whats your style going to be?

[bandits1]

Lol @ homelitexl thinking a coat or two of paint on an old shed is going to save him from a nuclear blast.

[Dave Of The Dead]

yes it will lead abosorbs radiation i know that

A lead vest will protect you from the small radiation that you experience when you go get X-Rays done. But a bit of lead paint will not absorb the radiation of a nuclear blast. If you really want to get to know what a nuke will do, here's these statistics:

THERMAL EFFECT............................................ RADIUS IN MILES
.................................................. ....1megaton......................10 megaton
Retinal spot burns..................................200.0+..... ....................200.0+
Visible charring to some paper and cloth.....11.0.............................30.0
Ignition of dry leaves..............................11.0.......... ...................26.0
1st degree skin burns..............................11.0........... ..................25.0
Ignition of inky parts of dry newspaper.......11.0.............................2 2.0
2nd degree skin burns.............................10.0............ .................22.0
Ignition of dry grass................................9.3.......... ....................23.0
Visible charring of unpainted wood.............8.4.............................. 20.0
Ignition of light blue cotton bedspread........8.2.............................. 20.0
3rd degree skin burns..............................8.0............ ..................19.0
Ignition of dry pine needles.......................7.0................. ............16.0
Ignition of cotton Venetian blind tape.........6.5.............................16.0
Ignition of brown cardboard box.................6.2........................... ..13.0
Ignition of khaki cotton shirt......................6.0.................... .........15.0
Ignition of new blue denim.........................5.4................. .............15.0
Ignition of new white typing paper..............5.3............................ .11.0



Thats just the blast though and worse effects come after. Wind patterns can blow radiation hundreds of miles. I read somewhere, I have yet to dig through my books to find it again, that it takes several feet of concrete to protect you from nuclear radiation. Lead paint isn't going to cut it my friend. You'll be suffering from radiation poisoning just like everyone else.

[bandits1]

...maybe he'll kill the radiation with his chainsaw.

[homelitexl]

waatever i know where a cold war nuke shelter is anyway

[bandits1]

Is it coated with lead-based paint? I heard that helps.

[CAVU45]

Yep, I'm sure the lead based paint will help stop the radiation from fallout. Just think, if homelite ate the lead paint he'd be radiation proof and could actually go outside with no fear of exposure.

[mattifikation]

Something tells me he's already acquired that benefit.

[kiltedninja]

I personally hope I don't live long after Zday so I don't have to do a lot of planning. Never mind, I'll just make it up as I go along.

[Bob]

Many of my generation are lead plated on the inside.
Our homes were painted with lead based paint.
Our water came in through lead pipes or pipes soldered with lead.
Our model paint had lead in it.
We should be impervious to radiation.

If lead is so fracking bad for you why are there so many old people still hanging around?

[homelitexl]

yeah and f asbestos is so bad why am i still breeding i mean breathiing

[Dave Of The Dead]

You have a 50-50 chance with that kind of stuff. Either you get cancer or your don't. I'm sure most of my surviving will pretty much be improv like KiltedNinja said. Thats pretty much what I do on a day to day basis anyway.

[kiltedninja]

My guiding phrase in life is 'when all else fails, improvise.'

Improvising is my life, I'm good at doing it, if anyone can really be good at making it up as you go.

[Dave Of The Dead]

I think thats is the same thing as "Go with the flow" or "Live in the moment" which is just a little more optimistic than your motto, but still the same concept.

[kiltedninja]

Pretty much dude, it's just the same, but a little less optimistic. But I've always been a bit more cynical than I should be, so it's all good.

[homelitexl]

haha mie all runs off tobaco alchohal sex and fiearms

[Bob]

I have not smoked in almost ten years, gave up dipping, cigars, pipe, and chew before that...
I miss cigarettes more than all the rest combined.

[homelitexl]

to mecigarates are best

[ZedHunter]

If we were only THAT lucky...

[homelitexl]

what are you talkin bout

[Dave Of The Dead]

I think a lot of us would just sit in a safe place and pick off the zombies that happen to wander up to our hideout. Thats a pretty realistic scenario for most of us I think.

