Analyzing/Explaining the Best/Most Common Zombie Weapons

[Oxy The Stupid Genius]

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Oxy The Stupid Genius

No melee weapons for me at all. I partially read the OP so forgive me. It all depends on what kind of zombies I'm up against.
If it's your typical fodder-civillian zombies then I'd arm myself with a medium range weapon, like the M16.
If I'm going against "I am Legend" zombies, then I'd keep an auto-shotgun along side with any SMG, just to spray in case they move all over the place.

That post is useless now, because you failed to read the OP. You can't get any of those weapons, and you don't even know what kind of zombies you're fighting. confused

If you read the OP, then your post would have been relevant- but instead, to save time, you wasted time.

Isn't that a form of irony? Because we're wasting our time posting on a thread that is a waste of time. Wait no it's not a waste of time because we're talking about undead people possibly spreading in an epidemic rate.

[Ubasti]

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Ubasti

Are these zombies slow moving like in most zombie films, or fast moving like in 28 days/weeks? The answer will make all the difference in my weapon choices.

Read the opening post. I said how fast they moved.

No, I will not tell you how fast they moved in this post. You're going to have to read the OP.

Sorry. I missed that part when I read the OP. I'm kind of tired right now.

Well, I wouldn't go with any firearms at all, then. I'm not a trained marksman, so I don't trust myself to hit anything that isn't moving at a snail's pace with a single shot. I'd want to rely on something reliable with low recoil but ease of aim and semiautomatic fire, like a 9mm SMG being fired on the semi setting. That way if I missed I could fire again quickly. The problem is that I wouldn't be able to get my hands on one. As for handguns, a handgun in the hands of an untrained shooter isn't going to do anything. I'd want to go with a hatchet, which can double as a breaching tool, and avoid combat as much as possible.

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Sciamancer

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Sciamancer

3. I have NEVER seen that crazy melee weapon that's in OP. I think it might be hard to find, plus, from the looks of it, if you swing it at a zombie, it will get stuck in it. Which is veery bad.

It's not a weapon, it's an entry tool. And it wouldn't get stuck- how the hell do you get a blunt object stuck? When using it as a weapon, this part (the one circled in red) would be the striking surface-

You can't really get that stuck in anything- it would smash the skull too much.

Oh! I thought you swung the point at em'. Okay.

If you were strong enough, (like, an above-average physically fit male) it wouldn't matter what part you swung- it would just smash through the skull so much that any difference would be negligible.

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Sciamancer

3. I have NEVER seen that crazy melee weapon that's in OP. I think it might be hard to find, plus, from the looks of it, if you swing it at a zombie, it will get stuck in it. Which is veery bad.

It's not a weapon, it's an entry tool. And it wouldn't get stuck- how the hell do you get a blunt object stuck? When using it as a weapon, this part (the one circled in red) would be the striking surface-

You can't really get that stuck in anything- it would smash the skull too much.

Really though, the halligan is hard to find, and expensive when you do. In all honesty, it's pretty specialized as an entry tool, and the requirement that you have to consciously orient it before striking isn't that great in an emergency.

I prefer Fresnel's hobopipe. If I'm breaking in, I'm BREAKING in an don't need to worry about keeping the building secure, since I won't be staying there for any significant amount of time.

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Sciamancer

3. I have NEVER seen that crazy melee weapon that's in OP. I think it might be hard to find, plus, from the looks of it, if you swing it at a zombie, it will get stuck in it. Which is veery bad.

It's not a weapon, it's an entry tool. And it wouldn't get stuck- how the hell do you get a blunt object stuck? When using it as a weapon, this part (the one circled in red) would be the striking surface-

You can't really get that stuck in anything- it would smash the skull too much.

Really though, the halligan is hard to find, and expensive when you do. In all honesty, it's pretty specialized as an entry tool, and the requirement that you have to consciously orient it before striking isn't that great in an emergency.

I prefer Fresnel's hobopipe. If I'm breaking in, I'm BREAKING in an don't need to worry about keeping the building secure, since I won't be staying there for any significant amount of time.

A hobopipe isn't going to get through a door that has a metal front and back, though. (And that's most exterior doors.)

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Oxy The Stupid Genius

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Oxy The Stupid Genius

No melee weapons for me at all. I partially read the OP so forgive me. It all depends on what kind of zombies I'm up against.
If it's your typical fodder-civillian zombies then I'd arm myself with a medium range weapon, like the M16.
If I'm going against "I am Legend" zombies, then I'd keep an auto-shotgun along side with any SMG, just to spray in case they move all over the place.

That post is useless now, because you failed to read the OP. You can't get any of those weapons, and you don't even know what kind of zombies you're fighting. confused

If you read the OP, then your post would have been relevant- but instead, to save time, you wasted time.

Isn't that a form of irony? Because we're wasting our time posting on a thread that is a waste of time. Wait no it's not a waste of time because we're talking about undead people possibly spreading in an epidemic rate.

