How would you fare?

[Lainey]

In a situation like she describes, how do you think you would fare?

Inquiring minds want to know.

[Hiipiäinen]

Hehehe, we used to make plans for a zombie attack with my friends. We figured in that kind of danger it'd be smart to gather warm clothes, lots of water and try to get somewhere high where we can keep eye on things, preferably roof. Stay silent and hidden until we see what the situation looks like. Then make more plans on how to get equipment and food and where to possibly find a safe hideout where those things can't get to. If I was alone, I'd try the same, since moving with big crows must tempt zombies.

This oh-so-serious conversation also lead to the realisation we'd probably all just die hoping our plan had worked better.

[Intrepidman]

Hehehe, we used to make plans for a zombie attack with my friends. We figured in that kind of danger it'd be smart to gather warm clothes, lots of water and try to get somewhere high where we can keep eye on things, preferably roof. Stay silent and hidden until we see what the situation looks like. Then make more plans on how to get equipment and food and where to possibly find a safe hideout where those things can't get to. If I was alone, I'd try the same, since moving with big crows must tempt zombies.

This oh-so-serious conversation also lead to the realisation we'd probably all just die hoping our plan had worked better.

I understnd there is a book on surviving the Zombocalypse. the first thing I would do is put on my motorcycle racing suit. It's zombie-proof, to a point. The next thing would be to load up the Suburban with the wife, dogs, and as much food, water,guns and ammo as it will hold. Try to get away from population centers. Somewhere open, where food grows.

[Pazuzu bin Hanbi]

I saw a thread on a website about surviving a zombie–based TEOTWAWKI scenario. I found three posts in particular explicitly detailed and thus worth linking:

http://www.zombie-nation.net/forums/sho ... post264309

and

http://www.zombie-nation.net/forums/sho ... post264310

(both by the same person, posted in two parts due to word limit constraints)

and the original opening post which started the thread:

http://www.zombie-nation.net/forums/sho ... post237527

[Intrepidman]

I saw a thread on a website about surviving a zombie–based TEOTWAWKI scenario. I found three posts in particular explicitly detailed and thus worth linking:

http://www.zombie-nation.net/forums/sho ... post264309

and

http://www.zombie-nation.net/forums/sho ... post264310

(both by the same person, posted in two parts due to word limit constraints)

and the original opening post which started the thread:

http://www.zombie-nation.net/forums/sho ... post237527

Would you think it would make a difference if the zombies were the classic shambling horde, or the new, faster zombies?

[upallnite]

I saw a thread on a website about surviving a zombie–based TEOTWAWKI scenario. I found three posts in particular explicitly detailed and thus worth linking:

http://www.zombie-nation.net/forums/sho ... post264309

and

http://www.zombie-nation.net/forums/sho ... post264310

(both by the same person, posted in two parts due to word limit constraints)

and the original opening post which started the thread:

http://www.zombie-nation.net/forums/sho ... post237527

Would you think it would make a difference if the zombies were the classic shambling horde, or the new, faster zombies?

It doesn't matter. You cruise on over to my shop in NC and I will turn that SUV into a zombie killing machine!

I have all the normal shop tools and a good amount of scrap metal local to me. Not to mention extensive amounts of automotive mortification experience! Plus I live in the country. Not many zombies when there were only a few thousand people to begin with. As long as the corn does not turn into zombies I'm safe!

Mention DC&R and get a 20% discount on all modifications. Buy our New York City package and get a free paint job! Bring 2 or more kids and you get bumped to the front of the line! At the A-Team shop we're crazy about killin' zombies!

My wife won't let me Mad Max her car with a plow and armor plating.

[Intrepidman]

I saw a thread on a website about surviving a zombie–based TEOTWAWKI scenario. I found three posts in particular explicitly detailed and thus worth linking:

http://www.zombie-nation.net/forums/sho ... post264309

and

http://www.zombie-nation.net/forums/sho ... post264310

(both by the same person, posted in two parts due to word limit constraints)

and the original opening post which started the thread:

http://www.zombie-nation.net/forums/sho ... post237527

Would you think it would make a difference if the zombies were the classic shambling horde, or the new, faster zombies?

It doesn't matter. You cruise on over to my shop in NC and I will turn that SUV into a zombie killing machine!

I have all the normal shop tools and a good amount of scrap metal local to me. Not to mention extensive amounts of automotive mortification experience! Plus I live in the country. Not many zombies when there were only a few thousand people to begin with. As long as the corn does not turn into zombies I'm safe!

Mention DC&R and get a 20% discount on all modifications. Buy our New York City package and get a free paint job! Bring 2 or more kids and you get bumped to the front of the line! At the A-Team shop we're crazy about killin' zombies!

My wife won't let me Mad Max her car with a plow and armor plating.

