Reasons not to use a shotgun during a zombie invasion

[grave digger]

very interesting topic

[Fish]

I forget who was on GG, but Metal Gear Steve would totally own zombies.

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[Stamp]

Tanks!?! Explosives!?! Loud guns!?!

Come on guys youve all played zombie mod... Its not zombies being smart that gets you killed... most of the time its just about numbers.

Tanks seems cool and all but think about this... you fire one shell taking out what about 20 zombies but how freaking many do you draw to your location. In a rural area you might last a little while if you can keep up a run and gun but lets face it in the city your facing thousands maybe millions.

So thanks in advance for the help... while you are out there distracting them and drawing them all to your location... I will be slipping by un noticed gathering supplies and heading north or to Japan (Japan is one of the few places with a negative population growth just stay away from major cities like tokyo)


Oh and on a side note to really be ready for Outbreak...
Go Pick up THE ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE by Max Brooks at your local bookstore! Its a great Read!!!

Provided you have enough gas and ammunition, or your gas and ammo dumps are in quarantined areas, tanks would be sufficient in a realistic scenario. Fire one round, drive fast, take chances. What you can't take out shear number wise with rounds, you can drive over and tear the shit out of with the tracks of the Abrams or Bradleys.

[D1lD0]

Yeah, its not like the zombies can catch up to the tank anyways, even if i'm just cruising at 20 mph the traditional zombies from movies move at what? .5 miles an hour. Wow, take in the fact that you could fill up in a matter of 10-15 minutes with a .50 cal on top (1 shot would be enough to disable each zombie. Nothing's gonna get close. Who cares if you're constantly getting the attention of more zombies, what are they gonna do when they get close besides get shot the hell up?

And you just contradicted yourself. You honestly think you'll be able to sneak your way around a city filled with millions of zombies? Its just a matter of time before you make the wrong decision and stumble a whole heaping hell of a lot. And then you'll have to run. Drawing more to your location. And I'm assuming you're not an Olympic distance runner, so fatigue would be a factor. Plus you could only carry around so much ordinance on foot. And the more you carry make fatigue even more of a factor. Not to mention its hard to be stealthy with 100+ pounds of guns/munitions/supplies on your back.

Btw about the Population decline in Japan. Its not like zombies wanna have sex and make babies. So ANYWHERE that has a zombie infestation's gonna see a pretty big population decline? Whereas depending on how soon you get to Japan you're at a disadvantage, the infestation would spread in Japan faster than 80% of the world due to its extremely high population density, meaning less chance of finding non-infected people to help you.

[ZERO]

Why not use N-bombs that would logically solve the problem. I am sure that the US has enough to cover the world once over is used correctly. But you would need to escape into some special shelter or into space until right after they are set off. With advancing technology all the following will be possible to help us survive such a problem in the future:

The space elevator: With this we would only need to defend one island on earth to defend us from zombies. This would allow us a staging point for our re expansion into the world and a place to move our supplies and people us quickly and cheaply in the event of an outbreak.

Space stations: These could house survivors in a place where zombies can not physically ever get to thus making it safe.

Food fabricators: These allow us to grow food like meat in factories the technology is almost complete and it will not be long before you start buying this sort of food anyways without ever knowing

Infantry Armor Mechs: Think like iron man without the lasers and arc reactor. Small mechs that size are being built now with hydrolics. These would logically be full suits so think more like starcraft: those mariens are safe from zerge and thus much safer from simple zombies.

Direct space power systems: the ability to been focused energy from space and capture it as a means of fuel. This is already being advanced as part of the space elevator program. This would allow us to re-fule mechs ect that would need land based power plants that may be too difficult to defend or build during our invasion.

Lunar colonies: these could house more people and refine water and H^3 a very powerful molecule that is rare on earth but yealds great energy and fuel.

Anti mater: we could use this as a power source or a weapon to attack the zombies.

Picreate: A technology developed in WWII to create warships out of ice. Can be done quickly and cheaply this also allows the construction of insanely large water based structures that float b/c of the nature of ice. They do not melt when in temps below 80F and can be used in artic seas easily. In other locations they require cooling systems. It should be noted that they are 10-100 times the strength of concrete and that they are thus bullet proof.

Cloning: if we N-bomb the planet we could clone back all the organic material that we wiped out that we were aware of. We could also use this as a way to clone things that we can not grow in meat factories or so that we have the real thing for the people who can afford the price. We can also use it to help us re-populate the earth or to better our numbers against an enemy in a ground campaign. We could also use genetic manipulation to create humans that are immune to the zombies or more powerful then them. If we were immune and vastly more powerful we could even use the zombies as pets in the future.

[deaf]

zombie pets ehh.... *thinks about shaun of the dead*

at least ill always win at video games

[Foppa]

zombie pets ehh.... *thinks about shaun of the dead*

at least ill always win at video games

Haha, someone needs to make a custom Map of the Winchester.

Oh and as for weapons. We need lightsabers.

[lukeydukey]

Haha, someone needs to make a custom Map of the Winchester.

as long as it's not an escape map i'm down for that.

[Steamer]

Be a long time before we could repopulate the earth after some Nuke drops. With the tech you you talked about and in a more advanced futer, sounds like a viable plan lol. Hell, on a simulation of even 40 nukes dropped at the same time there is enough dust put into the upper atmosphere to blot out the sun for 10 years and cause many other substatial problems with the ecosystem. Imagine a war that used most of our nuclear arsenal, we would most likely obliterate the earth. I read somewere that the world has enough warhead stockpile to kill the human race over 10 times. Thats pretty bad.

[Paper]

I don't agree with much of what the original article says.

And besides, if you're in close quarters like the scenario it gives the shotgun is a much better weapon to be smacking something upside the head with than something like an m4.

Anybody read the Max Brooks Zombie Survival Guide?