Essential Zombie Survival Tips

start reading manuals now, you never know when this info will come in handy, physics, bear grhyls, shure throw in some delia smith for good measure make sure you eat well to keep up the energy levels for battering zombies.

Make sure you dont eat of the same knives you kill with tho, bad way to go!

Sod'o swords wrote: »

Always apply zombie repellent on foggy mornings and any other day types to look ripe for "the rise"

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My Plan,

Protection
First and foremost, bite-proof clothes, leather jacket, flak vest [thanks, airsoft!], gas mask, welder's gloves and some canvas or heavy combats, shin pads [try running from a zombie when it's around your ankles, we cant all step on their heads, ms redfield!] also shinpads for your arms, or whtever, maybe with some mad-max-esque spikes in em. rope [you gotta need rope] and a "ballymun key" [crowbar] are essential for gathering supplies or making your way into your possible refuge.


Rations/Location
Backpack: edible foods that will not perish for a while, energy drinks, waterproof sheet of some sort, towel, change of clothes [keep it basic].
Escape is by foot, acquiring bicycle/dirtbike/quad if possible.
Objective is to make it to the train tracks, from there you can locate a stronghold.

Weapons
Improv Explosives #1! a zombie cant get you if it's in small pieces!
crowbar acts as bat/axe style weapon, whereas your traditional sword or machete [however illegal] is better.
long range weapons would be improv'd as needed.
Realistically i will have no access to a rifle, nor would i want to for a while, as the noise and effort of ammo conservation/reloading is pointless at zero hour.
keep em for defense!

Team work
Keep your team trained and informed of any changes to the basic plan.
It is important to be able to rely on others to watch your back, but always have a contingency plan if one is lost.

Notes:
Survival is the key. your team is trained to survive in such an enviroment. unless you encounter another, well-informed and well-trained team or individual, accept no newcomers to your group.
in the case of a 28-days later scenario, have rally points/defensive points set up and always think redundancy: what if your zomb-shelter was overrun? you will need to outlast the zombie holocaust, plan ahead!

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You also need to know who is a zombie first, This should help:

Having reviewed the extensive documentary material available on the net, in HMW and the pitiful selection in my public library, I've succeeded in identifying a few gotta-know points.

1. Zombies won't continue a pursuit over water. In at least one case I reviewed the intended victim made a successful escape by means of appropriating a small boat and propeller of into the sunrise. This means that adapting to a naval lifestyle would get you out of reach of the Zombies. Instead of thinking about guns and ammo, why not consider a nice cruise?

As an alternative, why not relocate to a remote Island?

2. Zombies don't operate heavy equipment, trucks, cars or bikes. I believe that this should give us an advantage in the field. I believe the idea of fighting these enemies in the close quarter confinement of cities is where our defence forces usually gets it wrong under these circumstances. Clearly meeting the enemy head-on in single large scale engagements with the appropriate aerial and artillery support would make all the difference.

3. Who are our allies? I find it likely that should a large scale zombie outbreak occur, we would need to review the choices we've done re allies and enemies. After all, Vampires are bad, but they tend to target individuals, and they have an interest in keeping a healthy community going. I believe we could build on these common interest to battle an enemy that would see the nations of the earth fall to dust.

1. Zombies won't continue a pursuit over water. In at least one case I reviewed the intended victim made a successful escape by means of appropriating a small boat and propeller of into the sunrise. This means that adapting to a naval lifestyle would get you out of reach of the Zombies. Instead of thinking about guns and ammo, why not consider a nice cruise?