It shouldn't be too tough. Just have to jack up the suspension high enough so that they can't reach the windows. an 18" lift or so should do the trick. Just run them over, no problem.

[upallnite]

I saw a thread on a website about surviving a zombie–based TEOTWAWKI scenario. I found three posts in particular explicitly detailed and thus worth linking:

http://www.zombie-nation.net/forums/sho ... post264309

and

http://www.zombie-nation.net/forums/sho ... post264310

(both by the same person, posted in two parts due to word limit constraints)

and the original opening post which started the thread:

http://www.zombie-nation.net/forums/sho ... post237527

Would you think it would make a difference if the zombies were the classic shambling horde, or the new, faster zombies?

It doesn't matter. You cruise on over to my shop in NC and I will turn that SUV into a zombie killing machine!

I have all the normal shop tools and a good amount of scrap metal local to me. Not to mention extensive amounts of automotive mortification experience! Plus I live in the country. Not many zombies when there were only a few thousand people to begin with. As long as the corn does not turn into zombies I'm safe!

Mention DC&R and get a 20% discount on all modifications. Buy our New York City package and get a free paint job! Bring 2 or more kids and you get bumped to the front of the line! At the A-Team shop we're crazy about killin' zombies!

My wife won't let me Mad Max her car with a plow and armor plating.

It shouldn't be too tough. Just have to jack up the suspension high enough so that they can't reach the windows. an 18" lift or so should do the trick. Just run them over, no problem.

You're going to want a skid plate across the bottom. This will keep the zomboids from getting wrapped around you axel. Or a slot to stick a chainsaw thru so that you can cut dead bodies off the axle. Either option will be cheap, cheap, cheap.

You are also going to want a hub from a rig. This will make getting new rims and tires as easy as poping them off an 18 wheeler. Plus you can ride on the rim for a few miles in you have to before it hurts the lugs/hub.

You will be puttin' a hurtin' on that tranny(no the one that makes the truck move) with those larger rims and zombie crushin. I suggest a large trans cooler to help the life of your tranny(again, you're gross).

Now if you will let me put a couple of hydro pumps on that sucker and a few parts from the tractor store......

[cnorman18]

I saw a thread on a website about surviving a zombie–based TEOTWAWKI scenario. I found three posts in particular explicitly detailed and thus worth linking:

http://www.zombie-nation.net/forums/sho ... post264309

and

http://www.zombie-nation.net/forums/sho ... post264310

(both by the same person, posted in two parts due to word limit constraints)

and the original opening post which started the thread:

http://www.zombie-nation.net/forums/sho ... post237527

Would you think it would make a difference if the zombies were the classic shambling horde, or the new, faster zombies?

It doesn't matter. You cruise on over to my shop in NC and I will turn that SUV into a zombie killing machine!

I have all the normal shop tools and a good amount of scrap metal local to me. Not to mention extensive amounts of automotive mortification experience! Plus I live in the country. Not many zombies when there were only a few thousand people to begin with. As long as the corn does not turn into zombies I'm safe!

Mention DC&R and get a 20% discount on all modifications. Buy our New York City package and get a free paint job! Bring 2 or more kids and you get bumped to the front of the line! At the A-Team shop we're crazy about killin' zombies!

My wife won't let me Mad Max her car with a plow and armor plating.

It shouldn't be too tough. Just have to jack up the suspension high enough so that they can't reach the windows. an 18" lift or so should do the trick. Just run them over, no problem.

You're going to want a skid plate across the bottom. This will keep the zomboids from getting wrapped around you axel. Or a slot to stick a chainsaw thru so that you can cut dead bodies off the axle. Either option will be cheap, cheap, cheap.

You are also going to want a hub from a rig. This will make getting new rims and tires as easy as poping them off an 18 wheeler. Plus you can ride on the rim for a few miles in you have to before it hurts the lugs/hub.

You will be puttin' a hurtin' on that tranny(no the one that makes the truck move) with those larger rims and zombie crushin. I suggest a large trans cooler to help the life of your tranny(again, you're gross).

Now if you will let me put a couple of hydro pumps on that sucker and a few parts from the tractor store......

Feh. Amateurs. I grew up next door to Fort Hood. Give me an M-1 Abrams battle tank, or even one of the old M-60s. Plow through the hordes at 70 MPH and never feel a bump. Plus a couple of .50-caliber machineguns and that handy cannon if you should need it.

I mean, as long as we're fantasizing, why not go for the gold standard?

[Intrepidman]

I saw a thread on a website about surviving a zombie–based TEOTWAWKI scenario. I found three posts in particular explicitly detailed and thus worth linking:

http://www.zombie-nation.net/forums/sho ... post264309

and

http://www.zombie-nation.net/forums/sho ... post264310

(both by the same person, posted in two parts due to word limit constraints)

and the original opening post which started the thread:

http://www.zombie-nation.net/forums/sho ... post237527

Would you think it would make a difference if the zombies were the classic shambling horde, or the new, faster zombies?

