You're given command of all US assets prior to the battle of Yonkers. What weapon systems and tactics do you deploy to fend of the multi-million zombie horde of the first wave?
You're given command of all US assets prior to the battle of Yonkers. What weapon systems and tactics do you deploy to fend of the multi-million zombie horde of the first wave?
I remove all troops and let the zombies invade Yonkers, then I’d nuke it. They deserve it for living in a city with a name as fricking stupid as “Yonkers”
Okay no nukes then
N9, can't change shit. If you wanted no nukes, should've said so in the OP.
Priority logistics for ammunition and food. Fortify various buildings and use the chokepoint as described in the story.
Eat shit Trumanite.
I put up signs pointing to Manhattan saying "Free Brains -> -> ->". Maybe some Joisey Barriers to help channel them.
Then I let nature take its course.
Eventually, they'll finish devouring all of NYC and will starve to death. In a few hundred years, maybe NYC can be repopulated with non-scum.
That's a negative, ghostrider, NY can never be cleansed of its filth even with nuclear hellfire. Your best bet is to turn the state into a radioactive crater and forbid citizens from traveling there. It's the only way to be sure the globohomosexual doesn't re-emerge on the East Coast. New Jersey should then be quarantined and threatened with likewise erasure if they don't fix their shit.
Dude. Letting zombies loose on NYC to eat everyone's brains? They'd starve to death with full stomachs.
The horde of zombies that attacked in the battle of Yonkers was all of the nyc population leaving the city to keep infecting. They were trying to stop the 10 million horde from spreading.
Immediately replace all soldier's M16s/M4's with M14s and use the power of stocks that won't crack with bayonet usage to destroy the zombies in close combat
The apaches and artillery would have been more than sufficient, everyone else could just go home. No particular tactics necessary either, its a slow moving massed target that uses no cover, cannot return fire and makes no attempt to avoid incoming fire. Even if you assume that the flesh stays alive in perpetuity rather than death when the head is destroyed, you're just going to end up with fields of twitching smoking gore piles rather than some unstoppable horde.
I've never actually bothered to read the book, how are the soldiers overran when they can just fricking walk or catch a ride away?
Explosions don't hurt zombies because they cant feel pain, so they just keep walking toward the trenches with impunity.
That's moronic. The power of explosives comes from shrapnel and the shockwave destroying tissue. Pain is an indication of injury, not something in and of itself. A zombie that cannot feel pain would become injured and just not realize it - nothing more.
If anything the lack of sensory input would make those injuries much worse as they try to push themselves as if there wasn’t one
extreme fuddlore and general nogunz-ry is employed at all times to suspend the reader's disbelief
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I don't care about this thread anymore but I just wanted to leave this here: seethe
>Soldiers are digging trenches and setting up chokepoint
>Start laying down lead on the horde
>Wtf they're still coming
>Shock and awe with the air/naval arsenal
>WTF THEY'RE STILL COMING
>Thermobaric bomb is dropped
>Did it work?
>They're still fricking coming but their internals are externals from the pressure
>Broken ranks, retreat to somewhere
>America failed, etc
I can't find my copy, but it was an okay read in high school. I'll either love it or hate it if I pick it up again, but I remember hating the movie because of how separated from the book lore it was.
>it was an okay read in high school
same, I remember liking it pretty well
I liked the trope in the book that 3 or 4 different characters opened their interviews with "i got the worst of the war, everyone else is a pussy compared to me"
very human lol
Man I remember the no-gunzery bullshit that was the creation of a "speshul anti zombie file"
>a fricking semi auto
they had to re-tool, from the ground up, in the middle of the fricking apocalypse, just to make semi-auto only rifles because everyone somehow forgot about the switch on the M4
You expect some New York living no guns(probably anti gun) moron who’s entire knowledge base of the us military is from Wikipedia and book pre 1970s to know anything?
It was to stop guys from panicking
Lmao just give them bolt actions don’t pretend semi-autos are a new invention
which makes no fricking sense at all.
There are TRILLIONS of rounds of 556 in circulation and suddenly oops we gotta re-tool for fricking 7.62x39 in a rifle made out of wood (basically a mini 14) because our armorers suddenly can't figure out how to weld the selector lever so it can't move to full auto. You know, like they did on the M14
With those trillions of rounds you lost to Afghanistan. Don't even start with zombies
Zombie don't hide in caves for 2 decades. At least not on purpose.
this has gotta be the stupidest fricking, most low effort bait on the planet. Yeah, we left all of our ammo in afghanistan with the ana. We didn't take any of it home with us.
why is literally every yuro obsessed with america despite "hating" us?
They're psychotic mentally ill freaks perpetually angry we as Americans exist, are factually better than they are and that we can buy guns that we get to post on this funny board. I'd bet money it's either some shitskin mud demon or a fat moronic brit still analangry over the revolutionary war. Always is.
i just opened the thread but the semi auto rifles they made were 5.56
are you serious? or seriously moronic?
forgot to mention that these were supposed to be volley-fired by morons in lines like it was the napoleonic era
Yeah brooks was a special kind of no gunz moron wasn’t he.
Because it's impossible to mag dump on semi auto too. Also impossible to remove the FA settings from M4s and M16s
>Because it's impossible to mag dump on semi auto too.
No it's not, you can bump fire the entire thirty rounds in several seconds easily.
>today on anon can't understand sarcasm
Author who has never been in a fight doesn't understand what muscles are used in a grapple, news at 11.
There really isn't a coherent explanation, the book just kind of glosses over how explosives work and the author has no idea about the sort of wounds generated by bullets.
It's pretty much just fiat so the plot can move on.
pretty much every zombie story either glosses over how the military can't kill zombies but survivors do or cops out by making the infection overpowered so the military is zombies from the start
modern writers are lazy.
There are some zombie apocalypse books that do this well, including the one (name forgotten) where they hole up in abandoned missile silo.
You could easily just have a few pages to explain what happened + fill in later with storytelling.
"One of the major hotspots early on was Washington DC. Blah blah blah, all the politicians dead, gears of society slowly stopped turning. Military increasingly relied upon to restore order and provide basic services. People keep bringing their infected family members to military bases and outbreaks keep happening. Soldiers without pay and no support slowly desert to go home and protect their families."
etcetcetc
Day by Day Armageddon?
or zombies use telepathy to take over the military
This is why the only good zombie story ever was Return of the Living Dead.
