What should I do if zombies do indeed attack?

Question

just wondering...maybe where should I go and whatever.

Answer 1

I'm rewriting/reposting my answer from another similiar question I answered simply because this is too much info to actually type out a second time around. To start with, the walking dead are going to be subject to decay and degeneration of muscular tissue no matter what is reanimating them. Only very recently dead will be able to move anywhere near top speed, and any corpse older than three weeks or so won't reanimate at all due to the advanced state of decomposition.
#1. Armor is a must-have, and anyone who says otherwise is a fool. I can do tumble rolls in my plate armor, run backwards at top speed (while fighting someone giving chase), and sleep in it if need be. Well-crafted armor cannot be torn apart by human strength, even if it is leather armor. If you don't believe me just try to rip apart a piece of 12 oz. cowhide with your bare hands. Remember that zombies are not superhumanly strong due to their decomposition - it's just that they attack en masse and usually latch onto soft flesh. Steel, aluminum, and chainmail are more than enough to stop them.
#2. Find an attic with a pull-up ladder. Zombies are also not agile, so they don't climb well. Retreat when need be into an attic, pull up the ladder and pullstring, and brace the ladder across the joists with a two by four. No zombie can reach you, and if they do figure out where you are and invade the house in increasing numbers, simply exit onto the outside roof thru a quickly made hole, jump down, shut the doors, and torch the place.
#3. Guns are ok in a pinch, but a good sharp sword is better. Axes and warhammers take too long to recover with if your swing misses, and can become lodged in the skull (in the case of hammers). A war spear only has one mode of attack - penetration - and must destroy skull and brain in one thrust, and then recover for another strike, and that's too slow. Plus, it has a minimum range - my Celtic spear is five feet long, so any zombie closer than that is inside my range and difficult to effectively attack. The japanese katana is actually the perfect design for decapitation, as its curved design keeps it from becoming stuck in bone as it slices thru the soft tissue of the neck.
#4. Remember that the head/brain is the target if you are trying to destroy a zombie, but taking an easier shot can work just as well - lop off hands as they reach for you, hamstring legs as they step forward, sever spines at the lower lumbar area if you can get behind them - a zombie with no hands cannot grab, a zombie with a crippled leg musculature cannot walk, and a zombie with a severed spine can do little of anything. Of course, a zombie without a head or viable brain cannot do anything at all.
#5. Keep on the move - never get surrounded - and change direction often. Even slow-movers will home in on your position or course eventually. Drink only bottled water, and only eat canned goods - you never know what might be carrying the source of "plague". Keep a good supply of antibiotics on hand, fever reducers, and a good first aid kit with emphasis on wound care and disinfection.
#6. Remember that if you can last just two weeks the danger level drops dramatically - after two weeks even the "newly dead" will have decomposed to the point where you can run rings around them, and any dead older than that will probably be literally falling apart. Never try to "blend in" with them - they can smell your sweat and blood, and hear your heartbeat. Everything about you screams "Fresh Meat! Buffet Table Open!" - and if you are right in amongst them then you are surrounded and easy prey.
#7. Never put your trust in deep water. A zombie doesn't need to breathe and can't drown, so they can walk across to you on the bottom. An island is therefore a deathtrap, as they can easily surround it en masse. Unless, and only unless, it is in a very deep channel with very fast moving water on all sides. The force of fast moving water can easily sweep any human off their feet and carry them downstream - it can do the same for a zombie.
#8. A reanimated animal zombie is still susceptible to the same effects of decomposition as a human is - but may be faster initially - a zombie dog less than three days dead will probably retain anywhere from 85% to 95% of its speed and power, but will slow down dramatically as decay starts to set in to the musculature. Also remember that rigor mortis will affect any new zombie for the first eight to ten hours after death, and that is the best time to "put them down".
Happy Hunting!

Answer 2

Go to the nearest sporting goods store and load up on ammo. If you don't have a gun grab a shotgun or few. Also a hockey or football helmet and baseball bats. Go to the hardware store and grab plywood, 2x4's and nails to board up your home, along with an axe or two. Drive to the nearest grocery store and ransack the place for batteries, lighters, newspapers, dried and canned goods and bottled water. I'd grab a sh*tload of beer, liquor and cigarettes while I was at it. Or if you live near a Walmart number 1 & 3 can be done simultaneuously, then hit the nearest gas station and fill up your tank and quite a few gas cans.
If you had enough time or guts and knew where one was I'd "trade" a car for a truck, preferably a half ton 4x4 with a snow plow.

Either go home and board the place up or hightail it out to the middle of nowhere, like Montana or Central Canada where there are barely any people.
If anyone tries to stop you or make you pay shoot them in the knee with the shotgun.

Answer 3

lol well know you might want to start getting fit so you can beat them up also make sure you know where the gun shop is, buy a long sword and learn how to swing it keep water and food in a backpack and run into the woods as the zombies will go where the most people are but youll have to be careful there in case the zombies have bite any animals which would move faster than the human type zombies!!

Answer 4

Try to get somewhere without windows and with at least two ways in or out, but not underground (that never ends well in the movies for some reason), and make sure you're well armed with both shotguns and blunt weapons, like baseball bats. :) You also might want to pack a "survival kit" with candles, lighters, canned food, first aid kit, etc...or you could stop watching zombie movies and playing Resident Evil...

Answer 5

Well, if the world is anything like Dungeons and Dragons...you should find a high level paladin or a cleric to turn undead. If you can't find one of them, get a nice fighter or spellcaster to destroy them for you. Holy water also helps with a nice d6 damage...Also, I am assuming it is just human zombies so their challenge rating isn't too high, just pick up a nice big object and hit it hard enough and eventually you can destroy it (sharp objects work best though) Good luck, happy hunting!

Answer 6

Hmmm... maybe they were just kidding about it. I really don't think it's a zombie attack.. but it's kindda weird beacuae sept 13, 2001 have past already...

Answer 7

Oh my god! I just asked this question a second ago!
I say you should hit the sporting goods store right away and get lots of weapons, then go hide at the mall.....no wait that doesn't work....maybe get supplies and get on a boat....but with whom?
In the meantime I've been practicing at the arcade playing House of the Dead....I'll be ready!

Answer 8

Zombies only attack if their master sets them to attack. Then, the trick is to send them back to attack their master. Just convince them that their master did them a wrong turn to make them into zombies, and they really ought to be mad at their master. Make them understand that their master is keeping them slaves and they need to destroy him in order to be free. Give them food so that they'll have the energy to go back to their master and attack him. Make sure the path is clear between them and their master, and stand back!
When reasoning with zombies, keep it short and sweet, and use plenty of emotion. They function on about the intellectual level of small children.

Answer 9

do exactly what they do in zombie movies... except never look back or try to save someone... or even better stop watching zombies movies and you dont have to worry about a thing.

Answer 10

I was never much of a survivalist. I would go to the nearest drug store and stock up on Tylonol PMs, then head home and make myself a coctail and see how many bottles I can empty before I pass out...