Zombies! What are you going to do when...

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Raptor1

I'm not saying a horse is not useful, but you're underestimating the value of heavy motorized transport, especially since you're trying to run a permenant safe zone with other people, where the carrying capacity of the horse would not be enough to bring enough supplies for everybody (Unless you manage to grow your own food, that is).

I suppose it doesn't matter much, if I find that my truck doesn't work as well as it should, I could probably switch it to something else; if you find your horse isn't working well enough, you could switch it to something else as well.

Oh aye, that's why I initially put Toyota Prius. Might not be a big ass truck, but has a good MPG on it, which is good and since at first you're just going up against the hordes then the only real armour you need is something to cover the windows and perhaps some kind of plough at the front to push the hordes aside. Traditional fare really though is the Land Rover or the Taliban taxi (Hilux) but they do like to drink fuel on a regular basis, so half of your cargo is going to be petrol or diesel for trips of any distance.
But yeah, when it all runs out though, it'll be horse or foot...well, or bicycle, but I'll leave that to the Dutch zombies.
Oh, and TF, they already are using the channel tunnel....we call them the French.

Actually, Turbografx hasn't got too shabby an idea there, a floating oil rig perhaps or one of the forts off the coast, but regular trips to the coast would be needed for supplies, plus you've got to watch out for crawlers coming up out of the sea. Since the buggers don't breathe any more then walking underwater (or shuffling) won't be much of a problem for them.
I think I'd stick with the castle though, at least the buggers don't have grenades or cannons...

Furthermore (I'm spamming the edit button tonight) another big problem would arise from disease in the latter stages of the outbreak. Safe water locations are going to be hard to find since decaying zombies would probably take up a number of them, so medical supplies and old hygienic practice, as well as the quarantining of any new arrivals would probably not be a bad idea.