The zombies are virtually invincible, super strong, and intelligent enough to speak and lay ambushes. Any corpse, from a skeleton to a man sawed in half top to bottom, reanimates as a brain eating berserker almost instantly after being touched by the magical Trioxin liquid. Burning is the only reliable way to stop a zombie, but this releases more Trioxin into the air, which can animate more undead in the form of rain.
I don't know, if you look beyond the edgy goreporn, the Crossed series have pretty good antagonists. Then again, I'm not sure they can be called zombies
I read the whole first crossed run it frickin sucked. All the crossed would die because they'd be unable to take care of themselves or even adequately assess one action over another.
How come the crossed virus turns you British?
Explosions don't work because the swarm is already a million strong. Nobody turned up ready to kill a cities worth of people and didn't have the resources to do so. The troops holding the line aren't trained to consistently pop off headshots at at approaching horde, which is both physically and mentally demanding. The book does quite a lot of explaining.
The book's explanations are not good or coherent, I've read it. The idea that no one knows there's a million coming despite there being aircraft and satellites and people in cars with cellphones is... very dumb.
The only way the premise works is if everyone is so dumb that they forgot they could build walls.
Zombies just look like a crowd of people.
They dropped bombs and even cluster bombs after leading a huge swarm into an open field and didn't do anything. Since the bombs mostly don't hit the brain and instead just frick up their limbs, they just keep coming. They realized setting up a firing line is a lot more effective as long as they aim for the head.
Also the zombies are immune to huge amounts of pressure for some reason. People initially went to remote islands thinking they were safe but the zombies just walked on the bottom of the ocean floor and onto the island. I think there was a section where deep sea divers had to go down and kill all the zombies just shuffling around on the bottom of the ocean.
>Since the bombs mostly don't hit the brain and instead just frick up their limbs, they just keep coming. They realized setting up a firing line is a lot more effective as long as they aim for the head.
Which is why I said the book runs on fiat. That's not how brains work, pressure waves pulverize tissues just the same as if a chunk of lead passes through them. For the premise to work, the military needs to behave in the most consistently moronic manner possible, the zombies need to be totally immune to decomposition despite having essentially non-functional immune systems, and they need to just selectively ignore the laws of physics regarding pressure waves, but then still die to bullets.
The book is fine, you just need to accept that things fall apart if you think about them, so don't think.
>the military needs to behave in the most consistently moronic manner possible
If it was written today with colonel shaniqua calling the shots at least it’s plausible
That's exactly the problem though, it was written around 15 years ago when the "Fulda Gap" generals were supposedly still calling the shots.
So the generals are too prepared to fight a defensive war, but it's not an elastic defense at all, they're practically built into their positions and can't move.
The author has NO understanding of military doctrine, he thinks the AirLand Battle doctrine of the Cold War was just trench warfare
>The author has NO understanding of military doctrine,
Oh I agree. Max Brooks is a homosexual. I'm just saying that if it came out today the incompetent leadership could be more easily explained.
>the problem was, the soldiers were ordered not to shoot any BIPOC zombies
see
Frick off and stop defending bad writing
Have you ever noticed that vampires never eat vegetables?
Lmao imagine actually still defending this shit YA book as if there was anything to salvage or the author did anything right
LOL, LMAO EVEN
ROFL look at this post LOL you're such a moron
ROFL
KEK
LEL
The virus that causes zombies is basically "a wizard did it and he used magic." It turns humans into zombies, but anything else it comes into contact with (including bacteria) it kills.
The author insinuates that Best Korea unleashed the virus then retreated into seekrit underground cities
Nah, the virus apparently is naturally occurring and there have been historical outbreaks (if the zombie survival guide is canon, even the fricking ancient Romans knew of it and successfully put down a couple outbreaks). The outbreak starts in China, where some rural kid gets bitten by something while diving in a reservoir dam built over an abandoned city. The infection then spreads in the rural communities around the dam because the locals are absolute fricking morons before the chink commies notice it. This is where a well-written realistic story would end; the PRC would crack down on the area and send PLA to gun down anyone who is either infected or knows too much. Nobody in the world cares about it outside of some Amnesty International hippies who write a couple of open letters about how the PRC is cracking down on dumbfrick villagers in the province of Shi-tno-bod Ycares. But not in Brooksland, where chicks round up the infected and throw them into political prison camps where they can spread the infection further, before starting to stripmine the zombies for organs to sell on the international black market, which causes the infection to spread across the world.
To be entirely fair to Brookes, assuming that there's no evil wizard spreading the virus, everyone on the planet has to be about as moronic as they can be before a zombie outbreak would be more than a local problem. Granted having it happen in central New York would be a much bigger problem than it happening in Middle'o'nowhere, Bumfrickistan - but it still shouldn't get much further than that.
>before starting to stripmine the zombies for organs to sell on the international black market, which causes the infection to spread across the world.
This part is 100% realistic and only a slight change from how the wuhan plague escaped the lab it was being tested in.
>This is where a well-written realistic story would end; the PRC would crack down on the area and send PLA to gun down anyone who is either infected or knows too much.
I don't know about that one, chief.
He sells it as outbreaks happening a lot in West due to a thriving organ black market supplied with Chink opposition organs
The entire premise of zombies is idiotic. The only way it “works” is by literal magic, otherwise the whole thing goes against biology and the laws of physics. If zombies are unaffected by blood loss, how are their muscles getting oxygen and glucose to do literally anything. And then the excuse of “oh the brain isn’t taking as much anymore” gets tossed around like that’s supposed to help, despite supposedly not needing blood flow in the first place. Zombies take the apex predator on the planet and take away the number one thing making us deadly (intelligence) and oftentimes the second most thing (endurance running).
Last of Us/fungal-parasite is the most convincing
Even then, people with uncontrolled mycotic infections wouldn’t act like beserkers with superhuman strength. They’d act like “regular” sick people, acting delirious then lying down in a hospital and dying as the fungus saps them of all strength. Again humans without intelligence are pretty helpless in nature. Without farming or organized hunting, the infected would die of starvation and exposure within weeks.
It's my favorite part of 2000s zombie lore that shattering a zombie's bones and muscles rendering him 1/10th as fast and strong does "nothing useful".
The problem is they DID.
The author uses the voice of a completely moronic E-nothing to explain that, somehow, despite the use of 120mm Canister, HEAT, autocannons and heavy machineguns, cluster bombs, artillery fire did not completely shatter the hordes. Even if we took the most absurd levels of "ah, but they were only blown apart! the upper half was still attached to the head and they could crawl towards the soldiers!" and assumed it was the way it worked, eventually you just have tens of thousands of shattered upper torsos with heads pulling themselves along the pavement towards you. They're easily killed by machinegun fire.
