[quote]LarryH wrote:
Still waiting to see someone or a group using spears, shields, and axes. Especially outside when there is room to maneuver. Yes, getting medieval.
But yeah, this was the most satisfying ending to date, there was really no cliff hanger.[/quote]
If you could choose the battlefield, which the Greeks did carefully, a phalanx would be a zombie grinder.[/quote]
It irks me to no end that these people live in wooded areas with soft soil and haven’t done basic things like dig ditches and place out Cheval de frise – you could quickly expand these to make large fields safe.
Is there not at least one soldier alive? Maybe someone who studied the Civil War?[/quote]
Yeah, I am not a great warrior but if you funnel them like this, attack them like that, rotate your front lines equipped with the most mediocre of chain mails…
I understand that realistically ammo would be low for most, but this show has not been all that realistic when it comes to weaponry. Daryl still has crossbow arrows FFS.
And you’d think if the wolves are raiding and trapping people that they would have accumulated a decent stash.[/quote]
Would it be? According to the way this world was written the virus took hold fast, people died or turned FAST plus they started off in the south (an ammo rich environment)so with all the ammo still in stores and gun shops and now empty police HQ’s, and local ranges, why would anyone left alive from millions to dozens be ammo deficient? I mean the shooting population of the world is now dead the ammo didn’t die with them.
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I haven’t read the comics so I don’t know how it all started other than what they showed on TWD. This is one of the aspects of Fear the Walking Dead I’m looking forward to the most.
With TWD, at this point they’re a few years post-ZA. I think most of the ammo in a realistic scenario would be either spent or hoarded by now. I can’t see there being any stashes that haven’t been claimed. However, Rick’s group always seemed to have an ample supply, even when they were nomads.[/quote]
Actually I’m only going off the TV show. I mean Rick was shot and was unconscious. A couple of weeks maybe when everything went to shit. He was still able to walk and was not really dehydrated when he woke so it could not have been that long. When he walked out of the hospital everything had already gone to Sh*t the world was zombified. From Millions to dozens and all the ammo is gone…Seems its more likely that we would have plenty of ammo or we wouldn’t have so many zombies. It just all happened to fast. But hey its TV so the writers are the gods of this world.
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My understanding is that many, many people were not resistant to the plague, died, and turned into zombies right off the bat.
It’s about a 5,000 walkers to 1 human ratio.
I am kind of an extreme weapon nut, and have maybe 50,000 rounds of various kinds of ammo at home/work/car.
And without me to open safes or various hidey holes, I have probably 2,000 that someone could find easily.
Going by ammo shot in Afghanistan to people shot, it take 250,000 rounds to kill one bad guy (because of the use of suppressive fire, which eats ammo).
I would say, it would realistically take 3 rounds to kill one zombie because they don’t take cover and there would be no suppressive fire, but head shots are a lot harder than you think.
So, yeah, I would see an ammo shortage quickly, even with people like me to supply ammo.[/quote]
But who was doing the shooting? The police station Rick went to was full of ammo the first season, and the town was overtaken by Zombies so it does not seem anyone had time to react with firepower. A virus that moved that fast that only left dozens alive to flee the towns and run to the hills. Or at least that is the world painted by writers. I would however be curious to see what happened to any national guard units on duty at the time of the outbreak. That would be a scene I would love to see the writers explain. [/quote]
You might get to see something like that…
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Fear the Walking Dead (2015â?? )
TV Series | 60 min | Drama, Horror
Not yet released (voting begins after release)
What did the world look like as it was transforming into the horrifying apocalypse depicted in “The Walking Dead”? This spin-off set in Los Angeles, following new characters as they face the beginning of the end of the world, will answer that question. [/quote]
