Hastily formed militia. What role will you play?

[gama169]

I'd sign on as a Rifleman. I'm a bit of a scaredy cat. So I'd never be able to become a melee. An officer? My random peronality makes me seem totally, well, not suited for a leader. Although I feel I am. So no officer for me. Tecnician? Yeah, sure. I get a compter crash every other month. Marksman? I've never actually used a gun before. 'm a bi of a quick learner at things, but I don't think I could get a super scope shot any time soon. Same for Sniper. Driver? I just got a permit this year. I don't think I'd be good in a dangerous situation. Almost no exp. in driving. Machine Gunner? A little heavy for my tastes. And as for officer, I just don't want to. So yeah, that really just leaves me with Rifleman.

[Birdman44]

Ill probably wind up being that too gama. Riflemen is what we need though for when the marksmen feel like the zeds are getting a little too close, which is what i hope to be, I'de like to have a nice big 7.62 to punch things with :evil:

[homelitexl]

while your getting attacked ill be on the roof sniping them off enjoying an ice cold beer with bob and vj

[Bob]

VJ does not drink, he is an excellent friend to have cuz there is never an argument about who is going to stay sober and drive. I just picked up another hundred 308 yesterday, going to do it again today. If I have time I intend to load another 500 45's.

I saw a 20 pack of Federal Hydrashock priced at $46.
I did not type that wrong it is forty six dollars.
Talk about price gouging.

9mm, 40 cal and 45acp are hard to find even on line.

[Noc]

I just got my Heavy Rigid license so i can be driving big trucks now:clap:

[homelitexl]

thanks for the warning bob well at least that means he won't wreck as easy as we would.

[Bob]

Homelite
Exactly and if he gets pulled everyone does not go to jail...

[ZombieKat]

I'm not sure which one I would choose. Its between melee & sniper. I chose melee because I think I have good reflexes, I'm pretty agile & I know a couple of moves(this is a result of growing up with big brothers) . And sniper because I have a good shot with paintball guns.

[kiltedninja]

A paintball gun is a little different than a rifle. I shoot a Lee Enfield and an M1A at least twice a month, I'm accurate to about 150yds, a little further on good days.

A good sniper could take my M1A and stretch the limits of it's effective range with the proper scope.

As for Melee, having good reflexes is a good thing, but all the moves in the world won't matter if you can't use them when you've got adrenaline flowing. And trust me, in a fight, adrenaline does flow.

It would be up to you though, if you think that you can do the job.

[Birdman44]

@ZombieKat

You may be a little more familiar with cleaning a gun because of paintball but shooting them are two very different things. I'de suggest hitting a range one day and trying out some guns, it will probably be a good thing to do than just trusting with knowledge from paintball since there really isn't any walking in shots with rifles.

[hotlead]

A paintball gun is a little different than a rifle.

Yes, quite a bit different.

If you have someone you know who owns a rifle, not just someone who has firearms but someone you really trust, get them to take you out to the range one weekend. If you don't know anyone, look up your local range and see what classes they offer, most beginning/familiarization seminars are free. Take a friend with you so you don't get uncomfortable. I suggest a bolt action .22lr for the first few times, until you've got the fundamentals down.

[Bob]

Aww screw that, he's a paintballer.
He can handle pain, start him with a Ruger #1 chambered in .458 Lott.

Knock Knock
I am just kidding, he would develop a terminal case of flinchitis.

Seriously having played several years of paintball with everything from a Grey Ghost pump to a DM5 it is very different.

[Dave Of The Dead]

Yeah, if you have no real life experience or training in sniping, its a very tough feat. Saying you have shooting experience because of playing paintball is just one step above playing Halo.

[kiltedninja]

I'm slightly more trained than the average teenager, because my dad's an officer in the Army, but I can't be a sniper, that kind of range, even with my M1A is something I can't accomplish with what training I have.

However, come Zday, the range at which the enemy is dangerous will be severely lessened. Assuming that we're only fighting Zack. In other sorts of defence, a sniper would be useful, someone who could take a target with a headshot at five hundred yards could be helpful.

I'd still have to choose scout, because I can cover twenty miles on my feet in five hours. Throw some rest in there, some food, and I can go all day, even with a pack.

[Dave Of The Dead]

Amen, I'm sure I'll be right there with you. The scope on my 30-30 is set to about 250 yrds so I can look for any trouble up ahead.

[Gemtech Oasis]

Im a good shot. Sniper Id guess.

[3030]

Dave: I'm not so sure about setting the scope of a .30-30 for 250 yards. That is really stretching the caliber past it's breaking point. I wouldn't be attempting a shot with a .30-30 past 150 yards with practice. To each his own, but my mentality is that if it cant kill a deer at a certain range, dont try killing a man with it, dead or not.

