lets hope no dummys go into the Nuke station and thinks. "press all the buttons!"

Yes, that is true. I don't think a meltdown is much of a danger, but eventually there might be a chance of leaks developing in some of these structures that will make the surrounding area a hazard zone.

This probably wouldn't happen when the zombies are around though, just another hazard of the post-apocalyptic world.

I'd take a horse anyway.
A horse has got a few disadvantages yeah:
- Slow compared to a car
- Little protection from zombies

...but don't forget a horse has got some major advantages too:
- Much more agile than any motorized vehicle
- Suitable for all terrains, you can easily ride throuh the woods with no need to stick to roads/paths
- Doesn't need fuel
- Easy to use melee weapons while moving
- Not easily stoppable, you can sneak through small openings, or jump over road blocks etc.
- Still much faster than a zombie can ever hope to run

What I'd take:
Transportation: Horse
Item of value: Mjöllnir amulet (for all you non-heathens, that's Thor's warhammer)
Luxury item: Beer
Melee weapon: Battleaxe
Long range weapon: Huh? Who needs long range weapons anyway?:doh: I'm just gonna take a shortsword as 2nd weapon
What I'd do: Exploit my horse's advantages by moving through forests and open fields as much as possible. Then try to find some place still under human control.



EDIT: okay, now why the hell did the word "r o a d b l o c k s" get auto-censored?:doh:

Take the r and o away and you get something that if you use on this site denies Neal financial support ;)

Because zombies bite, which infects you and turns you into a zombie. Ranged weapons are the safest way to deal with them.

ah that makes sense:DL
yes, but one thing you need for ranged weapons is range. Imagine yourself surrounded by a horde of zombies and all you have is a sniper rifle. You won't last long.
Assault rifles or LMGs might be useful too, but these need to be reloaded every once in a while. Which gives the zombies the time to close in.
Besides, try accurately aiming a gun while on a horse. I'm pretty sure you won't be hugely successful.
My main tactic would be to outrun the zombies and keep distance. I'm not planning to go zombie hunting. If I somehow get surrounded/ambushed I can use my melee weapons to cut myself a way through the enemy horde.

If you're surrounded with a melee weapon and a horse, you are dead.

Melee weapons are next to useless against zombies because they're much more resiliant than you (For the same reasons they are so resistant to weapons without much stopping power), while the chances of you being infected and promptly dying and becoming another target for the rest of us is high enough.

Also, what if something scares the horse, and you get tossed off. or it stops and panics.

A horse can be very useful as a way of getting to places fast and carrying a (limited) amount of supplies, but riding it into battle is a horrible idea...

Well, then I am going to have to echo a question of August's that never got answered: What zombies are we talking about here? If we are talking about the classical walking corpses, then a blunt force melee weapon, like a baseball bat, will do a number on them. However, if we are talking those new-fangled agile and jumpy ones, then melee is certain death.

Fast zombies are no fun at all. I say we keep this to the classic zombies.

And melee would still be death in this case. You can't seriously damage a zombie with a blunt weapon, and a sword or something will only kill them if you chop the head off.

The question was answered, though not to our satisfaction.:D

hmm, I think chopping there heads off/up with a battle axe would work.

Yes, it would. Good luck doing that to a horde of zombies while avoiding being infected though...

I completely agree with that. All antagonists have to have weaknesses. Speed is the zombie's.

I don't know. Shaun of the Dead has clearly taught us that cricket bats make formidable anti-zombie weapons.