[kiltedninja]

I know for a fact I wouldn't want to be in the more populated parts of the city when the fan meets the shit. I'd like to be close to my house, by extension, close to my uncle's, which means close to my guns.

[Dave Of The Dead]

Amen, I'm a little worried though that everyone else around this area will start to go Rambo on everything. I mean here in Indiana, we a gun for every man, woman, child, dog, cat, and fish. I don't know how I'll be feeling in the first hours when I start toward my hideout with all these hicks running around with firearms.

[kiltedninja]

My style is going to be dazed and con-fvcking high.:lol:

No but in all seriousness, I'd probably end up with my best friend and (soon to be, hopefully) girlfriend at my uncle's house, boarded up and shooting zombies, at least in the beginning.

[Dave Of The Dead]

Yeah, its going to be so tough for me. I'm picking up 4-5 girls (because my only real friends are girls) and heading to a warehouse to hunker down. Not to mention I have dated all of them, 2 are Bi, and we all have had on and off flings since I left my fiance. Only thing that will suck is the monthly monster.

[kiltedninja]

Stock up on Midol, lot's and lots of it. And just for good measure, a little more of it.

I've known the girl for a while, and she gets it bad.

My plan for then is going to be hide, and hide well.

[Sammo909]

Unfortunately I'm in the middle of a large urban area and my current home will be nigh indefensible so I may have to go rooftop camping. Where I work has a large flat roof connected to neighbouring stores, with some camping supplies and maybe a few potted veg. it could be fairly comfortable. Though if I was stuck there for years I might just go insane.

Keep a light pack with me at all times or settle in for the long haul, hard to decide. I think I'd rather lock myself in somewhere secure and wait for cabin fever to set in.

[homelitexl]

yeah that monthly monster sucks i tried to take my ex once to the movies when it had visiteder and it was awful ive never seen anyone who swore that much inmy life plus she kept punching me the whole time.:x

i think me and my current gf are just going to lye low for a little while

[kiltedninja]

Homelite you've basically got spelling down, now you just need grammar and you can graduate from first grade.

[DeAdLY SiNZz]

kilted give the lil guy a break ya know he's been in hte first grad for 8 years now, i think one more yea and he will move on lol!!! :lol:

parkour all the way man

[kiltedninja]

Parkour is sick, but can you do anything with a rucksack on your back and a weapon as well?

If I were to use parkour, it would be for scouting ahead with my lightest gear, and only my rifle and pistol.

[hotlead]

I think parkouring (is that the adjective for it? )would be severely hampered by a rifle and ruck, you'd probably get the most out of it with just a pistol and belt rig with mags and an "assault knife" ( get it, inside joke ).

Yeah, homelites' spelling has much improved in the last week or two, hooked on phonics is working fine for him. Now to get to the grammar and punctuation tapes, and you'll be all set.

[kiltedninja]

I'm fixin to get a bayonet for my AK, and a bayonet lug. I think that would be awesome.

[bandits1]

parkour all the way man
I think the use of parkour is best avoided unless absolutely needed in an emergency, and then only by those well practiced in it. The guys in the YouTube videos have probably been doing it for years -- most other humans haven't. Shouldn't risk unnecessary injury when there aren't any hospitals around.

Still, pretty cool to watch clips of the "pros" doing it. I'd enjoy seeing a video of noob parkour practitioners crashing and burning...but without the 10184 zombies eating their broken bodies afterwards.

[Dave Of The Dead]

Doing that shit in the ZPAW is on par with trying to skydive without an instructor or backup chute. If something goes wrong, you're ****ed.

[kiltedninja]

I can't tell you how many times I mis-stepped this weekend and almost ate it with my pack on. Rocks, dirt, a heavy pack and a lot of walking make for some carelessness, so I'd recommend not doing parkour unless you're some sort of professional, and acting as a scout.

[Dave Of The Dead]

Again, as a scout, I would surely recommend messenger bags. They bring the load down closer to the ground, making your center of gravity lower. It's harder to lose your balance and the load can shift with your movements.