The writer has no military experience of his own and makes some *huge* fricking leaps in logic to explain why tanks are then firing SABOT rounds into the crowds
then you have guys like this guy who think cluster bombs are just regular bombs and aren't filled with tons of tiny bomblets and stuff filled with shrapnel that could easily penetrate a human brain. Same with m1028 canister shot. Though now it'd be M1147 on airburst mode.
Ultimately the book is badly written. It's meant to set up the author's reformist-like world view where a new battle rifle made from bottom of the barrel components and chambered in 7.62mm (??) is used to kill the endless hordes instead, and all the US military's vast, useless technology is discarded instead.
It's badly written, there's no need to go "but um".
>The writer has no military experience of his own and makes some *huge* fricking leaps in logic to explain why tanks are then firing SABOT rounds into the crowds
The explanation was that each tank only has a few canister rounds and the rest were SABOT/HEAT.
The artillery and airstrikes definitely obliterate the zombies, but i believe the attacking force was over a million, so they just didn't have enough munitions. The narrator also makes an explicit point as to the hubris and unpreparedness of the commanders. So yes they do act stupidly, but it's acknowledged.
Ah so the explanation is they were moronic?
America, the country that had Burger King in Iraq
Didn’t have enough ammo.
Lol lmao even
Bitch, you haven't had enough ammo for the wars you've planned.
In a situation of the whole country shitting itself, it's not beyond reasonable doubt to expect logistical issues
bitch, do you see how much space is between these craters?
>what is fragmentation
>what are shockwaves
Lmao lol
They're those things everybody assures me actually killed everybody withing 100ft of a TOW
155s have a 50 yard kill radius if I'm being generous, more realistically 150. There are no gaps.
How many bodies will a piece of shrapnel go through before it stops?
A bunch, no I’m not doing the fricking math for you we’ve had this exact same fricking thread so many times if you actually care look at the archives
I accept your place at the end of my wiener
Someone always needs to make shit sexual, I love this board but Christ.
The first post has the word "fricking" in it
If I had that meme where the guy says something moronic and gets called a moron then I'd post it, but I don't and I don't want to find it
moron
No, it's a picture
moron
>drop a fricking 750 lb CBU into a crowd
>doesn't do shit apparently
BAD
WRITING
dude there's fricking hubris and then there's being so arrogant you can't PHYSICALLY LEAVE your position
as in there was NOWHERE TO GO if they had to bail out.
It's bad writing.
you'll have to remind me, was there a second book written? it was former military guys in a missile silo and at the end of the first one they had a firefight with raiders that had a fuel truck
Yes that is the series, there were 3 books and two novels made.
thanks a ton for reminding me, gonna pick those up
TOW has several pounds of pure HE in the warhead even in the anti-tank versions
it can be used that way and it sure as hell kills people in buildings
>all caps
You guys realise you fricked up.
lol
lmao even
b***h THOSE ARE AIRBURSTS
AIR FRICKING BURSTS
ARTILLERY WOULD BE THE NUMBER ONE BEST ZOMBIE HORDE KILLER OUT THERE BECAUSE IT WILL BE SENDING SHRAPNEL DOWN INTO ZOMBIE SKULLS BY THE HUNDREDS WITH EACH SHELL
AND THIS HORDE OF MASSED INFANTRY WAS UNABLE TO BE DEFEATED BY "COLD WARRIOR" GENERALS...WHO SPENT THEIR WHOLE FRICKING LIVES TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THE BEST WAY TO KILL A MASSED HORDE
MAX BROOKS IS A FRICKING MIDWIT HACK WHO CAN'T WRITE A SHITTY ALLEGORY FOR THE IRAQ WAR WITH BOTH HANDS AND A FLASHLIGHT
>We're going to funnel all the zombies in a city to one place
>We have no idea how many that is, to the point our estimate is two or three orders of magnitude off
>We make no attempt to adjust strategy after seeing that we're off by a factor of one hundred, despite the fact that the enemy is moving at the speed of a three legged turtle.
Just because you have an explanation doesn't mean it makes sense.
>how are the soldiers overran when they can just fricking walk or catch a ride away?
Through the power of shitty plot
I believe it was due to the machinations of the vile sorcerer Lo-Pan.
That's what Jack Burton told me.
The check is in the mail
Good. Sumb***h must pay.
Who the 6ft tall roadblock or the basket case on wheels?
Something something DEY WAS TRYNA FIGHT WW3
Which they proceeded to do by ignoring LITERALLY EVERYTHING that would have actually been important in a Third World War. Like logistics. And reconnaissance.
They run out of ammo, basically, being only prepared for a standard peer vs peer firefight. They also have the landmate system (portable vision device so each trooper can patch in what they see to a nearby tank or commander) One helicopter broadcasts the view of Millions of Zs approaching, followed by another broadcasting when he gets scoffed by a Z while using the toilet. The entire army does well at first, it's a meatgrinder, but eventually runs out of ammo. then when the closeup gets broadcast to every trooper and the Zs just keep coming, everyone panics and runs for it.
landwarrior*
also it's even more embarrassing than that because apparently they somehow fricking failed to clear houses in their own defensive line
In the movie, they were modern fast zombies not oldschool slow ones so you can't outrun them
That's cool, we're talking about the book though
That abortion of a movie had almost nothing to do with the book. They just used the (then) famous title of the books to make the almost unrelated dog turd of a film sell.
Technicals and aircraft. Lots and lots of technicals. Zombies can't outrun a Toyota Hilux so any civilian volunteers would be welcome to go fight also.
fire loads of hellfire missiles
>reading this trash instead of the vastly superior pic related novel.
Day by day armageddon was so fricking good, apart from the last book where the writer pulled out boston dynamics dogs and fricking NANOMACHINES, and don't even get me started on the reason behind the zombie apocalypse. The whole series overall is /k/ino approved though.
I mean at least Robo dogs are kind of a thing, nanomachinesSON are still essentially science fiction at this point
That series was dope as shit expect the end part of it. John's letter always made me sad.
>Day by Day Armageddon
Patrician taste.
Artillery, mobile gun trucks, tanks, claymores followed by MICLIC charges to break contact and rinse repeat for how ever miles as necessary.
Oh don't be that guy. "what about the immune system?" They're fricking zombies. Frick your immune system. Hold on, you've actually taken me to a whole new plateau of understanding. If they're dead, how can they walk? I never thought of it that way before, my eyes have opened.
