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Wrecked944 Wrecked944 is offline
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Aha !! The Omega Man !! I saw that as a kid and it scared the CRAP out of me - mucho ten year old nightmare paranoia stuff (one of my biggest fears as a kid was to have the whole world suddenly turn against me). I've been trying to recall the title for over a decade. Thanks !!

Now as for Zombies, I'd say first forget that they are zombies. For instance, if you can set yourself up in a location or situation where even the Marine Special Forces couldn't get you, then I think the Zombies would be SOL. For this kind of strategy, I think we can look to our own governments for answers. As an example, how has the US government planned for a post-apacalyptic world? Well, they built underground bunkers and missile silos with one massively protected entrance and stocked them with years worth of food, etc. Granted you don't get to snipe zombies unless you want to set up some sort of predator drone remote control thingie. And then since you can't really leave the fortress to refuel, you'd want one that was solar powered. But you would be pretty well protected.

But this leads to another question. How long should we assume that zombies are going to be alive and roaming the countryside? If it will only be, say, 28 days, then the missile silo would be perfect. You can spend a month catching up on all of those missed episodes of "Sex in The City" (oops, I meant to say "Monster Garage") and then emerge to a world with FAR less traffic on the parkway. But if the zombies are going to be long-lived or maybe reproduce, then supplies are definitely going to be a problem no matter what approach you take. Some ancient fortresses surrounded farm land (i.e. Constantinople) and water supplies so they could withstand a siege for years. But it takes a lot of people to defend such a thing. And some of those people are just BOUND to be *********s which could make the whole zombie defense thing a real drag.
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