Sort of forgot to add my role, well me and my buddy are both already branched from a larger militia. Right now we don't have the skills to be much else but infantrymen (he is Water Purification in the Army Reserves and I am going to Marines BCT this summer if the papers ever get filed). So if some stuff went down and we had to stay together with some other people, I guess he'd be a marksman (great shot out to around 200 yards with his .308, but not far enough to be a sniper) and I'd probably be a driver or a infantryman, because I don't have the resources to be a sniper.

[Sin]

I'd be a riflemen or a sniper. The fact is that by my standards teams of that low of a number an large enough group of zombies would get them all down. But I could be mis-reading and there could be more then I thought.

[kiltedninja]

The thing is man, can you get off a head shot at 150yds?
There's a reason I didn't choose sniper, my Lee Enfield can shoot that far, but I don't have a scope on it, and I'm not Vasily Zaytsev, so I can't iron sight a shot too well past two hundred.

[Bob]

Big difference in head shots on a piece of paper or shooting melons.
They don't jerk about randomly.

We need some new threads, thoughts and opinions of many people are buried in these mega-threads. No one reads more than the last couple of pages.

[hotlead]

I agree, Bob. I've made comments about it before.

[Dave Of The Dead]

Oops, did I say 250? I means my scope is set at 150. Either way, I have yet to even use the scope at the range.

[archivesofthedead]

I'd be best for recon or scout type work. I'm like a ninja, ya know?

[Dave Of The Dead]

I'd be best for recon or scout type work. I'm like a ninja, ya know?

Its the Indiana blood. It makes us super sneaky.

[Birdman44]

Haha, what does Jersey blood make me then?

[kiltedninja]

Irish maybe?

[homelitexl]

i find that offensive im irish and german and mostly irish

[ZombieKat]

@ZombieKat

You may be a little more familiar with cleaning a gun because of paintball but shooting them are two very different things. I'de suggest hitting a range one day and trying out some guns, it will probably be a good thing to do than just trusting with knowledge from paintball since there really isn't any walking in shots with rifles.

yeah I know thats why I said I have a good shot with paintball guns.
But I could learn with a rifle & beside I could modify the guns to shoot out fast enough to go through. I havent tried it but I'm pretty sure it could work right?

[ZombieKat]

A paintball gun is a little different than a rifle. I shoot a Lee Enfield and an M1A at least twice a month, I'm accurate to about 150yds, a little further on good days.

A good sniper could take my M1A and stretch the limits of it's effective range with the proper scope.

As for Melee, having good reflexes is a good thing, but all the moves in the world won't matter if you can't use them when you've got adrenaline flowing. And trust me, in a fight, adrenaline does flow.

It would be up to you though, if you think that you can do the job.




Yeah I gues your right on both. I think I'll re-consider to just melee because I think I could do better when my adrenaline starts flowing & there is no shooting range near were I live so I will hardly get any practice with actual rifles. And if I dont do a good job & I get bit you could shoot me ;-)

[kiltedninja]

Since we're going to the same place, I guess so. Unless you're not going to meet Hotlead in San Fran? I'm bringing beer.:drinking:

[hotlead]

Its the Indiana blood. It makes us super sneaky.

That's 'cause you guys don't have any trees to hide behind in Indiana, just corn, which is real noisy so you have to be sneaky.

[kiltedninja]

Haha, that's true.

As for the Irish thing, I'm Irish too, so it was a compliment, not an insult.

[homelitexl]

drunk or smart irish cause my family tends to lean toward the drunk side.

[ZombieKat]

Since we're going to the same place, I guess so. Unless you're not going to meet Hotlead in San Fran? I'm bringing beer.:drinking:


I would go with Hotlead if I could make it out of LA

[DeAdLY SiNZz]

Being a Sniper would be the best set up in a nice little spot pop some claymores up around you that way any zack decides to stumble your way he gets blown the hell up, but make sure you shoot him in the head to make sure, but jsut set up camp and starting popping some heads. yeeeehaaaaw

[Bob]

Alcohol was invented to keep the Irish from ruling the world.

[J Dub]

i guess with those to choose from i'd be in the melee.

i'd prefer sniper but i don't care much for the 300. out to 800 yards i'd take a 308 and past that the 338lapuamag, :evil:

[homelitexl]

can i be an astronaut cowboy fireman lol nah id be mellee or sniper.

[UseYourHeadAndYourMachtte]

i would be sniper or melle great at both just not at spelling

[kiltedninja]

What range can you accurately shoot at?

I can shoot accurately from point blank, to about 150 yds. I've never learned how to sight a scope, so even if I can shoot farther than that, I can only see my target at 150yds.