Look dude, I realize the HRT makes you passive aggressive, but try to be reasonable here. Even if we accept the premise that corpses get up and walk around, they are fundamentally corpses. What do corpses do that humans do not? Rot, practically from the moment of expiration; in peak summer with bugs and carrion the muscles can be stripped in days. Beyond that, they're just human bodies with no magic resistances to the same things we spent the last 20 years vaporizing afghans with. Grenades rip legs off, mortars strip flesh from bone and JDAMs leave just pink mist and bone fragments.
Yo, I don't think Bugs Bunny a real rabbit
Just evacuate ahead of time if they know where the zombies are going and let all the mechanized horrors beyond comprehension have fun for once.
>white phosphorous everywhere
>missile spams out the ass
>everything from jets and apaches to tanks and IFV’s destroying anything that moves
>basically just level the place to where the aftermath looks like something straight out of 40k
I don’t give a remote frick what kind of braindead capeshit tier plot armor some meme virus gives you because there is no way in hell anything is still going to be moving when their CNS just got fricked by an autocannon or their muscles completely melted away into bone from fire and explosions. By then there wouldn’t even be anything physically left to make them capable of movement from the pressure waves alone, nevermind the kinetic act of being ripped apart and flying around like a ragdoll from all the explosions. Cluster bombs have all sorts of shrapnel in them, if the initial explosion didn’t kill them then them getting diced like that one scene with the laser room in Resident Evil should.
I always saw it as their brain reanimating itself like a meat puppet controlled by The Virus™, or the Left 4 Dead route where its basically super rabies, so technically they’re not actually dead and thus a corpse, just a victim of the super rabies. But even then an actual corpse would still keep decomposing over time animated or not, and will eventually reach a point where the muscles capable of movement are just gone, hence why they shuffle around from rigor mortis and shit.
>lead them onto the highway choke point
>launch massive amounts of napalm
>launch more as necessary
Bullets mean nothing when fire is the only thing that can stop them.
I dunno. Shoot them in the head. An army can't lose to zombies outside of absurd fiction.
>set up balance beam over giant chasm
Checkmate zombies, what are you gonna do, balance?
In all seriousness I barely remember reading this shit and LAMO slow zombies frick up everything?
Going off what everyone else points out that somehow explosives didn't realistically frick up the zombies organs, limbs, brains but they still follow this rule of being slow instead of sprinters is stupid.
Shitty writing from some heeb only entertained people when they were uninformed teens.
Zombies working ever in modern America, where everyone has had the
>C:>If [zombie] (y/n)y
>then
>[shoot in face]
lesson burned into us is a joke. The horde would never get that large, since every gun owner in the western world would cum through their pants at the idea of finally putting that leftover Z-Max ammo to its intended use. But say it does, because the book is full of fuddlore and the zombies might as well be magic. Modern artillery and air munitions will flat-out vaporize a human into shit haze, and things like basic mine laying, artillery, etc, would melt their numbers like nothing else. Ok, there’s a million of them. Send in a pile of tanks and AFV, shit on the horde with mines, artillery and air power, and pick off the wriggling corpses left over with your coax or mounted weapons. Then napalm the place before it becomes the biggest home for rot and disease since India.
Inb4 sone moron sones in with the
>muh COVID
Insult, go on, do it, I know your itching too you generic b***h
>tfw writing a novel with strong military sci fi element as a nogunz bong
>trying to make it as plausible/grounded as I can
>the cold sweats when I imagine /k/ tearing it apart
Post a pdf of it, best to rip that bandaid off and get good feed back to fix shit now rather than me eternally mocked later
it's still just a million different files of first-draft bullshit that makes no sense but when it's more like a book I will definitely post it here to get reamed out
I am in a similar boat
>Fantasy setting with some sci-fi bits
>Have ideas for each race's setup
>Have about 5 arcs planned
>Have timelines set
>Worried about relying too much on "It's magic I ain't gotta explain shit"
>Worried about ripping off established fantasy settings (LotR, WoW, Warhammer, fricking Adventure Time)
>Worried about getting cancelled because orcs = black people and goblins = SEAs
>Flip flop between novel and screenplay formats
I add a couple paragraphs every couple months, but it's all so tiresome.
>Flip flop between novel and screenplay formats
You're pretty fricking moronic if you think that some random guy from bumfrick would be able to get a multi-arc fantasy-scifi franchise greenlit in any period of hollywood, let alone the current cape-shit era. It's novel or obscurity, buddy.
>Implying I'll ever have a product worthy of publishing
Thanks for believing in me <3
M8 I had no idea how hard it was going to be when I started. I just had ideas for a load of cool scenes and themes that I wanted to get across. Now it's turned into this bloated complex tangle of politics and timeliness. I will get there though, it's my one real ambition in life everything else is just chores
Use the I287 from the Hudson to the NY/CT border as a barrier to stop Zeds migrating North.
Barricade all bridges out of Manhattan.
Isolate and Quarantine Long Island.
Order Napalm fire bomb runs all across Manhattan, Harlem, Bronx, etc etc all the way up north to the I287
Checking for life and movement. Any movement detected warrants another fire run.
Once NYC has been sterilized, maintain a close watch on Long Island for infected.
Infected Poistive ID = sterilize through fire bombing
Negative Infected = clean up NYC with boots on the ground one building at a time until every district is clean of infected.
Mission complete.
You know what bothers me most about that scene?
Well, okay. Not the most. But it’s probably at least top five.
They had Abrams. Said Abrams could have easily floored it into the crowd and not stopped ‘til time square, because human tissue is not THAT much of an impediment. And even if they had hit one that had a skull as hard as the average /misc/ refugee and caused a track to be thrown, who the duck cares? It’s not like the zombies are smart enough to open hatches or anything. Sure, the guys inside my have to piss in bottles and subsist on MREs for a day or so until they can be rescued, but they ain’t gonna get got
He’ll just wack them with the turret for a while if you get bored. Yeah brooks was a complete moron
>He’ll just wack them with the turret for a while if you get bored
kek
>About a dozen Abrams doing donuts though the zombie horde
>Drivers and crew are squealing in glee like Japanese schoolgirls over the radio
>Supporting infantry told to take cover as the non driving crew on the tanks get bored and start mag dumping the machine guns into the crowd
>Video from the orbiting helicopters gets uploaded to near-future Youtube dubbed with varying comedy/heavy metal music tracks to help civilian morale.