It doesn't matter. You cruise on over to my shop in NC and I will turn that SUV into a zombie killing machine!

I have all the normal shop tools and a good amount of scrap metal local to me. Not to mention extensive amounts of automotive mortification experience! Plus I live in the country. Not many zombies when there were only a few thousand people to begin with. As long as the corn does not turn into zombies I'm safe!

Mention DC&R and get a 20% discount on all modifications. Buy our New York City package and get a free paint job! Bring 2 or more kids and you get bumped to the front of the line! At the A-Team shop we're crazy about killin' zombies!

My wife won't let me Mad Max her car with a plow and armor plating.

It shouldn't be too tough. Just have to jack up the suspension high enough so that they can't reach the windows. an 18" lift or so should do the trick. Just run them over, no problem.

You're going to want a skid plate across the bottom. This will keep the zomboids from getting wrapped around you axel. Or a slot to stick a chainsaw thru so that you can cut dead bodies off the axle. Either option will be cheap, cheap, cheap.

You are also going to want a hub from a rig. This will make getting new rims and tires as easy as poping them off an 18 wheeler. Plus you can ride on the rim for a few miles in you have to before it hurts the lugs/hub.

You will be puttin' a hurtin' on that tranny(no the one that makes the truck move) with those larger rims and zombie crushin. I suggest a large trans cooler to help the life of your tranny(again, you're gross).

Now if you will let me put a couple of hydro pumps on that sucker and a few parts from the tractor store......

Feh. Amateurs. I grew up next door to Fort Hood. Give me an M-1 Abrams battle tank, or even one of the old M-60s. Plow through the hordes at 70 MPH and never feel a bump. Plus a couple of .50-caliber machineguns and that handy cannon if you should need it.

I mean, as long as we're fantasizing, why not go for the gold standard?

Because we are fantasizing about how to handle the fantastic situation in a realistic manner with realistic resources. If we throw that out it is you that is the amateur. I would steal a nuclear aircraft carrier. Fully loaded with tanks, helicopters, aircraft, fuel, food. With a light complement of crew and SEALs, I should be able to last a good long while.

[Intrepidman]

I saw a thread on a website about surviving a zombie–based TEOTWAWKI scenario. I found three posts in particular explicitly detailed and thus worth linking:

http://www.zombie-nation.net/forums/sho ... post264309

and

http://www.zombie-nation.net/forums/sho ... post264310

(both by the same person, posted in two parts due to word limit constraints)

and the original opening post which started the thread:

http://www.zombie-nation.net/forums/sho ... post237527

Would you think it would make a difference if the zombies were the classic shambling horde, or the new, faster zombies?

It doesn't matter. You cruise on over to my shop in NC and I will turn that SUV into a zombie killing machine!

I have all the normal shop tools and a good amount of scrap metal local to me. Not to mention extensive amounts of automotive mortification experience! Plus I live in the country. Not many zombies when there were only a few thousand people to begin with. As long as the corn does not turn into zombies I'm safe!

Mention DC&R and get a 20% discount on all modifications. Buy our New York City package and get a free paint job! Bring 2 or more kids and you get bumped to the front of the line! At the A-Team shop we're crazy about killin' zombies!

My wife won't let me Mad Max her car with a plow and armor plating.

It shouldn't be too tough. Just have to jack up the suspension high enough so that they can't reach the windows. an 18" lift or so should do the trick. Just run them over, no problem.

You're going to want a skid plate across the bottom. This will keep the zomboids from getting wrapped around you axel. Or a slot to stick a chainsaw thru so that you can cut dead bodies off the axle. Either option will be cheap, cheap, cheap.

You are also going to want a hub from a rig. This will make getting new rims and tires as easy as poping them off an 18 wheeler. Plus you can ride on the rim for a few miles in you have to before it hurts the lugs/hub.

You will be puttin' a hurtin' on that tranny(no the one that makes the truck move) with those larger rims and zombie crushin. I suggest a large trans cooler to help the life of your tranny(again, you're gross).

Now if you will let me put a couple of hydro pumps on that sucker and a few parts from the tractor store......

I can see the wisdom of a skid plate, and a brush guard as well. Steel wheels with run-flat tires would be a good idea. I would want to keep the truck as mechanically stock as possible. Bodging tends to decrease reliability and ease of repair like no one's business.

I think another thing to do would be to bolt (not weld, don't want to overheat the glass) heavy-gauge mesh over all the windows and windshield. Just in case any of them break, or you want to roll a window down.

If I did that, then I wouldn't have to jack up the suspension.

Or maybe save myself the trouble and get a UniCat