Out of Pod Experience

Ty ISD Cyberdine.

I had this made last month, uses AK bullets and is full-auto ready. needs a bottom half that accepts AK magazines and then it's cherry. It's the gun I decided would be perfect through deployments (one of the special forces guys had something similar, but with a silencer on it.) here it is where it sits on my desk where I can enjoy it while I pew (yo dawg...)

I have a Glock 19 Gen 4 though I think I want the Gen 3 instead

this is next

then I'm done purchasing guns, forever. those are the weapons I would carry on me like a zombie apoc urban assault sam fisher

Running out of fuel, ammo and batteries is a huge misconception with many zombie enthusiasts, or at least those in the states.

For ammo - as we all know, the US has a lot of guns. Stock piles of them to be exact. And for these guns we have enormous amounts of ammo so we may spend hours upon hours shooting said guns. For this reason alone it has been stated numerous times that a zombie apocalypse would not last long in the states because as soon as one dead bugger starts shambling everyone within 3 blocks of him will be whipping out their pistol.

Now for the sake of an argument, lets say that the initial disease was some super fast moving airborne carrier to start and it later evolved to the kill, resurrect, and bite procedure. The only way for the zombie apocalypse to work is for this disease to infect at least 80% of the population in one go. By doing this you suddenly free up a ton of guns and several tons of ammo that can be found almost everywhere you go. Private homes alone could be packing up to a dozen rifles with several hundred rounds of ammunition not touched if the defenders got hit by the microscopic killer. Police stations and prisons now carry a large variety of stockpiled weapons and have storerooms full of ammo. Guns stores and pawn shops would provide you again with a large variety of weapons but only one would be carrying ammo. And then there's the Guard and their armory.

You might claim that all of these places would be already looted, but that would be statistically unlikely. And even if they are/were, well those items have to go somewhere, they simply don't get lost into obscurity. And even if you have trouble finding usable ammo, there are bound to be dozens of shell casings laying about everywhere, and pretty much any sporting good store you visit will sell refill kits. You haven't exactly got a job anymore, so unless you plan on spending every waking moment looking for a zombie to kill you should be able to set aside some time to make bullets. The only 2 ways that one could truly run out of ammo is if they bunker down and refuse to leave which is just bad to do in the first place, or if they find themselves having an incredibly bad day and they get surrounded on all sides by a monstrous horde of zombies, in which case they would be screwed anyways.

Gas - This will probably be the easiest item to find, and it will suddenly be in bulk. A quick statistic check shows that there are some 300 million registered vehicles currently in the states. Now if you have ever seen movies like zombieland, I am legend, or the tv show The Walking Dead, you will eventually see a scene where large groups of vehicles are blocking the hero's paths. Every single one of these cars is a little gas station. The gas doesn't simply disappear after the owners turn, it stays inside of that tank for years and years until it eventually goes bad. And hopefully by that time the actual invasion is gone and a new civilization is forming in Nebraska, but that's for a later discussion. All you need is a couple of Jerry cans, lots of hose, and a hand pump.

Battery - pretty much the same logic applies to batteries as it does bullets. How many various shops can we think of off the tops of our heads that sell batteries. And again, even if they aren't seen in a store, you are more than likely to find them in a home. My desk at home has a couple of AA 8 packs by itself, and then there is the rest of the house. We aren't going to find ourselves in a situation where there is a nutcase in a fallout shelter holding on to 200 thousand packages of batteries so he can power his toothbrush.

Keep in mind that today's infrastructure, just for the US, is supporting almost 350 million people and their daily needs. Even if we do a generous 10% initial survival rate that means that we now have 45 million people spread out in a nation design to support 350 million people. Yes the gears have stopped but items don't go directly from the factory to the store, there are warehouses everywhere stocked with whatever you need. It just becomes a matter of how hard is it to get to them.

As for me, in actuality I would be packing guns. 2 things have always bugged me about people who decide to go with the hand weapon only route:
1 - if you allow a zombie to get close enough for hand to hand, you are not a horrible job of evasion.
2- hand to hand usually becomes a very bloody affair, we've seen it in every movie. The issue here is that the disease is in the blood so essentially you are choosing to parlay with a ticking time bomb.

I like this. There is no need to limit this kind of thinking to a zombie scenario.

The last line is what I'm referenced to. No worries about running out of ammo, fuel, or power.




This is making an assumption that one would be shooting/hacking zombies 24/7 with absolutely no time for a break. If that is the situation then gas is out of the question anyways because you will eventually run out of stamina yourself and be overran.
Take the show the walking dead for example, how many times do we see somebody just standing around.



No I'm talking about the same thing. Places will still have stockpiles.
And to cover 2 quotes with one sentence, I have an older chainsaw that will last for several hours on a tank of gas. I'm sure that battery power saws will last longer and a battery is small enough to carry on oneself. Just how long do you intend on staying in a location if zombies show up?




Key word here is sometimes. Say you need to get out of a certain exit, but there are a good 20 zombies there. You are 50 ft away currently. Which would you prefer to do battle with, small arms or a shovel?

And the best part is with a12 ft mantis you can easily ride it into battle. You should consider using the pole saw as a lance.

That´s like asking if you can post nude pics of trannies in a brazilian forum.

No but yes.

Also, as my fav weapon of zombie protection I would use something like this, the Armor of the Dread Emperor from the Book of Vile Darkness ...

See, when zombies come, all damage will be transferred to the little elven children chained to the armor, as I laugh in maniacal glee.

nobody has mentioned crossbows yet.
silent, but deadly :>

Well this was more about discovering a new weapon rather than cycling through the usual line up but you are more than welcome to use a crossbow.



Or you can be awesome like Lars.

You haven't met the KSG yet, have you?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kel-Tec_KSG


Bar mace. Essentialy a heavy metal bar, with one end wrapped in tape. And if you're bashing heads, you're doing it wrong - You break joints and limbs. Crippled zombie == mission kill, and that's enough.

Reasonably fit person can swing a two- or three-pound bar for a long time, and that's enough to do the job.

What about acid? I never seen acid used in any zombie movie..and there should be plenty of battery acid available from all the derelict cars once the zombie apocalypse has started.
Also a combine harvester should be quite effective against zombies...haven't seen this in any movie yet, either.