It's always a problem with fiction where the author NEEDS a scene to go a certain way but doesn't put in the leg-work to make sure that there are no other options built into the scene, it just comes across as everyone in the scene suddenly taking an 80 point drop in IQ. WWZ needed Yonkers to be a catastrophic failure, with the military being completely unable to deal with the new threat, so that the book could set up the complete change to everything that the zombies bring about.
If it's any consolation it's not the most moronic thing in the book. Remember that he has all of Britain running back to the castles (99.999% of which are ruins, refitted as posh houses, and/or museums post 1400) and fighting the zombies off with spears and zweihanders.
I had blessedly repressed that knowledge, god brooks was a moron
I mean, if you're going to have a nation reacting to the zombie apocalypse by saying "Let's go medieval on their asses!" Army of Darkness style, then at least put in the time to have that entire country portrayed as whooping barbarian lunatics living larger than life heavy metal lives after the apocalypse ends.
Brook's big problem with WWZ is that he has an entire universe built around his zombie apocalypse
if the military doesn't get completely curbstomped in the dumbest ways imaginable, then all of his rants about how the M16 is bad, and how the military just needs to use "the stuff that works" (REALLY taking on some Pierre Sprey/Mike Sparks vibes here) falls flat on its face.
It's an excellent exercise in "when you've dug yourself into a hole, stop digging".
actually let me delve into that a bit more. One of his big things was the SIR rifle, which is described as being a rifle similar to the mini-14 but chambered in "7.62" and is semi auto only.
That's it. That's how he solved the US military's problems.
So if your "solutions" take 5 minutes, naturally you only take five minutes explaining why they were a problem to begin with. It's intellectual bankruptcy all the way down.
Don't forget that in the Zombie survival guide, he describes the ideal firearm as an M1 Carbine.
In his defense, when the book was written that wasn’t a terrible suggestion
bro that was in the mid 2000s what the hell are you talking about
It was 2006. ARs weren't nearly as popular as today but we were out of the AWB and there were plenty of other, better semi auto rifles available. Like the Mini 14 which he already sucked off as ideal
We’re explicitly taking about the first book though, which was published in 2003
The thread is about World War Z which was 2006. The zombie survival guide was 2003. But even in 2003 there were better options than the M1 carbine.
Except
explicitly refers to ZSG.
My bad. I still stand by there were better options than the M1 carbine in 2003.
Sure. It’s not the best choice, but it’s not a terrible choice either
No it's not at all. I'd rather have an AR, AK, mini-14, etc but I wouldn't feel bad with a M1 carbine either
The problem is that .30 Carbine is a pretty niche round nowadays. 5.56, x39, 7.62 NEATO/.308, 12 gauge, etc. will be everywhere but .30 Carbine hasn’t been in vogue for decades, even around the early 2000’s. With that you’d have to pick your battles *very* carefully, and even then the threat of getting caught unawares is still ever present.
>inb4 dur i get it online
Which won’t happen when everythings gone to hell and basic services are dead in the water, literally.
>were better options than the M1 carbine in 2003.
>My bad. I still stand by there were better options than the M1 carbine in 2003.
>My bad. I still stand by there were better options than the M1 carbine in 2003.
So....this is a fictional work written by a israelite encouraging people to own M1 Carbines because zombies. I'm ok with this
>It's always a problem with fiction where the author NEEDS a scene to go a certain way but doesn't put in the leg-work to make sure that there are no other options built into the scene, it just comes across as everyone in the scene suddenly taking an 80 point drop in IQ.
It's not even that hard to make a scenario that's somewhat believable. Instead of Yonkers why not a little further north in CT where there is actually forest. Say that they don't want to fight in a metro area because of collateral damage to both people and infrastructure. Then have a really bad thunderstorm or heavy fog or something so soldiers don't see as well. The trees and hills make tanks less viable, helicopters can't see through the fog and the tree canopy is blocking thermals, arty was deemed too excessive or they wanted direct line of sight confirmation from infantry or some bullshit.
That still could be picked apart as bullshit but I spent 5 minutes thinking about it. It's not the best scenario but would be move believable that infantry without support could be overrun because they couldn't see the horde until it's too late. Then morale loss, panic, whatever bullshit about how everyone else gave up after that (which is dumb)
I wasn't defending the Yonkers scene in the book, just pointing out that Mel Brooks is - on his best day - a very average author, and that sort of badly thought through scene is a very clear sign of that.
>doesn’t read the books
>complains about the writing
Why is /k/ like this?
>doesn't read the post he's responding to
>blurts out his uninformed nonsense anyway
Why is /k/ like this?
I didn't think you were defending him. I was agreeing with you and pointing out it's not that hard to make a decent scenario with a little thought.
Also, a buddy of mine was an artillery guy in the Muhreens. He told me that there were a couple guys who would probably have cum if their daily briefing was “So today we’re going to be shooting at a bunch of unarmored infantry in the open. They will not take cover. You will not face counter battery fire. You have what might as well be an endless stockpile of ammunition to use. When given the signal, you will fire as fast as possible continuously until the barrel warps. Also, all of the targets are from New York”
>When the barrel warps, you will grab another gun from the pile 20 years of MIC blue balling for WWIII left us with a bit of a surplus
I wonder what the ratio of Civilian AR-15s to M-4s and M-16s is anyway? Surely a request to PSA could have every soldier equipped with a Semi-auto only rifle in short order if the concept of welding had somehow escaped armorers the world over.
I know this is bait or Max should really stop coming into these threads but.
>Zombies are killed by brain trauma to the point of destruction
>Single gunshots to the head are known to accomplish this
>Therefore, complete destruction is not required, presumably only the coordination center (idk what it's called, I maintain servers, not people)
>Artillery shrapnel does not work to destroy the brain for reasons unknown beyond Max Brooks being a moron.
There was some general disaster prep stuff in there about FEMA standard 3 days of supplies not being enough IIRC. Knowing people before a disaster of any kind is something else I think it mentioned.
I had a copy in middle school but loaned it out and never saw it again. If I see it in a used book store I might pick it up for nostalgia and to laugh at shit I used to think was cool before I became hasguns.
>Artillery shrapnel does not work to destroy the brain for reasons unknown beyond Max Brooks being a moron.
He seems to take "artillery shrapnel is not an aimed rifle shot, so it will kill zombies, but for every fragment that hits a brain there will be hundreds that don't" to mean "Zombie skulls are shrapnel proof, but not bullet proof". I don't think he understands just how much shrapnel there would be in the air in a situation like Yonkers where you have dozens of howitzers rapid firing on a single position.
lots and lots and lots of concertina wire
So /k/, what type of properties would a zombie causing virus/fungus/bacteria have to have in order to actually be dangerous?