[kiltedninja]

My one complaint with Messenger bags is capacity. I'm looking at getting one though.

I've always used a backpack for that sort of thing, but a messenger bag might be a good one as well.

[Evil Joe]

I dont know what they are called but ive seen pouches like that. they attach to the belt and are around the same size. also if you really wanted you could attach a strap for your gun (feel free to call me a uneducated dick but i have no gun experience)

[bandits1]

The little girl in the Tim Burton movie "Coraline" used a messenger bag when she went to save her parents and the three little ghost kids from her evil mom. It came in real handy. She even had to throw it to knock down some evil bats(or whatever those things were) that stole something from her.

Good call.

[bandits1]

I dont know what they are called but ive seen pouches like that. they attach to the belt and are around the same size. also if you really wanted you could attach a strap for your gun (feel free to call me a uneducated dick but i have no gun experience)
You talking about a bag kinda like this?:

http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/4992/imagegjz.jpg

[Evil Joe]

yes but a bit bigger

i just had a thought you could easily just convert a messenger bag (or shoulder bag if your like me) to go on a belt. take the strap off and attach a few belt loops.

BTW i would dismatele my bunk-bed and use the metal frame to board up the big frount window, close all the shutter, borad-up the remaining windows and loot the naibors houses for food. later on i would fortify other houses in my area loot my friends guns (lol) and get my dad to set up a bunch of cameras all over the place and every now and then move to a different fort.

[kiltedninja]

A recommendation. Put the boards on the outside of your house, use big sheets of plywood, and wood screws.

Don't loot your neighbours, they might have a bigger gun than you.

Also, I'd recommend that you continually fortify one fort, instead of constantly moving.

[Stankynuts]

ok when it comes down to zombies or the rebel people(think of dotd 78)

would you want to be guns a blazin and loud with more people who are equally the same, clumsy/dumb with no tactical inteligence but with guns and alot of people, or quiet/stealthy with little or no gun usage(cloak and dagger ideal)


i would want the cloack and dagger ideal....in fact i dont plan on even getting a gun after the outbreak...well...maybe a rifle...

What the **** would a cloak do other then get snagged on stuff? And you expect to take out a looter that is shooting at you with out a gun? Good luck with that dude.

Oh and who do you think you are a kilted ninja?

[Darkness]

"The term 'Cloak and Dagger' refers to a stealth style of fighting. Moving in the dark, silently, like a spy or secret agent."

[Trumble0]

A recommendation. Put the boards on the outside of your house, use big sheets of plywood, and wood screws.

Don't loot your neighbours, they might have a bigger gun than you.

Also, I'd recommend that you continually fortify one fort, instead of constantly moving.

My dad was watching NOTLD '68 with me and he frames houses for a living, meaning he builds the skeleton of the house on the foundation and puts in staircases windows, plywood siding, flooring, and plywood roofing it's actually OSB that he uses, Plywood is a cheaper material. but He was saying with the way the zombies were just Pushing against the boards Ben nailed he should have nailed them acrossed the outside jam since the zombies would have to break the boards in half, rather than just hitting them hard enough to back the nails out of the doorjams on the inside.

[Bob]

To some of us who grew up around construction that seems obvious but to office weenies that would be a revelation.

[Darkness]

*Darkness likes to build things.* :)

"That's why I would find a good place to fortify and create a fort. Because, my style would 'build a big wall, and hide behind it.', and I know I can." :lol: :)

[Birdman44]

To some of us who grew up around construction that seems obvious but to office weenies that would be a revelation.

Idk, seams to me like it would kind of be common sense more than anything. But which way would you face the grain? I would think that the grain of the wood should run horizontal so if the zombies did break it in half you would wind up with two bars of wood instead of swinging doors essentially.

[hotlead]

Idk, seams to me like it would kind of be common sense more than anything. But which way would you face the grain? I would think that the grain of the wood should run horizontal so if the zombies did break it in half you would wind up with two bars of wood instead of swinging doors essentially.

It depends on the shape of the window, you want the lumber spanning the shortest distance.