[J Dub]

What range can you accurately shoot at?

I can shoot accurately from point blank, to about 150 yds. I've never learned how to sight a scope, so even if I can shoot farther than that, I can only see my target at 150yds.

i am good for head shots out to 200 with the socom and could probably knock them down out to 400 with a center mass shot. my wife would probably be good for head shots out to 300 with the same, she can ring a 12x12 gong at 300 easily and continually (she has a far better eye than i). with her savage weather warrior all scoped out i'm betting she will be good for head shots out to 800 yards if we can find the right load.
my norc 1911a1 i can put together fist sized groups all day at 25yds, i can do the same with my 686 at 50 yards.
but this is all on our time at our leisure, under fire you could scrub a good part of that off.

[Dave Of The Dead]

Yeah, about 150 yrds with my rifle and a quarter of that or so with the pistols... except for my little .22 revolver. I never know which direction that one is going to fire in. :x

[kiltedninja]

That's still about forty yards with a pistol, which is a good shot. I dunno what range I'm accurate to with a pistol, never tested the range.

I prefer pistols, because I like to get right up in your face when I'm fighting, I'm a CQ fighter, maybe it's all the fistfights I've gotten into.

[homelitexl]

i used to be able to shoot a pistol a 100 yards on a spread pattern of a foot.

[Bob]

All bs aside I saw a silhouette shooter hit 10 out of 10 Rams at 100 yards with a 22 pistol.

I can't remember what my record is but I would always take down at least a couple of rams with a S&W 22A or a Ruger Hunter 22 auto.

[Birdman44]

I can get a good 3" group with a GLOCK 22 (.40S&W) from about 18 yards. Thats about it, peppered right around the Q. Dunno about rifle, never shot anything bigger than a .22lr in a rifle, and the longest range was about 40-50 yards, I was good enough at that though. Could definately take some head there. I mean uh, shoot heads at that range.

As for the alcohol, the plus besides keeping the Irish at bay is that it also keeps us germans content by giving us something to drink with our pretzels :lol:

[homelitexl]

thats what i was using a 22 ruger at o100 yds on an old kaiser car.

[Bob]

The guy I shoot with can regularly hit rams with a 1911 in 45acp.

[homelitexl]

does he have a scope on his gun.

[hotlead]

I wonder why anyone would want to be a "melee" guy ?

If you're within bad breath distance of a Z, then you or your leader screwed up. I understand that while patroling or clearing buildings it's a possibility, but I want to be as far away from my opponent as possible, and paying attention to what's going on around me keeps me from getting within arms reach of most dangers.

I just don't understand why someone would want get that close to any opponent, when a intercranial injection will relieve their copper and lead defficiencies.

[homelitexl]

its bacause i like chainsaws

[bandits1]

I wonder why anyone would want to be a "melee" guy ?

If you're within bad breath distance of a Z, then you or your leader screwed up. I understand that while patroling or clearing buildings it's a possibility, but I want to be as far away from my opponent as possible, and paying attention to what's going on around me keeps me from getting within arms reach of most dangers.

I just don't understand why someone would want get that close to any opponent, when a intercranial injection will relieve their copper and lead defficiencies.
Yup. If I'm handed an ax and shield when everyone else is handed a high-powered rifle, I'm going to seriously complain to management about the unfair and needlessly dangerous work-conditions.

[kiltedninja]

I'd do it. But I'd rather stay at a distance, preferably one where I can administer injections of lead and copper.

[Bob]

Who is going to fill the role of mutant hunter.
I don't know about you but if I see a zed that seems like he is out of the ordinary he is going to become a primary target.

[J Dub]

i'm in on the zombie hunter/killer role like a fat kid on a smartie :evil:

[hotlead]

Who is going to fill the role of mutant hunter.
I don't know about you but if I see a zed that seems like he is out of the ordinary he is going to become a primary target.

+1, the minute I see Big Daddy carrying a rifle or jackhammer, all efforts are on him.

[homelitexl]

use an rpg on him

[kiltedninja]

That's what I'd use Smirnoff for, I'd make a molotov cocktail/match head bomb.

I'm on the strange zombie killer/hunter list too.

[homelitexl]

i voluteer to be repopulater

[that1guy9645]

That's what I'd use Smirnoff for, I'd make a molotov cocktail/match head bomb.

I'm on the strange zombie killer/hunter list too.

Molotov + Zombie = very stupid idea

[kiltedninja]

Man, that's your first post and you didn't even use it well! But welcome to ATZ.

I'd use it, match heads, and... I'd do an experiment to see if I can replace diesel with alcohol in ANFO.

I'm the king of stupid ideas man.