I think the vehicle for spreading it, would have to be airborne to be effective and the zombies themselves would have to be sprinters.
Any other ideas?
It needs to be magical and ignore the laws of thermodynamics to work at all unless it’s just airborne rabies, and it it’s just airborne rabies we have vaccine for that anyway.
The Last of Us Cordyceps 100%.
airborne rabies that gets to the brain within hours or faster
I came here to post this. Something that's airborne and has the r0 of influenza, but causes violent insanity.
Some dude would just sperg out in public, you would think "that's weird" and go home, and think you're fine, and then a day later you have a psychotic episode and kill half of your family.
Every group of survivors would be watching the others extremely fricking carefully for the first signs of brain rot.
Zombieland 1 is amazing and has this premise
not 2
frick 2
Depends on what you want; something that spreads like a fricking measles, has month or two long period during which the infected can spread the disease but doesn't have any symptoms and turns at least 90% of infected zombies would be pretty bad even if by that points the whole zombies thing would be secondary to the invisible measles-ebola thing
Easily spread like the common cold, mild symptoms, delayed onset (1-2 months) that makes you into a cannibal. Other option is it's highly infectious and highly deadly (like 90+%) and that the survivors are naturally immune for some reason. Basically it's not a matter of if you get sick, it's when. Even if you don't have direct contact.
You still need a suspension of disbelief but it's "possible"
If "Bitten or beaten by zombie" is not the primary cause of death in your zombie apocalypse, it goes in the trash.
Just make them demons from hell or whatever best handwave. There is no realistic biological zombie scenario
It's also more fun that way i.e. Evil Dead
Left 4 Dead Green Flu. Both fluid and airborne, the zombies are FAST and you've got specials to frick up most methods of defense.
>zombiegays are BBC and scat fetishists
It all makes sense
Wall the entire place off then drop in blind elderly Japanese people with shovels.
I keep everything the exact same, and let it happen.
all these years of people trying to flesh out a rational and realistic zombie outbreak, when, all along, a japanese game series that barely made sense as it is ended up having the most realistic scenario
infections breaks out(through rats because of a failed raid on the local underground mad science lab's and accidental monsterization of the HVT) and the city goes to shit, half the people are still alive but because of the way the virus(es) act with local fauna and wildlife+the fact that the lab was also creating different kinds of monsters makes survival difficult
the army doesn't have some last stand, they just fricking blockade the city and make sure nothing gets in or out and creates a total media blackout, and the company who caused it, who has ties with the US government, sends their own mercenary organization into the city and, when they fail, the government goes with the nuclear option
>the army doesn't have some last stand, they just fricking blockade the city and make sure nothing gets in or out and creates a total media blackout, and the company who caused it, who has ties with the US government, sends their own mercenary organization into the city and, when they fail, the government goes with the nuclear option
This really is the most plausible zombie scenario we have. Because the Japanese aren't soulless hacks when it comes to writing
>Because the Japanese aren't soulless hacks when it comes to writing
depends entirely on the Japanese doing the writing. Compare that shit to Gate or Highschool of the Dead.
Funny how the Ultranationalists put out the most moronic Weeaboo wank, isn't it?
Realistically if the virus is viable in water, bugs and rats there'd be no possibility of suppressing it, ever. Even a nuke wouldn't perfectly vaporize everything in the area like in Dragon Ball Z.
There's a reason the shipmaster had to melt half of Africa because one military base got taken over by the flood.
>a japanese game series that barely made sense as it is ended up having the most realistic scenario
What game was that?
Resident Evil you philistine.
Umbrella was also improperly disposing of infected corpses and flushing contaminated water into the city's water supply. That kind of corporate laziness leading to a disease outbreak, vs. some elaborate conspiracy or whatever, is completely plausible too.
>Cops fail to upkeep order and get overrun because the police chief was on Umbrella's payroll and is currently going criminally insane over the mere thought he might be exposed
I like how Capcom atleast put detail into the actual reasons as to why the response was sub-par
>Mfw I disbanded the one group that had prior experience with this bullshit
Thousands of claymore mounted on stakes ranging from 4 to 6 feet high.
everyone gets in a flamethrower tank
I’d gather a harem of super model/celeb frick toys and hole up someplace secure with ole ty of food and chains/handcuffs/extra large dildos
These should be enough
No need to go that far tbh, just drop shit like this on them.
>Lazy Dog projectiles could be dropped from almost any kind of flying vehicle. They could be hurled from buckets, dropped by hand, thrown in their small shipping bags made of paper, or placed in a Mark 44 cluster adaptor—a simple hinged casing with bins built in to hold the projectiles, opened by a mechanical time delay fuze. The adaptors themselves were 69.9 inches (1.78 m) long and 14.18 inches (36.0 cm) in diameter. They would be shipped empty, then filled by hand. Depending on how many projectiles could be packed in, loaded weight varied between 560 and 625 pounds (254 and 283 kg), with the theoretical maximum number of projectiles listed as 17,500.
>Regardless of how they were released into the air, each "Lazy Dog" projectile would develop an enormous amount of kinetic energy as it fell, penetrating nearly any material upon hitting the ground. Some reports say that their speeds often exceeded 700 feet per second (210 m/s; 480 mph; 770 km/h) before impact.[6]
They should be pretty cheap to produce given that they're literally just 20g of steel shaped to be somewhat aerodynamic, simple as frick to deploy and low tech thus getting that +400% reformer buff against zombies, and on hit, even if they miss the head, they'll smash through the upper body thus reducing zombie combat effectiviness by making it harder for them to grab someone.
Let's disregard that shit and get on Return of the living dead zombies.
armored front in loader
pic related
This guy is such a shit writer, the only reason his moron books were published is because israelite nepotism and his dad is Mel brooks.
Send the vaxxed for ultimate lulz.
Boomers aren't welcome here
>if you aren't double vaxxed and quad-boosted you're a boomer
oh noooo what will i do
That isnt what makes you a boomer, the constant need to bring up either the vaccine, trump or biden is what makes you a boomer. Covid is fricking gone man and no one wants to be reminded, just shut the frick up.
There's a lot of people that aren't just letting that shit go. It's convenient now for certain parties to encourage memory holing that shit, but there are plenty of people who will die of old age still mad as shit about covid.
