood up, walk through unarmed? Or strolling down the street with a baseball bat? I'm not saying you should be unarmed but make sure not to draw attention to yourself as carrying valuable weapons. If a group of armed men surrounded you the guns basically useless, you'll have to surrender it. If you look pathetic and barely able to scrape food together you'll be less of a target for people.

It's a good idea, what would make you most valuable, even more so than having the store is a knowledge of the city and where to get things. You wouldn't even have to bring everything back to the store, when you find something useful hide it in the city and tell people you know where to find it. People can steal your stuff but they need to be on your good side to get your information.

Who do you think will get their hands on firearms, immediately after the military and police? The criminals of course. If they don't have them already.

By employing military tactics, you lessen the risk of getting surrounded.
By planning first, you avoid areas full of lowlifes or other threats.
Should the worst happen and you do find yourself in a tight spot, I'd be much happier with an automatic weapon than relying on my acting abilities. Saying you're surrounded, thus a firearm is useless, is no sort of logic at all. Also, it doesn't take much effort, to keep even the most complicated of firearms serviceable. They are built for battlefield conditions. Whether its other people, or zombies, its a lot easier to kill at a distance, than up close. That's the purpose of assault weapons. To keep the threat at a distance.

Hope for the best by all means. But, prepare for the worst.

Last warning folks, cut the political debate down to a minimum - you're both derailing the thread and sapping the fun from the topic with it. If you really really have to discuss the pro's and con's of communism, try the politics forum.

If ur trying to find something with a little more firepower during the apoc then Perhaps a raid on a local Garda armoury? I know it's a long shot but if u got there early enough into the outbreak and new exactly where to go once inside the building then you should get yourself something handy with a good amount of ammo. Getting weapons from the army would be near impossible unless u stole from them which would prove extremely difficult, if there was less of them then u and a few of u had guns then you could maybe force them to hand over their shiny Steyrs but thats unlikely. As far as firearms go, you'd have to make-do with ur .22's and shotguns from ur nearest gun shop or farmer. Unless u get lucky or try one of the above ^

Anything the DF have would be locked up tight, they don't just throw them in a press.

The average person here would be incapable of using anything the DF/Gardai have anyway, firearms aren't just point and shoot. Unless the person can actually use a firearm correctly they would just piss away the limited amount ammo they would have.