Great series, great characters, lots of fun to watch, but....
Seriously, by the end of Season Two they should have a better handle on how to fight zombies.
Driving around on farm at high speed wasting bullets, no plans on how to deal with an expected attack (don't get me started on camping on a hill overlooking Atlanta with open fires at night....), splitting the party (great for dramatic tension only) and so on.
So here's a start...... make some longspears for keeping zombies at a distance while you poke them in the eye.
What would you do?
Admit it, you have all thought about how you would react to a real zombie apocalypse ;-)
Someone needs to find a copy of the Anarchist's Cookbook and fix up some homemade Bouncing Betties. Might not kill many of them, but it will sure slow them down. Plus, when they set them off, you'll know they're coming...seeing as how some zombies apparently can conveniently stop moaning long enough to sneak up on you.
Some wodden stakes, twine, and a few tin cans. Block possible entrances. Wear some heavy clothing when you go out. Have at least one secondary place to move to if your place gets overrun. Plant an explosive device a bit away from where I am and blow it for a distraction if it is needed.
Have at least two people on guard at all time and have then near each other so one will know if something happened to the other.
Armor up aCombine thresher. Make a lot of noise, lure the zombies into a nice level parking lot and mow them down. Bring food and water in with you and have friends on some higher surrounding ground to pick off the straglers in case you get stuck.
Take over a secure building (like a prison) SCOUR the place inch by inch. Secure the location, start growing food, and then start getting more and more people to you. Get to the library. Grab every book on making things that you can.
Every time someone comes in they get the full strip and search to look for bite marks.
Start exterminating the zombies. There's about 6 billion of them, get to work. Plastic or leather armor and chainmail are easy enough to make: you only need to keep out a human bite or scratch, we're not even talking about swords and knives here. Archers and gunners behind 1 line of people using boar spears (so the zombies can't just crawl down the shaft) with a few axe and machete people thrown in the middle.
This is a springpole lathe You can crank out arrows all day long on it.
Take over a secure building (like a prison) SCOUR the place inch by inch. Secure the location, start growing food, and then start getting more and more people to you. Get to the library. Grab every book on making things that you can.
Start exterminating the zombies. There's about 6 billion of them, get to work.
Definitely a valid point.
In the show no, and that's deliberate. The focus is supposed to be on the survivors and their evolution and reaction to the events around them, not on the zombies. (in fact the title "the walking dead" actually refers to the humans
In the show no, and that's deliberate. The focus is supposed to be on the survivors and their evolution and reaction to the events around them, not on the zombies. (in fact the title "the walking dead" actually refers to the humans
I take the title to refer to both the survivors and the "walkers".
Taking over a defensible and sustainable position seems like the smartest option, because if you think about it, the zombie crisis should take care of itself. They're dead. Dead bodies rot. These things should be harmless in about three months, especially in the South in summertime. They're mobile, but they can't defend themselves against flies. Just about every zombie should be overrun with maggots eating away at them.
Taking over a defensible and sustainable position seems like the smartest option, because if you think about it, the zombie crisis should take care of itself. They're dead. Dead bodies rot. These things should be harmless in about three months, especially in the South in summertime. They're mobile, but they can't defend themselves against flies. Just about every zombie should be overrun with maggots eating away at them.
I'm going to assume that whatever makes them zombies makes them inedible to flies as well as other animals, otherwise canada's wolf population would be exploding and taking care of the problem tout suite.
If it is a virus like in the Resident Evil games, then ENYTHING living can become a zombie. OTOH, if it only affects humans, then the issue will eventually be self-correcting.
Taking over a defensible and sustainable position seems like the smartest option, because if you think about it, the zombie crisis should take care of itself. They're dead. Dead bodies rot. These things should be harmless in about three months, especially in the South in summertime. They're mobile, but they can't defend themselves against flies. Just about every zombie should be overrun with maggots eating away at them.I'm going to assume that whatever makes them zombies makes them inedible to flies as well as other animals, otherwise canada's wolf population would be exploding and taking care of the problem tout suite.
The cause might make them taste / smell bad to animals and incects or make them poisonous to anything that eats them, even if it does not turn them into zombies.
Doesn't seem to stop the bacteria, given the rate of decay. Plus, in areas like the Southwest United States, tissue would mummify, which would tend to make movement difficult when you're a zombie with muscles like beef jerky.
They'll freeze solid in the winter, in some places.
Which may or may not kill them. Be a good time to take a bunch of the out though.
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Lets face it:
If they were Pathfinder (or other RPG players) as in 'that's a dominant character trait that shows even now, the world is going down the drain', they would probably be all dead until the end of the third episode:
- getting killed arguing about what the created the zombies
- getting killed finding out that while there are zombies, flying bat poo at them still doesn't work
- getting killed arguing what kind of gun/pointy stick/club would do the most damage
- getting killed finding out that sitting around a table playing big bad heroes might improve their tactical thinking but does nothing to simulate the mental stress of losing friends, family, security and purpose and that arenaline does not make a lasting impact on keeping your head straight.
Great series, great characters, lots of fun to watch, but....
Seriously, by the end of Season Two they should have a better handle on how to fight zombies.
Driving around on farm at high speed wasting bullets, no plans on how to deal with an expected attack (don't get me started on camping on a hill overlooking Atlanta with open fires at night....), splitting the party (great for dramatic tension only) and so on.
So here's a start...... make some longspears for keeping zombies at a distance while you poke them in the eye.
What would you do?
Admit it, you have all thought about how you would react to a real zombie apocalypse ;-)
There's a very good reason that vets of the Asian campaigns came home with more trauma than their WW2 predecessors. Unlike the former they spent their hitch in nearly constant levels of danger and the attendant stress of always having to look for the next trap, the next sniper, the next ambush.
That's not a healthy stress level for the Human mind. So yes while the Survivors would theoretically be getting better at the mechanical routines, their overall psychological degradation has to be factored in, especially since for the most part none of them are even trained for that level of combat.
The other thing you seem to forget when you think longspears is that the zombies themselves aren't that really dangerous individually, it's when they swarm you in packs that things tend to really go south.
Life doesn't have the precision of a game. You can't always expect the other guy to wait his turn in the initiative order.
I'd buy this except that the stress levels taper. They've been camped out on this farm and most of them have had very little zombie-related stress. Most of the stress has been the interrelations between the characters (which is good, otherwise the show would just be a serial action movie). Still, I wouldn't say they're at the level of combat veterans. Keeping watch on top of an RV in the middle of a field looking for zombies doesn't really compare with peering out into the jungle waiting for enemy combatants that know where your camp is located.