And thats fine, but do we really need to be bringing it up on /k/ in completely unrelated threads? Maybe memoryholing something like covid is bad but i just want to move on and enjoy my life as much as i can.
>but i just want to move on and enjoy my life as much as i can
>Please please just leave me alone I won't say anything just let me have my TV and my steel belted radials
This book sucks and people have beaten to death why it sucks.
Use tanks with canister rounds, truck-mounted CIWS, all the cluster bombs you can ask for, put all infantry on high rise buildings with no ground access. Throw in some mine flails and steamrollers for good measure. All this bullshit about headshots and extreme pressure is nonsense, getting hit in the body with shrapnel is going to destroy limbs and prevent zombies from doing anything more than drag themselves along the ground with their chins.
I enjoyed this book and fully intend to have my kids read it when they're between 10-15 or something. It's a fun story and an interesting take on the genre.
But everything about how the military handles literally everything is written exceptionally moronicly. I don't understand how any adult on this board could possibly try to defend the Battle of Yonkers in the slightest, let alone 95% of the rest of the military's conduct in the book. It's clearly written by someone with 0 understanding of the shit he needed to get out of the way to make the plot go forward. Which isn't bad, but the defense of it as being totally sensical and justified is pants-on-head.
Aside from the military being moronic, the main issue is that zombies are inconsistent: they're tough enough to withstand nearby bomb blasts and walk through Mariana trench with ease, but they're also frail enough that a random housewife can tear one part with her bare hands and a blind 80-year-old Japanese dude can kill dozens with a spade. The atmosphere is pretty decent, but as soon as you start thinking too much about how zombies function, it all falls apart. Things get worse if you assume that the survival guide takes place in the same universe as WWZ (as it is somewhat implied), because if it does, then after 60 000 years of zombies being around and smaller outbreaks occurring every now and then, there is no real excuse why humanity hasn't yet figured out how to effectively deal with zombies.
>requisition an M16A1 or older model M16 that saw service in Vietnam, either from USAF or NG inventory, or borrow one from a private collection
>arrest Max Brooks and bring him to our HQ
>Beat him with the stock, stab him with an M7 bayonet attached to the rifle, then shoot him
Afterwards just fortify the whole area and let the Air Force and artillery do the real work
Up-armor a bunch of steamrollers and bulldozers (cheap sheet steel would be more than sufficient, doesn't need to stop bullets), and just roll them through the horde.
Also, lure and funnel a bunch of them into giant pits and set them all on fire. Hard for zombies to be a threat when all their muscle tissue has been cooked solid and their brains have been boiled inside their skulls. The fire doesn't have to destroy them, it just has to COOK them.
The book really isn't that bad
I like the part where the disease starts in China and the Chinese try to cover it up and then the US rolls out a fake vaccine that they know doesn't work
Just drive through them with tanks and mine sweepers en mass. You might even be able to use a load of tractors if modified.
Nuuuuhhhhhhh dey’ll get stuck!
t. Max Brooks. Probably
In the same scene he was a helicopter deciding to turn its blades into the horde which actually works until it hits a car or something and crashes. So yeah, just fricking moronic.
The most realistic 'zombie' movie is Shaun of the Dead with the outbreak lasting exactly 2 days, people getting infected mostly due to their own stupidity and military clearing everything up with supreme force.
CJs death in dawn of the dead is the only character in any film ever who's death has made me cry. To this day in Japan his death is considered perfection in the act of dying. This was a much more important film for Asian nations as the death of CJ epitomises the concept of the noble death in several Asian cultures, particularly Japan, the perfect 'samurai death' if you like because His hand is the one that decides his fate and manner of death not his enemies. He chooses death rather than dishonour. It genuinely makes me cry. It is the perfect warriors death beautifully depicted.
Did not expect to see this. Yes. CJ in Dawn of the Dead is known as is known as Nakusamurai. 泣く侍 (Crying Samurai) because his death is perfect and conforms to the perfect visual idea of Jisei no ku (death poem)
>CJ in Dawn of the Dead
Holding back the night
with it’s increasing brilliance
the summer moon.
–Yoshitoshi.
Is this shitposting or a legit thing in Japan for that movie?
>CJ in Dawn of the Dead is known as is known as Nakusamurai. 泣く侍 (Crying Samurai) because his death is perfect
No it comes from this death poem
My whole life long I’ve sharpened my sword
And now, face to face with death
I unsheathe it, and lo-
The blade is broken-
Alas! – Dairin Soto, 1568
>CJs death in dawn of the dead
–Saigyo (1190).
Inhale, exhale
Forward, back
Living, dying:
Arrows, let flown each to each
Meet midway and slice
The void in aimless flight
Thus I return to the source.
CJ Tears
Rain death
Wind
In America sure, at this point I feel Brittain would be overrun because they'd just refuse to fight back.
Better question is how do you contain an outbreak of the T-Virus without using tomahawk missiles (These were retconned to Nukes).
raccoon city was never cleansed with tomahawks, first it was a nuke, then it was a couple of thermobaric warheads, then it was all of that as well as a shitton of missiles, then to some "anti-biological weapon" which is really only canon in the remakes, which are their own canon
also, the answer is still going to be to cleanse the area since anything biological can be infected, including bugs and animals
Never read the book, but I lure the zombies into a small, semi-contained, low-elevation zone like a valley... round up as many firefighting helicopters as possible, and have them saturation fire the area with enough mustard gas to kill 300,000,000 elephants. "Mustard gas" at normal temperatures is actually a liquid, rather than a gas. Dispensing it through firefighting hoses from high altitude could give the liquid enough force to vaporize when it hits the ground. If you think this won't stop the zombies, then you clearly do not understand the effects of this compound. There are clear reasons it's banned in war, and it's not "muh suffering." It's because it is extremely effective at killing. This would utterly trivialize the threat of the zombies, as we can just deploy gas copters wherever we need them and back them up with infantry in high elevation cover.
Naturally, the way into Yonkers would also be completely covered with landmines, as would the perimeter around the valley. They might not always kill the zombies, but we can take the crawlers out easily.