[hotlead]

Kiltedninja, have you tried using M14 clips in your 2A1 SMLE yet ?

[kiltedninja]

No, I actually haven't. Next time I'm at my dad's, I'll have to try that out.

It's basically been established that I'd be a scout/hunter, I guess a ranger would be a good word for that. I'd be a ranger.

[Bob]

I have said it before but for the benefit of those who don't read the older parts of these mega-threads I would be the guy who pushes you into doing things you don't want to do.

[Dave Of The Dead]

I think I would be the level 14 rogue with a subclass as a swashbuckler... maybe a Ghost Faced Killer as my prestige class.....:lol:

But seriously, I would rather be a driver than anything else. Whether it would be to transport my squad or scout ahead, I've always been a good navigator and driver. Just need room for my rifle, pistol, and machete. Maybe a piss bottle for those long drives.

[homelitexl]

i volunteer to be a dozer operator.

[guinnessman]

I chose sniper, but I think what I'd do is find an experienced police officer/S.W.A.T./Ex-military to help me find what I'm best at. I think I could do well as a sniper, but it may not be what my "trainer" says. I noticed that sniper was tied for 1st place votes on the poll, and I'm wondering how many people put that from real experience or xbox live. Personally I've had alot more trigger time than most kids my age. Another part of being a sniper is knowing your gun. Snipers pefect their weapons to their personal settings, if that makes sense. You'd have to find a rifle, zero it, know how the scope works, and use up tons of ammo in the process to know how your breathing, and trigger pull act with the scope. I'm not just shooting my mouth off here, I know my gun and how I shoot with it, but how many other "snipers" do too? I'm also not trying to say I'm any more qualified for the role than anyone else here, this is plain curiosity.

[homelitexl]

well due to recent events i want to be sent on missions that are certain death, i aint got anyone waiting on me at home anymore and its better if i go than those of you with loved ones, that way i get to be a hero and you get to be with your loved ones, by the way i aint being suicidal me and autumn broke up again and im just saying that i would be a better pick for it than anyone else to bassicly be a rambo on the zeds asses:saw:

[NotoriousDIT]

did she get tired of your ignorance?

[homelitexl]

for one i aint ignorant two she said she needed time t think

[kiltedninja]

Notorious, I know you're as tired as hearing about bloody Autumn as the rest of us, but give the man his space to mope. Homelite, I understand how you're feeling, I just lost a girl I've been with for quite some time, but seriously, read what I'm saying. Shit man, they invented alcohol for more than keeping the Irish happy.

[Bob]

Time to think?
Think about what?
Did you propose or something?

[bandits1]

did she get tired of your ignorance?
Ahahahahaha!

homelitexl...condolences. Drink heavily.

[J Dub]

for one i aint ignorant two she said she needed time t think

:lol:

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/374/vadersnaps.jpg

[kiltedninja]

:lol: Jdub, that was great.

I still think that I could go for waffles.

[homelitexl]

Time to think?
Think about what?
Did you propose or something?

no i didnt propose she just texted me saying that one day and at this point screw it id rather kill my liver and take a few zeds out with me than be miserable.by that i mean drink til i puke

[Noc]

Now im not going to bombard you with cliches, im not going to say there are plenty more fish in the sea, im not going to say if you love her let her go, but what i will say is it's not the end of the world.

[Bob]

Take it from an old man.
It is important to be a "good breaker upper".
If you make her miserable you will never get to boink her friends.
On top of that you will get a reputation as a "bad breaker upper".
Girls don't want to casually date "bad breaker uppers" because it's not worth all the trouble at the end.

Now here is the real secret that no one has bothered to tell you.
The best way to get over a woman is to get in another woman.
(the real expression is "The best place to get over a woman is in the arms of another woman" but I like my way better)

[mattifikation]

Darkness is going to throw a FIT when she sees this thread.

I can't wait. :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

[homelitexl]

i know its gonna be funny, but thats what im gonna do.

[DarthJoe8]

:lol:

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/374/vadersnaps.jpg

:lol:.......

[The Voice Of Desperation]

I'd probably be some sort of technician. I never fired I gun in my life, but I like to think of my self as some sort of a people person. I also have minor medical skills and I'm really with good with all kinds of technology.

[UNDEAD FRED]

Just to change the subject matter a little, Everyone talks about thier skills, ect, but what exactly will this hastily formed militia's job will be. It is going to be run by the local athorities to search out and destroy the murading ghouls, and to set up, and provide protection at rescue stations, search for survivors, try to ID and collect information on the ghouls that they destroy to keep records of the people who died in this undead epidemic. I am just going by a Romero's dead scenerio.

[Darkness]

"You Were Warned Plenty!!"