Time enjoyed is not time wasted. biggrin

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Oxy The Stupid Genius

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Oxy The Stupid Genius

No melee weapons for me at all. I partially read the OP so forgive me. It all depends on what kind of zombies I'm up against.
If it's your typical fodder-civillian zombies then I'd arm myself with a medium range weapon, like the M16.
If I'm going against "I am Legend" zombies, then I'd keep an auto-shotgun along side with any SMG, just to spray in case they move all over the place.

That post is useless now, because you failed to read the OP. You can't get any of those weapons, and you don't even know what kind of zombies you're fighting. confused

If you read the OP, then your post would have been relevant- but instead, to save time, you wasted time.

Isn't that a form of irony? Because we're wasting our time posting on a thread that is a waste of time. Wait no it's not a waste of time because we're talking about undead people possibly spreading in an epidemic rate.

Time enjoyed is not time wasted. biggrin

[FRF_Hentai_Heitai_Forever]

M-14 or FN FAL: Semi-automatic, and large calibre rounds. A solid wood stock for bashing in heads. Also, I refuse to fire any of the feminised pansy weapons that are the 5.56mms.

Handgun: None, handguns are useless and needless weight. Carry more ammo instead.

16 inch Sword Bayonet: Note an optimal weapon, but as you can jam it comfortably on your main weapon (rifle), is handy. Also great for intimidating civilians to hand over supplies to you without wastin ammo.

Broadsword/machete/fireaxe: A good heavy, slashing weapon.

[Shrantic]

FRF_Hentai_Heitai_Forever

M-14 or FN FAL: Semi-automatic, and large calibre rounds. A solid wood stock for bashing in heads. Also, I refuse to fire any of the feminised pansy weapons that are the 5.56mms.

Handgun: None, handguns are useless and needless weight. Carry more ammo instead.

16 inch Sword Bayonet: Note an optimal weapon, but as you can jam it comfortably on your main weapon (rifle), is handy. Also great for intimidating civilians to hand over supplies to you without wastin ammo.

Broadsword/machete/fireaxe: A good heavy, slashing weapon.

You're trolling me. neutral

[Ubasti]

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FRF_Hentai_Heitai_Forever

M-14 or FN FAL: Semi-automatic, and large calibre rounds. A solid wood stock for bashing in heads. Also, I refuse to fire any of the feminised pansy weapons that are the 5.56mms.

Handgun: None, handguns are useless and needless weight. Carry more ammo instead.

16 inch Sword Bayonet: Note an optimal weapon, but as you can jam it comfortably on your main weapon (rifle), is handy. Also great for intimidating civilians to hand over supplies to you without wastin ammo.

Broadsword/machete/fireaxe: A good heavy, slashing weapon.

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I dunno. The M14 and FAL are good, reliable weapons if you can handle the weight and recoil. They also make excellent clubs in melee. It's better than having to draw a separate melee weapon. The butt on an M14 will crack a skull wide open if swung properly, and I don't see why the FAL would be any different, if a bit more cumbersome to attack with. Plus, both have civilian legal versions. I will agree on the bayonet, broadsword, and fire axe. I don't see much use. I can see the use in a machete if you are in a heavily wooded area, however.

[FRF_Hentai_Heitai_Forever]

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FRF_Hentai_Heitai_Forever

M-14 or FN FAL: Semi-automatic, and large calibre rounds. A solid wood stock for bashing in heads. Also, I refuse to fire any of the feminised pansy weapons that are the 5.56mms.

Handgun: None, handguns are useless and needless weight. Carry more ammo instead.

16 inch Sword Bayonet: Note an optimal weapon, but as you can jam it comfortably on your main weapon (rifle), is handy. Also great for intimidating civilians to hand over supplies to you without wastin ammo.

Broadsword/machete/fireaxe: A good heavy, slashing weapon.

You're trolling me. neutral

Nope, I just refuse to listen to all sorts of nonsense when the M-14 and FN FAL are in my opinion from my years in the military, the best ******** weapons in existance as of now. Jam a bayonet on one and I will feel invincible.

Handguns are just useless weight that can be better used carrying more ammunition for the M-14.

[FRF_Hentai_Heitai_Forever]

Ubasti

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FRF_Hentai_Heitai_Forever

M-14 or FN FAL: Semi-automatic, and large calibre rounds. A solid wood stock for bashing in heads. Also, I refuse to fire any of the feminised pansy weapons that are the 5.56mms.

Handgun: None, handguns are useless and needless weight. Carry more ammo instead.

16 inch Sword Bayonet: Note an optimal weapon, but as you can jam it comfortably on your main weapon (rifle), is handy. Also great for intimidating civilians to hand over supplies to you without wastin ammo.

Broadsword/machete/fireaxe: A good heavy, slashing weapon.