>gleefully piling on
What happens to all those leg-less torso zombies when the next volley of harmless, shin destroying arty rolls in? Do they survive because they hit the deck?
fixed bayonets in rows, rotations to reduce fatigue, and large round shot, ideally reusable
gunpowder/ordinance conservation is the priority and there's no reason to worry about penetration for zombies even though penetration is 2/3rds of what we've optimized for - range is also no longer a concern, so why rifle?
areas where raw zombie mass is pushing back the line should be addressed with armored vehicles sparingly (so as to preserve fuel), ideally killdozers with wheeled projections, like a crop tiller
any/all long range warheads should be incendiary or napalm, and they need to be shot sufficiently far away from the frontline that troops are not at risk due to spread, while still reducing zombie pressure
Yonkers is supposed to be a choke point, so clearing biomass is necessary, clear the corpses with killdozers, toss mines down behind them, pull back, let the next round of zombies detonate the mines, and repeat indefinitely
Just send in a bunch of these.
>Zombieshit
Cringe
You are cringe. Of all the doomer fantasies zombies are the least cringe. I'll bet you are 'Amerikanski cibil wer' which is cringus maximums.
Heston Knew.
Why does it seem like half the thread is genuinly upset and angry that some noguns new york israelite wrote an unrealistic zombie book? Its just a book dudes, no need to get all wound up.
Not that I care that much but its a very common example of this slightly annoying thing where people appeal to fiction when discussing things. Obviously zombies are fiction themselves so it's not the best example but the weapons people are talking about using against them exist so people discuss it then someone goes.
>well actually in world war z this happens
People do it with a lot of different stuff it's absolutely spasticated.
Cause loads of people think he's an expert, will literally quote him.
Because they worship their guns and see them as the solution to every problem they can think of. The idea that in a book someone suggest that guns don't make the baddie go away, is something that terrifies and enrages them. It's like telling Mormons that their god is shit.
the chad vampire nuclear winter vs. the virgin zombie apocalypse
I bring enough artilery and bombs to cover the length of the highway I intentionally filled with zombies. Litterally their own fricking plan would have worked if the could do basic grade school math.
homie just get like a ladder and hang out on the roofs shooting them in the head while they can't climb up.
Truthfully? Kursk Defense. Lots of layers, built like a fricking maze. Lots of booby-traps like grinder gears. Zombies fall into various forms of endless destruction.
Zombies are stupid, following whatever catches their eye.
i havent read the book since it came out but IIRC the battle of yonkers portrayed the us armed forces as moronic to the point of being comically absurd (using gun battle tactics against a swarming enemy opponent)
its understandable that you cant develop and re equip your army with specialized anti zombie weapons overnight and have to resort to using regular guns and weapons for a while but digging foxholes? come on.
i would
>get US armed forces every excavator and bulldozer in the continental US.
>have every barbed wire factory running in shifts 24/7 and make some new ones.
the battlefield before battle, funnel the zombies into an ultra dense bottleneck and use barbed wire to slow them down
>hammer them with heavy artillery inside bottlenecks
>defense in depth, each line covers the line in front of it as it's retreating in clear evacuation routes with preprepared barbed wire mousetraps to close the routes behind them
>retreat is sounded when the number of zombies getting out of the ditch filled with bodies and barbed wire and getting close to the next line of troops gets too dangerous, they retreat while the next line covers.
>transportation for all troops ready after the final line for the evacuation
>attack helis with guns and big rocket pods patrol the battlefield and watch for sneaky zombie pushes from unexpected directions.
Keep in mind the strength of American Media. EVERYTHING in the US is about making a telivised event. Look at how many advertising breaks you frickers squeeze into your football games. It's quite believable that a president, general and all the media seeking officers would set everything up with a focus on making a "Woohaa, America technology is the best!" telivised propaganda piece than a proper battle.
it was moronic and not believable at all
they had all the means of winning and chose not to.
with a method, gather alot of them into one place, and use napalm to clear out the majority, why napalm? it'll burn EVERYTHING, once the fire reaches the brain, they'll drop dead, or if that doesn't come soon enough, collapse because they have been damaged beyond moving.
The rest? We'll just run em over with tanks maybe burn more shit along the way, fire is a pretty effective tool, after all is said and done, all beaches will be heavily fortified, because for some fricking reason, zombies don't get crushed (Along with their heads) on the sea floor.
Do you know how long a human body can burn beofre it is consumed? Well done anon, you killed loads, but there are now thousands of flaming zombies running at you.
>deploy troops on roofs and billboards and any other raised platform you can't walk to
>let them pick them off one by one
Assuming you can kill 5000 zombies in a work day you'd only need 2000 troops. Fire bomb the are afterwards to dispose of the corpses and mop up the rest the old fashioned way.
You'd have to be a complete moron to engage them any other way.
flamethrowers
>N-NO cus... Cus they'll just grab you... While they're on fire... Their eyes nose and ears being filled with fire and smoke does nothing to limit their ability to find you... And and and they only die when they're reduced to a skeleton even though their muscles would rapidly give out from being burned.
>are video games real
This thread is bait.
"HE projectile body is manufactured of forged steel AISI 1045. The 155 mm HE M107 filling may be either 6,62 kg of cast TNT or 6,985 kg of Composition B. A TNT-filled 155 mm HE M107 will produce approximately 1.950 fragments on detonation. The south African 155 mm ERFB produces approximately 7.000 fragments (probably HF-1 steel) with an individual mass larger than 0,5 g using nominal payload of 8,71 kg of RDX/TNT 50:50."
>explosions useless
I round up all the Black folk and send them in first, I make the prospect of victory appealing to them by saying there is all the watermelon and fired chicken in the world waiting for them if they are victorious. Then once they are in combat, I use danger close artillery and napalm. There might be some friendly fire, but I'm willing to risk it.
Do what they eventually do in the book - train all the troops to shoot for the head, not the body. Semi auto fire only, everyone lined up in three rank civil war style musket lines. Lots of ammo, with the rear line troops replacing the front line as they get tired, stressed out or run empty. Keep it going, slow and steady for days until all the slow moving Zs are dead.
Conversely, dig a bunch of deep holes and put boom boxes at the bottom of them.
Proven to be effective
>reading this trash instead of the vastly superior pic related novel.
Hunter is a great novel too
>tell the new york billionaires zombies dont have any worker's or "human" rights
>allow purchase of all military equipment
>smoke a fat cigar while I watch the capitalist machine compete for the free slave labor
There was about 4 millions zombies. Volume of an average is 0.06 m3. So, you need to dig up a hole of 240 000 m3. Let's round it up to 300 000 m3. So, you need a hole of 30 meters deep, 100m wide and 100m long and lure zombies in it. Not that hard. If you use the nuke, you can dig up a giant ass crater in a matter of days. Lure zombies in the hole and then set it on fire, or nuke it, I dunno, anything should work.