where would you go?

[Tullaryx]

Any place that would be seen by the general public as a place to congregate in case of emergency are bad places to go to in case of a zombie outbreak. Some would say prisons should be included, but in reality prisons would be one of the very last places would go to for "shelter and protection". The stigma of it being a place to house criminals would deter a majority of people from heading for it. Really, the more isolated a destination one goes to the better. The less neighboring structures in the area the better.

[Deadman_Deluxe]

Anyone even considering poncing around in chainmail ... is an idiot. My advice would to any potential king arthurs would be to try "leather" ... mainly because it would be a lot easier to find and work with Even better if you know where to look = kevlar + leather + nomex

[EvilNed]

Ever tried chainmail, practiced in it or know anything about armor at all (in a general sense, that is)? If you're practiced in chainmail, it's ideal. There's noway you'll ever get surprised by a zombie bite on your torso, because there's noway a human can sink his teeth into that. Now, for an inexperienced person, it's a stupid idea. But then again, a tough leather jacket would also slow an inexperienced down.

[Danny]

both post are very true. id grab some police riot gear myself ,rick grimes style.

[FleshMask]

In the Zombie Survival Guide, The book said CHAINMAIL is a bad idea. -Makes alot of noise (and stealth and avoiding detection is better) -Slows down speed, and mobility -Chain Mail can stop bites, but surrounding zombies will pull that off you. You can't not survive with 3 or 4 zombies pulling at you with chainmail. Suit of armor makes you canned food. kevlar armor is no good for bites or pulling. The Zombie Survival Guide claim the best gear to roam about is. -Short hair -tight clothes (so no zombie can grip and hold down loose clothing) -Stealth (no rattling or jiggles) -Small light weight metal bracers for forearms and legs. -A bike is prefered over a car (car makes engine noise letting all zombies know it's supper-time, and rely on fuel) -Melee shovel, Machetees, long handled blade weapons are prefered over guns. (Guns are loud, and need ammo) The idea is to stealth and speed to avoid the undead masses, not loud, short fused fire power. Survival is the goal, not to conquer... The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks a good and entertaining read.

[EvilNed]

In the Zombie Survival Guide, The book said CHAINMAIL is a bad idea. -Makes alot of noise (and stealth and avoiding detection is better) -Slows down speed, and mobility -Chain Mail can stop bites, but surrounding zombies will pull that off you. You can't not survive with 3 or 4 zombies pulling at you with chainmail. Yes. An entertaining read. To bad the guy didn't check his facts. A leather jacket will also slow you down. But if you run around in it, you actually learn to handle it. Chainmail will only slow you down if you're not accustoumed to it. Anything else is bull****. I happen to know alot of about medieval and european armor and weapons, so I tell you this: With enough practice you can move effortless with chainmail. Makes noise? You can pad it. If you want to sneak in it, then you can sneak. Three or four zombies will always kill you. But chainmail definetly gives you a better chance of survival. Plate Mail is just stupid, as I mentioned above. The right kind of Scalemail. might work, tho. I'm sure you could go all out Cataphract, but eeeh, that'd take some training.

[Tullaryx]

In the Zombie Survival Guide, The book said CHAINMAIL is a bad idea. -Makes alot of noise (and stealth and avoiding detection is better) -Slows down speed, and mobility -Chain Mail can stop bites, but surrounding zombies will pull that off you. You can't not survive with 3 or 4 zombies pulling at you with chainmail. Suit of armor makes you canned food. kevlar armor is no good for bites or pulling. The Zombie Survival Guide claim the best gear to roam about is. -Short hair -tight clothes (so no zombie can grip and hold down loose clothing) -Stealth (no rattling or jiggles) -Small light weight metal bracers for forearms and legs. -A bike is prefered over a car (car makes engine noise letting all zombies know it's supper-time, and rely on fuel) -Melee shovel, Machetees, long handled blade weapons are prefered over guns. (Guns are loud, and need ammo) The idea is to stealth and speed to avoid the undead masses, not loud, short fused fire power. Survival is the goal, not to conquer... The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks a good and entertaining read. Yer preaching to the choir, my man. I have 4 copies of that book and each in varying degrees of wear and tear after many readings.

[KontamiNation]

I for one would realize the futility of fighting endless hordes with no chance of winning and pull a jihad on all of em'. Find some C4 somewhere and freefall into the biggest mob I could. Instant hero...

[Mike70]

i live in a very small town (approx 6,000 folks) so farm country and the woods are close in any direction you go. i'd probably head for the wild for a bit.

[FleshMask]

The key word here is practice. What seems heavy to us, would seem limber as hell to a celt, two millenia ago. You said to pad down chainmail to silence the noise... Now I ask... HAVE YOU TRIED TO MOVE IN CHAIN MAIL PADDED DOWN SO TIGHT IT WOULDN'T MAKE NOISE? If you said yes, you are lying. You wouldn't move well at all, not to mention attaching exposed part of glove-mail or waist line that can be pulled up with human hands and exposed. You're thinking of protection of bites.... You NEED to be thinking of protection from hands and pulling as well. Yer preaching to the choir, my man. I have 4 copies of that book and each in varying degrees of wear and tear after many readings. Yeppers, very good and logical read.

[EvilNed]

Argh, yer right. I have not tried. But wearing a simple shirt over your chainmail would stiffle some of the noise. If you move cautiously, and once again practice is the key, you can move pretty silently with chainmail. It would survive pulling as well, since the maximum amount of pulling would be done by two or three ghouls and in the later stage of an outbreak their muscles would be pretty weak. So, chainmail is still something I'd bring with me. Unless I could find myself some of that shark-protective mail, of course.

[Guru ofthe Dead]

Like minionzombie if I even got a "wiff" of the dead coming back I would have to clean myself then grab the weapons. Personally I would hit a Super Wal-Mart and also run for the countryside. Screw being in a small town or a large city. "We got to stay in the sticks man!!!"

[kar98k]

i'd find a gun... then id shoot some zombies with it