Zombie Apocolapse?

[Sealknife]

Well if these are Dawn of the Dead zombies, I doubt caliber will matter that much.

If these are 28 Days/Weeks Later zombies then stopping power will be where it's at. I would probably go with a Glock 22, Mossberg 590 with slugs and 00, and a titanium crowbar.

Crowbars are the tits at CQC zombie destruction.

[IMightBeWrong]

I love ungly little glocks :) So handy!

[elipson]

Chain saws take too long to cut through stuff! Knives are stupid, but swords have proven to be very good at cutting through heads and necks.

That chain saw is going to be throwing blood and jagged bits of bone with brain matter all over the place. Hope you're wearing goggles.

And you're gonna have to swing it around pretty quickly when dealing with multiple zombies.

Going it alone? Play Left 4 Dead. You'll see.

[IMightBeWrong]

I love that game. Gotta get it back from my friend's place though and he's outta town...

[Neildo]

i got bored with L4D very quickly. gimmicky zombies are boring. hordes of regular slow zombies is much more entertaining (can't wait for Dead Rising 2).

i used to have a wakazashi, and i was really good with it. i cut through all kinds of stuff. i still don't trust it against zombies. you need more power!!!! some kind of big industrial tool that just fucks shit up, and fast.

get some liquid nitrogen and some kind of deployment mechanism. squirt and shatter.

and yeah, if it's close-range zombie killin time, i'll keep the motorcycle helmet on. visor down. and besides, you don't think there will be spray when you're trying to hack one to bits with a machete? they don't feel pain, and are generally relentless. stab all you like, you can hack off an arm and get all kinds of arterial spray up in your face and it wont even flinch. you could do a scarface and cut the fucker in half with the chainsaw, and it'll drag it's torso over and bite your damn leg off.

H2H is pointless anyway. if they get that close, you're pretty much fucked.

[adouglasmhor]

Get a hedger's or a Yorkshire billhook for decapitating and skull smashing. That and my Lee-Enfield is what I will have to rely on.

[Sealknife]

If these are fresh zombies than there will be arterial spray, but if they're more than a few hours old than it will be coagulated.

Unless, of course they're 28 Days/Weeks Later zombies who aren't dead, just infected with the Rage Virus.

Blunt trauma weapons(Crowbar, baseball/cricket bat, section of pipe, etc) will involve less risk than a machete or other edged weapons.

[elipson]

Isn't a wakazashi a kind of shorter sword?

What about the longer styles of Katana or others?

[Japuma630]

If these are fresh zombies than there will be arterial spray, but if they're more than a few hours old than it will be coagulated.

Unless, of course they're 28 Days/Weeks Later zombies who aren't dead, just infected with the Rage Virus.

Blunt trauma weapons(Crowbar, baseball/cricket bat, section of pipe, etc) will involve less risk than a machete or other edged weapons.

Zombie hearts don't beat, there would no arterial spray... the system not under pressure any longer.

[meataxe]

Zombie hearts don't beat, there would no arterial spray... the system not under pressure any longer.

No kidding... that's Zombie Physiology 101.

[Jim_Jude]

No, no, no, no, no, no.

Just no.

The MP5 is a lousy zombie apocalypse weapon.

For one, nobody likes those things anymore.

Actually, +P HP Gold Dots would be great for slow movers, or even medium movers. You don't know. Hell, high velocity .22 out of a $500 accurized 10/22 would do the do.

Two, you've got to weigh ammo conservation, weight and the versatility of your weapon against it's potential killing power. For all it's counterstrike sexiness, the MP5 doesn't have a lot of stopping power - unless you don't mind burning 30 rounds ON A SINGLE FUCKING ZOMBIE! This would be a tragic waste.

Since we're nonsensically discussing "stopping power" on a zombie, who wouldn't give a rat's ass about Temporary or Permanent Wound Channels, Cavitation of High-velocity rounds (with the possible exception of Neurogenic shock), or Hydrostatic Shock, Hypovolemic shock, or most any other form of shock... the only thing that will stop one, for sure, is severe trauma to the CNS, C-spine & Up. So WHO THE FUCK IS GOING TO WASTE 30 ROUNDS OF ANY CALIBER ON A SINGLE ZED!?! An MP5 would be just fine, even when running failure drills (mozambique) or double tapping.

I'd stick with a shotgun, and I'd make sure to recover what shells I could. You can always re-load them with gravel if need be.

I would absolutely agree on this one, if they're fast movers. I shoot enough to trust my trap shooting skills over anything else if dealing with those damn Carl Lewis fucking zombies.

If the zombie's far downrange, the zombie is someone else's problem.

If there are many, many zombies, you'll want to skip the firearms and employ some sort of thermobaric - spray and pray SMG routines would result in disaster.

While your average FAE would probably work great, considering it would probably liquify most any brains in the area, who would s&p? I mean, really?

[Jim_Jude]

If these are fresh zombies than there will be arterial spray, but if they're more than a few hours old than it will be coagulated.

Unless, of course they're 28 Days/Weeks Later zombies who aren't dead, just infected with the Rage Virus.

Blunt trauma weapons(Crowbar, baseball/cricket bat, section of pipe, etc) will involve less risk than a machete or other edged weapons.

Arterial spray???
Zombie = Dead.
Dead = NO CARDIAC ACTIVITY.
No cardiac activity = no blood pressure.

Now, venous pressure? whether lividity sets in or not... who the fuck knows or really cares? If not, there may be splash... but NO SPRAY.

Keep watching those movies, kiddo.

[Neildo]

alright, bad choice of wording then. splash, or splatter. a rotten infected spurt of gore with every hack and slash. kill it with fire. or maybe acid. i'm tellin ya though, chainsaw to the face.

[USMC0351]

Why not a trench spike? It's a simple 10'' to 11'' spike with a brass knuckle grip what was designed for going through steel helmets during WWI. You wouldn't have to worry about the edge of a blade getting stuck, it can penetrate a human skull easily, and you can feed them a right cross to back them off a bit.

As far as weapons, I'd need something light and accurate. You're going for head shots mostly anyway. I'd be happy with a P90 w/ an aiming laser, especially in a CQC-type environment. Put it on semi-auto and tap their mellons with the 50 round mag.


BWT; chainsaws would be a shitty choice. They are loud, the chain will bounce if you slam it down on something, they're unwieldy, and they run out of gas eventually. Sure, it would be great splitting a zombie's head in with one, but why not just get a machete? Give them the quiet Jason Voorhees treatment?

[elipson]

Some people just love Army of Darkness too much to see a chain saw is just a poorly thought out choice.

You're not Ash!!! Accept it and move on!!