You're trolling me. neutral

I dunno. The M14 and FAL are good, reliable weapons if you can handle the weight and recoil. They also make excellent clubs in melee. It's better than having to draw a separate melee weapon. The butt on an M14 will crack a skull wide open if swung properly, and I don't see why the FAL would be any different, if a bit more cumbersome to attack with. Plus, both have civilian legal versions. I will agree on the bayonet, broadsword, and fire axe. I don't see much use. I can see the use in a machete if you are in a heavily wooded area, however.

Indeed, that's why I prefered the M-14, despite my experience with the FAL.

The Bayonet, while not optimal against a zombie, is still nevertheless a useful melee weapon that doesn't impede you. And it will be useful around civies incase you need to seize supplies from someone. Better they die then you.

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Sciamancer

3. I have NEVER seen that crazy melee weapon that's in OP. I think it might be hard to find, plus, from the looks of it, if you swing it at a zombie, it will get stuck in it. Which is veery bad.

It's not a weapon, it's an entry tool. And it wouldn't get stuck- how the hell do you get a blunt object stuck? When using it as a weapon, this part (the one circled in red) would be the striking surface-

You can't really get that stuck in anything- it would smash the skull too much.

Really though, the halligan is hard to find, and expensive when you do. In all honesty, it's pretty specialized as an entry tool, and the requirement that you have to consciously orient it before striking isn't that great in an emergency.

I prefer Fresnel's hobopipe. If I'm breaking in, I'm BREAKING in an don't need to worry about keeping the building secure, since I won't be staying there for any significant amount of time.

A hobopipe isn't going to get through a door that has a metal front and back, though. (And that's most exterior doors.)

That's what windows are for.

And it's all aluminum, it's not really THAT tough. I don't need to break the door, just the door FRAME, which is usually the weak point anyway.

[Ubasti]

FRF_Hentai_Heitai_Forever

Ubasti

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FRF_Hentai_Heitai_Forever

M-14 or FN FAL: Semi-automatic, and large calibre rounds. A solid wood stock for bashing in heads. Also, I refuse to fire any of the feminised pansy weapons that are the 5.56mms.

Handgun: None, handguns are useless and needless weight. Carry more ammo instead.

16 inch Sword Bayonet: Note an optimal weapon, but as you can jam it comfortably on your main weapon (rifle), is handy. Also great for intimidating civilians to hand over supplies to you without wastin ammo.

Broadsword/machete/fireaxe: A good heavy, slashing weapon.

You're trolling me. neutral

I dunno. The M14 and FAL are good, reliable weapons if you can handle the weight and recoil. They also make excellent clubs in melee. It's better than having to draw a separate melee weapon. The butt on an M14 will crack a skull wide open if swung properly, and I don't see why the FAL would be any different, if a bit more cumbersome to attack with. Plus, both have civilian legal versions. I will agree on the bayonet, broadsword, and fire axe. I don't see much use. I can see the use in a machete if you are in a heavily wooded area, however.

Indeed, that's why I prefered the M-14, despite my experience with the FAL.

The Bayonet, while not optimal against a zombie, is still nevertheless a useful melee weapon that doesn't impede you. And it will be useful around civies incase you need to seize supplies from someone. Better they die then you.

You couldn't just do that at gunpoint? Personally I'd rather not rob at all, but convincing you not to is futile. I know how you are about that kind of thing.

As a melee weapon, I'd rather use the butt than the bayonet. Some M14s have steel plated butts, and those can really ******** someone up.

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What the OP said...
This is gonna get me flamed from normal people! biggrin
Now, the machete is not an awful weapon. However, it's also not a great weapon. It's light, making it more difficult to chop through a skull, it has a thin blade, making retrieving it from a skull very difficult, and it's not much of a tool, either. You can't use a machete for much more than clearing roots for gardening or getting through brush, it's durable, but not really all that great. I'd say it's about average as a weapon, and a tool. If you can't get anything better, it's acceptable.

Actually, the light-weight part and the thin-blade part aren't always true.
The machete I posted earlier was a light-weight machete, but you don't want to carry a 10 lb. machete do you? (The machete I posted was around 1 1/2 lbs. That is pretty light. A regular machete is noticeably heavier. It's blade was long too, almost 2 feet long.) And the blade of the afore said machete widened gradually as it went back. Getting it out of a zombie skull shouldn't be to hard. And, the blade is usually not very sharp. (I tested that once, I had trouble cutting my skin the way a cutter would cut themselves with a knife.) It would penetrate like a blunt weapon, and go through the rest like a blade. It would also leave a noticeable crack in the skull where the blade stopped. Stabbing something with a machete isn't something I would do, but it may work. If you want to break the skull though, your going to have to be strong. If your going to attack anywhere but the head with a machete though, your going to have trouble with the bones. If your going to attack the body with a melee weapon, use a blunt weapon or an axe. (Funny... I just now realized how inferior a machete is to a halligan...)