The only other thing you would have to think about is what you would do after a few years of living on the boat, assuming that the infection is still widespread. As salt water is extremely corrosive, your boat would have to be serviced and maintained often, which would be a major risk to take the time to pull your boat out of the water and do the servicing. Unless you plan on jumping from boat to boat whenever the one your on starts to deteriorate.
actually that got me thinking. both your and my boat plan have boats that have hulls covered in special anti-corrosive paint, which needs to replaced every decade and a half. i gonna need to secure a dry dock at some point. your going to need a major port with a base.
If I were alone fending for myself against zombies I'd most likely kill myself. Easiest way. A zombie apocalypse wouldn't be as exciting and dramatic as some of you guys think. Youd be constantley fighting for your life, in fear, starving and slowly becoming insane. Also the chances are you'd be a zombie anyway. :) (slightly morbid post)
And if you're already insane? What else can you lose if you've lost your mind? The village idiot has all the fun. All you've got to do is live. That can't be too hard.
zombie plan : 1. go to local mall. 2. go to outdoor adventures store. 3. steal suit of medieval armour. 4. cover vulnerable spots with metal. 5. take swords and crossbows and pieces of meat. 6. walk into the middle of parking lot of busy mall. 7. smash car window to start alarm and cover self in meat and meat juices. 8. prepare for the slaughter.
zombie plan : 1. go to local mall. 2. go to outdoor adventures store. 3. steal suit of medieval armour. 4. cover vulnerable spots with metal. 5. take swords and crossbows and pieces of meat. 6. walk into the middle of parking lot of busy mall. 7. smash car window to start alarm and cover self in meat and meat juices. 8. prepare for the slaughter.
Good idea, except the meat part. That could be used to oh I don't know...cook on a grill and be consumed?
That's quite possibly the dumbest plan I've ever heard. I doubt you'd be able to walk very far in medieval armor, let alone try to get yourself surrounded by zombies. I guess you're trying to be "armored zombie?"
In any case, medieval armor was made obsolete by the advent of the firearm, so when you do become a zombie, I'll be sure to aerate your face with an 8mm Mauser round.
The first part of any successful zombie plan is to learn about the zombies. Are they vampiric where they can only come out at night? Can they run, jump etc. Are they constantly rotting or simply preserved undead. Can they learn. These things will determine the next steps of the plan. Regardless, I know all the places that I can store up on supplies, improvised weapons, vehicles, food and ammo within 20 km of my house, and I agree that Grif's contingency plan of heading north is the best plan. Live on one of the uninhabited islands north of Nunavut, or even better take up residence at the Alert Canadian Military Base (The most northern, habited point on the globe) Then go to an apartment complex, destroy the stairs (zombies can't climb) and live in the top of a building using a rope to climb up and down. Stay alone except for a wife and 1 or two other couples. If possible, attempt to repopulate. If not, live solitary and simple lives until you die of natural causes.
I agree with the whole knowing your enemy strategy, depending on what types they could be, makes it easy to plan accordingly, if what has happened in recent times (rudy) is of any show, it tells that the possibility of them being slow, disoriented day walkers are most probable, responding to light, and sound, but say it was rotting, then you can take measures to protect yourself, as it can help to speed up the rates of decomposition, another aspect which is always avoided is the actual functions of the zombie, you see them eat in movies, and other forms of mainstream media, and just accept it, but this is not very likely, they would eat alot, tearing through flesh muscles and sinew, the chances of them having a working digestive system is never covered, so there is in all likelihood that the zombies would be terribly slow moving, and stink, with shards of debris protruding from their various orifices... My zombie plan is simple, I have a large family of which to care for, so travelling long distances is going to be hard, as an established group, resources can also become an issue, and so I am going to be heading south from where I live, to an often overlooked little island, that has an established castle complete with activity center and indoor archery range... I will just have to pick up some replies from town first. Americans, have it slightly easier as they are very spread out... and you have two options, North, and hope that the blood vessels constrict on the corpses and they become useless, or south, in the hope that the intense heat, or just murk of the everglades will speed up the rates of decomposition so much that they become a non issue.
Well looking at it from a realistic point (as realstic as it get's for zombies) it would be physically impossable for zombies to run, unless they are fresh, their decayed muscles wouldn't allow it, the other issue is that their motor skills wouldn't be so great the chances are if they tried to sprint after you they would fall over. as for the sound and light thing, you could use that to their advantage, just throwing a rock would be anough to use as a distraction. also when making plans, don't forget about the mob mentality! zombies are effectively very feral and increadably primitive humans (not quite theirs a lot of differences, but you get what I mean?) as a result they will have a kind of mob mentality, this is why they are shown travelling in pack's quite often. As a result of zombies stupidity though a pack can be walking along and then one zombie while walking may accidently brush its hand against a door, then the next zombie will interperut this as the other trying to get in thinking there's someone in there and will start banging on the door, this will then set off a chain reaction that will start all zombies in the group trying to get into an empty room, this will be useful for planning
Well, like you said it depends on how "fresh" if it was possible, and pain was not a factor for them as is assumed, then they would probably appear superhuman, least until their ligaments and tendons snap, rendering them a shambling mess at best.
I'd like to think I'd smash through various gun cases in and around the neighborhood, then round up as many survivors as I could for a mad dash north of the border, but the fact that I live in the dirty south and that I'm not athletic or a badass by any means sort of stops that from being an option. Unless I started training now..
Currently, however, in case of zed apocalypse, the plan would probably be to just kiss a bullet. Unless I could use my awesome D&D skills to herd them all up.. necromancer ftw
If I've learned anything from Resident Evil its that you will survive if you are alone and run through narrow pathways with excessive firepower you will survive. Eating plants help.
Yeah something else we learned is that normal civilians will die, elite troops will die.. unless you have a troubled past, or your looking for someone, you are also going to die... basically, everyone right now should get in contact with your nearest Cartel, and make them kidnap a family member, or you're screwed!
So, when you're faced with a horde of zombies you've got to fight off, what songs will you play on your iPod? This is important. You don't want to be ill-equipped when the Apocalypse strikes. I'm thinking this, but slightly different (this is edited to avoid copyright suits), some of this, this, this, shitloads of this, maybe this if I'm feeling mellow, definitely this, this, and many more. And when a girl I pick up dumps me, lots of this. Forever Alone.
Yes! I'm chill though, I already have a zombie kit in my wardrobe and it will take a long time for the infection to get over to britain anyway. In reply to JayHawk46, #566:
There was the face eater in Miami, the intestines-thrower in New Jersey, a guy who ate a heart and half a brain in Maryland, and a guy mailing chopped bodies in Canada. And I'm right in the middle of it all. FML.
I have two different plans of where to escape to actually. Both plans involve me carrying along with me my Cutlass and Chinese Dao with my KaBar Kukri. First stop I would make is to the gun store near my house to load up on supplies, then follow my way out from there down the road to get to the railroad (I live in Cincinnati so there's a bunch of tracks going through.). From there I would make one of two escapes. Either follow the track to the river to secure a boat to take down the Ohio River to the Mississippi River to make my way out to the ocean, or follow the train tracks North to Canada while fighting my way out.