[Bob]

Most commercial wood found in residential construction is oriented so you would not have to worry about grain.
I say most only because you just never know.

[Trumble0]

If I have Advanced Notice of a zombie outbreak and alot of time on my hands before they shamble here... Definitely going with some of the pressure treated 4x4s bolted through the outside wall acrossed the windows with threaded rod and Nuts. I doubt Anything short of a person with a Chainsaw or Axe could get Past those. It's amazing how fragile wood can be, but how strong it can be at the same time.

[Dave Of The Dead]

I am going to wrap the entire first floor of my house with mooring line. Lets see them get past that!

[homelitexl]

im going to coat the outside in prticle board and then coat that in razorwire, which willhave a layer f barbwire outside it

[Trumble0]

im going to coat the outside in prticle board and then coat that in razorwire, which willhave a layer f barbwire outside it

Bahaha, why particle board? By not Plywood or OSB, when you like spit on particle board it starts to disintegrate. I like the Concertina wire idea though. Teacher of mine was in the Marines in Beirut and said they used to play volleyball and every once in awhile it would get stuck in the concertina wire and whoever hit it last had to go get it out.... OUCH!:loon:

[Birdman44]

It depends on the shape of the window, you want the lumber spanning the shortest distance.

Yeah I'de say that sounds right.

[kiltedninja]

I know a little about building, and I'll tell you that when boarding up a window, use screws, since they're tougher to pull out. Unless you don't have a drill, then stick with nails.

[homelitexl]

because the particle board only has to hold till the rest is finished when the wire is done it should hold back everthing

[Dbuhos]

F...yeah sneaking whit an sword,but zombies can still smeel don't they..ehhhh.
Probabily going to the old back decapitation.

[Dave Of The Dead]

I don't know what the eff you just said, sir.

[bandits1]

I wouldn't be surprised if Dbuhos and homelitexl are friends IRL.

[CAVU45]

Bahaha, why particle board? By not Plywood or OSB, when you like spit on particle board it starts to disintegrate. I like the Concertina wire idea though. Teacher of mine was in the Marines in Beirut and said they used to play volleyball and every once in awhile it would get stuck in the concertina wire and whoever hit it last had to go get it out.... OUCH!:loon:

Concertina or barbed wire is easy to defeat. Razor wire on the other hand digs into the skin and doesn't let go until forcibly pulled out. There are more than a few of us who carry scars from getting hung up on our own wire in the middle of the night.

[hotlead]

I wouldn't be surprised if Dbuhos and homelitexl are friends IRL.

Probably cousins........

[kiltedninja]

I was thinking cousin/brother or something like that.

[Dave Of The Dead]

Probably both...

[kiltedninja]

Yeah, Cousin/Brother, the same thing. I wonder, do they call him uncle dad or uncle pa?

[Darkness]

"Homelitexl's Family Tree has nothing to do with this Topic. Chill please." :naughty:

[kiltedninja]

My style is going to be very different than my method of eating spicy food.

[slayer1222]

mine will be like what i use at the park at night cloak and dagger :evil:

[beyerwrestler]

My style is gonna be the one where I dont die or become infected. Very original style right there :drool:

[kiltedninja]

My style is gonna be Muay Thai with shinguards from police riot gear. Like these.
http://www.galls.com/style.html?assort=general_catalog&style=TE163&cat=3035

[Spuzmanx]

lots of drugs.....gonna need lots and lots of drugs O.0

[kiltedninja]

Have fun with that.

I think that cloak and dagger operations are going to be the best way to go.

[ZombieBruce]

cloak and dagger.
Ill have killed a dozen zeds before they realize im there with a bow and arrow.

[kiltedninja]

I'll have killed dozens of zombies, pillaged a village, and kicked a bear in the nuts before they even realize that zombies have died.:lol:

[homelitexl]

nuke it til it glows

[Evil Joe]

Trip wires tied into grenade pins would do better than land mines. Land mines can only kill the unlucky, trip wires will catch any zombie that crosses your perimeter. They're too dumb to avoid them, after all.