Errr two slight problems.Martial law and high sea piarcy?
Are the authorthies going to allow you to simply leave via boat or plane???
first things that are going to be shut down IMMEDIATELY is any type of travel,both national and international.After all they are not going to know what is causing the dead to rise from their graves are they??It could be airborne,a chemical,a ..whatever!!So a good possibility is the waters around Ireland[say hypothecially it breakes out here first].Could become a literal no go zone with anything trying to get in or out being at worst shot out of the sky or blown out of the water,by any EU/US whomever navy being put in charge of quarintine at best being turned back to Ireland.
Dont think that they will allow air travel or innocent civillian speil work,to prevent a contaigen spreading like this.I wouldnt be surprised if they didnt consider nuking the country to prevent it spreading to the rest of mankind.
Second part,so say the quarintine doesnt happen and off you sail in whatever craft.Belive me if you made it out to the sea there will be other folks out there looking for nice fat targets like your boat to pirate.Not the kind of eye patch parrot on shoulder types.More the like in high speed power boats toting 50 cal duce machine guns.Who shootb all survivors.

As an alternative, why not relocate to a remote Island?

see above points.



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. Zombies don't operate heavy equipment, trucks, cars or bikes. I believe that this should give us an advantage in the field. I believe the idea of fighting these enemies in the close quarter confinement of cities is where our defence forces usually gets it wrong under these circumstances. Clearly meeting the enemy head-on in single large scale engagements with the appropriate aerial and artillery support would make all the differenc

Ahh !but in day of the dead .They were figuring out how to use guns and petrol pumps again.:) Next ,it comes down to HOW did this disease[?]start?What happens if this is a man made plauge?First logical target might be a countries armed forces.Zs seem to disperse in the country,so it might be better just to evacuate as many living people from cities and nuke the Zs in a confined city???

3Vamps dont exist.Nor are they much help if they did.They cant live on dead flesh and are useless once the Sun comes up.The Zs can live on anything and are not botherd by sunlight.

Local pubs offer best protection against zombies!

I think we've forgotten an important lesson history has taught us...
Viking beserkers were a lot like zombies, I guess. And those round tower thingies have a fair amount going for them.

All's you need is a perimeter/fence with a decent warning system, a good enough distance from your central rallying point to enable people to run to it when the alarm goes off (you could use bells on a fence if you wanted to be old-school I guess)

And your central building should have an elevated door (probably about 15 feet to be safe... just incase you off enough zed-heads to make a ramp for their easy access) and a rope-ladder that you pull up after a certain amount of time.

Ideally, you should be situated somewhere relatively inaccessible/unpopulated so that you get your food-and-water stocks to a decent level in case you are overrun.

Oh, and I plan on training my dog to know what the infection smells like and go off his nut if he can smell it anywhere... that way the teammate who says "oh, i tore my leg on some barbed wire" can be, eh, neutralised before they become a zed.

Is it wrong for me to be mad excited about this?

kieranfitz wrote: »

You forget that round towers tend to be in graveyards, z-day ground zero

They're only ground zero if the graveyards are relatively new though, right? Ancient monastic remains tend to be too skeletal to produce much in the way of zombage. I still think this could be a runner.

In fact, when I get the money together to build me a house, the door is going to be reached by (easily burnable in an emergency) wooden steps

ratio of round towers to survivor groups? exactly.

i reckon a lot can be said for martello towers, basically the same, lots more of them, generally situated in a good defendable position, next to the sea for the escape. remember: castles, fortified houses and the likes of round/martello towers were all built for defending against hand-to-hand combat, and light weaponry.

its a safe bet they're still good at what they were originally designed to do.

Another problem with round towers is there essentially very small buildings, how long could you survive in one? Vikings would probably give up and sail home eventually but zombies will just stand outside waiting for you to come out.

You should find a building that will allow you to come and go as you need to while still holding out zombies.

that would be pretty awesome, but how many hits to take down a z? usually bullets take about 5-6 hits, course a shottie would do it in less, if anyone has an airsoft shottie that is.

thats true, paintball is on the expensive side, but at least you can see who you've hit.

gabigeist wrote: »

. a friend of mine took a bullet to the face at Laois County Council's day-of-the-living-dead emergency evacuation rehearsal over the weekend. Ouch!

so you're saying here that laois co. co. organized a zombie evacuation? :eek: