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[Jonathan S. Fox]

I'm a big fan of the World War Z/Zombie Survival Guide mythology and strategies myself. Although the 100-percent communicable thing would have to be toned down for the virus - otherwise almost every fight would end poorly against the Zeds.

What aspects of World War Z/Zombie Survival Guide mythology and strategies appeal to you? I'm not very familiar with either, to be honest.

[kotor39]

If you wanna be hooked onto zombie books
I reccomend Day by day armageddon by JL bourne
and The morningstar strain chronicles by ZA Recht (RIP)

[Tilla]

I'm a big fan of the World War Z/Zombie Survival Guide mythology and strategies myself. Although the 100-percent communicable thing would have to be toned down for the virus - otherwise almost every fight would end poorly against the Zeds.

What aspects of World War Z/Zombie Survival Guide mythology and strategies appeal to you? I'm not very familiar with either, to be honest.

There's almost too much to mention, but it's a fully realized world after the fall of humanity to the zombie threat, and it's rise again. A tendency away from the cliche (and not very lifelike) chainsaws and shotguns everyone seems to swoon over, towards melee weaponry and resource-independent/efficient guns. The chief weapon the marines build up to fight back is an entrenching tool with a sharpened blade and a spiked end for optimal efficiency of cutting off heads and destroying brains. Guns are developed as semi automatic only carbines - the spread of a shotgun is useless as you want to keep zombies as far away from you as possible, and full auto is useless as a body shot won't do the job.

[EuchreJack]

I'd imagine bows and crossbows would be quite common to fight zombies.

Basically, bows are far easier to make and find than crossbows (what with bows being legal, unlike crossbows), but crossbows are far more accurate for the untrained user.

Plus, crossbows can even be made to use rocks, thus reducing/avoiding the problem of running out of ammo when fighting zombies.

[Jakkarra]

Just because Bows are legal dosent mean there will be a lot f them around.

Hell, Flamethrowers arent Illegal in most states over there, but you don't see too many of them floating about, do you?

[Cheddarius]

Tons of people use crossbows for hunting. I imagine many stores would carry them, if you know where to look.

[chaoticag]

On that note, archery is a somewhat popular passtime, while flamethrowery is generally not.

[Jakkarra]

Prove it.

[Cheddarius]

This is unscientific, but Ebay.com gives "Bow"-Sporting Goods-Outdoor Sports almost 6000 results - heck, it even has an "archery" section with 5000+ results, not to mention the vast 900 in the "hunting" section.

"Flamethrower", on the other hand, gives one result - some sort of hardcore knife-rope thingy.

[Cheddarius]

Okay, Ebay prohibits weaponry. So flamethrowers can't be sold on there at all. Never mind.

EDIT: However, if you google bows vs. flamethrowers, you can see for yourself the massive amount of websites (and presumably stores) hawking bows, which indicates that there's a good market for them. On the other hand, it's remarkably difficult to find anyone selling flamethrowers, because not as many people would buy them. And go to a sporting goods store - they probably sell bows there, while I doubt you'd find even one store in your town selling flamethrowers.

[Shades]

Would a bow even stop a zombie. Assuming that you'd have to remove libs to slow them down then unless your a really good shot, or the zombies are rotting, it might be hard.

I guess similar problems are true of a flamethrower mind you. Rather than being attacked by a horde of zombies your now being attacked by a horde of !!zombies!!, at least until whatever holds them together burns away.

[Zangi]

Heads shots = high critical hit chance, the rest counts as a graze... hitting anywhere else = minimal damage...  zeds don't even have to worry about bleeding out...

And since enemies in LCS are automatically in melee range...  a club to the head seems a lot more feasible...

The games code favours zeds heavily due to no ranged combat.  That is if zeds are made to be like zeds...

[Jakkarra]

Theoretically you could get a Zombie immobilised if you stick it with enough arrows.

[tehstefan]

Well, if you shot the right places, like the legs, it would make it impossible for it to move its legs properly. Same with arms, if you cut the muscles there, they wouldn't be able to use them.

[Leafsnail]

Well, if you shot the right places, like the legs, it would make it impossible for it to move its legs properly. Same with arms, if you cut the muscles there, they wouldn't be able to use them.

Unfortunately, zombies actually WILL bleed on you and bite your legs off.