Plus, if you trip a zombie, it would probably take it awhile to get back up again. Especially if it's muscular system was heavily damaged by shrapnel. I know zombies don't feel pain, but they are still subject to simple mechanics.

I've thought about this alot and here is what I have come up with(this is for if you are inside).

Cut a hole from the floor to around about head/neck hight then put two pulleys in each bottem corner(these would do http://www.indiamart.com/sonibrothers/pcat-gifs/products-small/Pulleys.jpg but anything you can get your hands on will do) then attach the grenade/s at around head hight and connect the wire going though the pulleys. In theory when the zombie trips the wire the grenade/s go of at head hight and kills the zed better than if it where on or near the floor.
Feel free to call me a inexperienced noob but this as I see it is better than a normal trip wire grenade.

[neoanderson9318]

I would go with stealth. Although I would have a "small army" with me. Only about 3 other people though, who are skilled with guns in case we need them. I would also board myself up in my farmhouse with my .22 Magnum rifle, with a high-powered scope. I'm more of the marksman type. :)

[CAVU45]

"Homelitexl's Family Tree has nothing to do with this Topic. Chill please." :naughty:

Even if we were to cut the branches off to use as clubs? Wait, his family tree pretty much goes straight up doesn't it. Never mind.

[CAVU45]

I've thought about this alot and here is what I have come up with(this is for if you are inside).

Cut a hole from the floor to around about head/neck hight then put two pulleys in each bottem corner(these would do http://www.indiamart.com/sonibrothers/pcat-gifs/products-small/Pulleys.jpg but anything you can get your hands on will do) then attach the grenade/s at around head hight and connect the wire going though the pulleys. In theory when the zombie trips the wire the grenade/s go of at head hight and kills the zed better than if it where on or near the floor.
Feel free to call me a inexperienced noob but this as I see it is better than a normal trip wire grenade.

Why not skip the Rube Goldberg contraption and simply string Claymores?

[homelitexl]

yeap[ adfasgdfga wait what was i gonna type:puke:

[Surviving ZDay]

Id stick to the shadows, use my bat and Hunter's Bow to get to my boat, fill her fulla supplys, and head out to sea. Zombies can't swim.

[homelitexl]

Nuke it til it glows

[Kenya]

Anyone who wants to survive would pick large army with guns blazing and super flying submarine tanks. Sure you will have a huge army to feed, but just do as the barbarians did. Pillage all the areas you take, then move on to the next.

[neoanderson9318]

That's what I was thinking, but I'm not REALLY a people person, so I would just take a small group.

[homelitexl]

nuke it ......

[Birdman44]

nuke it ......

Hell yeah.

[homelitexl]

BIIIIIIIIIIIIIRd man lol hell yes nukeit till the bastards glow

[Noc]

If you guys have any nukes when you are done, maybe you could you ship them over to Australia? It's kinda hard to get nuclear weapons over here.

[Bob]

What!
You mean you don't know at least 2 people who have one in their garage.

[homelitexl]

i dont but if i join the army i mite be abkle t o find owt were theire stored

[Bob]

No need, my uncle Jim has about 4 pounds of plutonium in his basement.

Ha Ha made you think.
We don't have basements round heyar.

[Tennessee Zombie]

Keep to the shadows, don't make any noise & stay alive!!

[Birdman44]

What!
You mean you don't know at least 2 people who have one in their garage.

I got 2 in my garage :saw: Gotta love America :lol: And to Noc, sadly we will use them all either on us and/or our enemies (zombies, terrorists, commies, etc)

[homelitexl]

haha..........

[CityOfChicago]

Nuke it til it glows

This applies, you realize, to your two little nads as well? Hard to survive if all your hair an teeth fall out before you die of 36 kinds of cancer.

[Unassigned]

This applies, you realize, to your two little nads as well? Hard to survive if all your hair an teeth fall out before you die of 36 kinds of cancer.

Not to mention that anyone not securely bunkered within oh, say, 1,000 miles is boned from nuclear fallout... So you are not only needlessly killing other possible survivors, but you are also losing potential resources in said area when they are obviously limited in the post-outbreak world.

[kiltedninja]

My style is going to be most likely how it has been lately, angry and destructive.

[homelitexl]

still say nuke it till i glows

[zephyr]

i would be remembered by
"outta my way or i'll blow you away"

[kiltedninja]

Very similar to my "Angry and Destructive" style.

[homelitexl]

nukalicios

[Undead Jackal]

I suck at surviving so much I'll probably be the zombie you all shoot:-(

[mattifikation]

You're not dead, so apparently you don't suck all that bad.

[kiltedninja]

You may be surprised Jackal, survival is alot of luck and resourcefulness, if you're good with those, then you might be okay.

[SWAT Zombie]

i'd say my style would be stick to the shadows as much as possible. shoot only when i have to shoot (with a silencer if available) and blow stuff up only when i have to. avoid getting close to zombies as much as possible and engage in hand to hand (armed or unarmed) only when trapped and i have no firearms or ammo. and never ever interact in anyway whatsoever with the undead that doesn't involve swift, effective violence. no capturing to study, no sticking them in a fight cage and staging zombie wrestling bouts, no tying them up and having your picture taken with them and definately no spooning with them, i don't care how cold the nights get. if you're not neutralising them, just avoid them. and when you do neutralise them just do it, don't revel in it.
:guns::shotg::machgun2::axe::saw:: = :zom2:

[kiltedninja]

Fast and violent is the best kind of violent. Guerrilla tactics are gonna be the way to do shit in ZPAW.

[Onslaught]

Well, I'd say that sticking to the shadows is the clear winner here. Ha, it isn't even kind of close. Maybe there will be more survivors than I thought.

They had better stay away from my tactical bacon.

[Jazza11]

I would rather be in a small group because its easier to keep controlled and calm and supplys would last longer you would not be able to fight army sized zombies but if you had a group of say 10 you would have a good chance of survival then a army of 100 people i say

[angekfire]

Well, I'd say that sticking to the shadows is the clear winner here. Ha, it isn't even kind of close. Maybe there will be more survivors than I thought.

With so many people trying to stick to the shadows, hopefully we don't run out of shadows to hide in :lol:

I'll probably try to avoid them as much as possible. They can't kill me if I'm not near them!

[kiltedninja]

Well, Angekfire, there's plenty of shadows around here anyway, but up in Ottawa the story might be different.

That and I don't intend to literally stay in shadows, so much as out of the eyes of any zombies and/or folks who mean to do me harm.

[AZombieAttack]

Seems alot of us are actually in agrement for once.... go figure...

[mattifikation]

You're right. I'm throwing a wrench in it.

I'm gonna blow stuff up... frequently. The most important thing in life is how much noise you make at the end of it.

[homelitexl]

nuke it til it glows

[Bob]

Take an honor guard to hell with you.

[homelitexl]

yep. ... ...., . . . .. ....

[angekfire]

Well, Angekfire, there's plenty of shadows around here anyway, but up in Ottawa the story might be different.

That and I don't intend to literally stay in shadows, so much as out of the eyes of any zombies and/or folks who mean to do me harm.

I know, I was joking.

I think people from Ottawa are generally well prepared for the zombie apocalypse. We are used to dealing with zombies on a daily basis already, the city is swarmed with them. We call them "politicians" and "government employees".

[kiltedninja]

That made me :lol:. I deal with alot of stupid people and just general idiots, but never 'zombies', and I think I'm lucky because of it.

I'm a fast person, I take pride in my speed, and I'd use it to my advantage in ZPAW.

[43911]

Hey

(im new here btw)

i'd have to go stealthy as getting guns isn't easy in the uk so it would be a case of a baseball bat and running and hiding. Until i could find military/armed police (if there are any) and wait till i can get my hands on a gun (probs pistol as its light) just incase but the aim would be to stay stealthy as ive never shot a pistol.

[kiltedninja]

It's easier to get a gun than you think. It's just not easy to do it legally.

I'm not from the UK, but that's what my friends from the UK tell me.