Dawn of the Dead Scenarios

[Damnyankee]

I thought this would be a fun topic. Has anyone ever seen the new version of the movie? Anyway, the point of this thread is to create scenarios in which you have to survive from a huge horde of Zombies. Then, you respond to the scenarios with a plan. OK, i go first. You are the President of the United States. You have evacuated from the zombie invasion to a secret bunker in Washington State. You have comand of the remaining armed forces world wide and nuclear forces still operational. Zombes have killed and converted 90% of north america, and most of the world, What do you do?

 

[Warman17]

Nuke everywhere and everything. Aim some at other nuclear powers so they do the same. Rather have humanity ended by nukes than zombies.

 

[Damnyankee]

Nuke everywhere and everything. Aim some at other nuclear powers so they do the same. Rather have humanity ended by nukes than zombies.

What if you only have about 200 nukes left considering that they have overwelmed most of the launch sites in the US and around the world along with other nations arsenals?

 

[Yuri2356]

I Agree with the nuclear mass-apocalypse scneario, as long as your secret command bunker is also a fallout shelter and contains enough people to have a chnace of repopulating after the blasts.

 

[Damnyankee]

Pretty much what I would do. Ok second scenario. The rememnants of Eastern Seaboard US forces have entered and fortified New York. An estimated 300,000 troops. The Zombies in New York had been cleared out by using a massive amount of ordinance. Manhatten has been turned into an impregnable fortress with all the bridges destroyed. 1.3 million citizens from all over have made there way there. Over time, a brutal dictatorship has evolved into the Federal Republic of Humanity. Zombies continue to exist, but they can't get to NY. However, the leadership wants to begin to take back the world. You now have 700,000 troops under you command(drafted over time from a growing pop) and 3 million people. Ordinance is limited. Isolated pockets of humanity are left all around the worl, you are in commmand.

 

[Vietcong]

a mad sicentist has created a master race of radieo active zombi monkeys, half the human race has been killed off including the sientist. u are a chimp doctor working at the zoo, and your traped in the monkey section by thousands of radieo active zombi monkeys!! all u have is a toothpic and a empty can of prigels! What do you do?!?!

 

[Scrimshaw]

Assuming anything like that is even remotely possible.

I'd order everyone to wall up and wait it out. There's no possible way rotting, walking corpses could be functional for long. After a few weeks anything that was infected will be rotted to a point where it can't do anything. Only new zombies would be any threat after that and hopefully there wouldn't be many if everyone listens to my darned orders

 

[FriendlyFire]

hide under my desk.

assuming we now know how the plague is spreading. Unrestricted nuclear strikes will in fact harm our own chances for survival. Having weighted up the damage cause by a nuke in terms of zombi killing power vs widespread radiation damage.

I also assume that the US navy is more or less intact. I would order an evacuation of surviving civilians and military to select off shore islands. To prevent contamination multiple islands will be used for quarentine. All personal will be medicaly examined and strict measures will be in place.

from there rebuilding civilisation and slow battle of attrition will be launched to eradicate the zombi infestation. Small steps for frighting and clearing isalnds, large islands and finally the mainland. I can see modified Bradly APCs being especially effective.

It would be unrealistic to try and construct walls or detailed fortifications onto the mainland as building effective walls would takes months if not years. perhapes parts of washington could be fortified in time to act as a beachhead. maufacturing surficent munitions could be a problem, as well as probabmatic food supply.

 

[Vietcong]

Pretty much what I would do. Ok second scenario. The rememnants of Eastern Seaboard US forces have entered and fortified New York. An estimated 300,000 troops. The Zombies in New York had been cleared out by using a massive amount of ordinance. Manhatten has been turned into an impregnable fortress with all the bridges destroyed. 1.3 million citizens from all over have made there way there. Over time, a brutal dictatorship has evolved into the Federal Republic of Humanity. Zombies continue to exist, but they can't get to NY. However, the leadership wants to begin to take back the world. You now have 700,000 troops under you command(drafted over time from a growing pop) and 3 million people. Ordinance is limited. Isolated pockets of humanity are left all around the worl, you are in commmand.

all my ppl die from starvation cus thers no food comeing into the island! i kill my self a sad lonly mand and the scatered remnats of my ppl flee, thay survie in small grooups acrose the world until 2124 when an asteroid hits earth and a cloud of dust blocks out the sun like praticly sraveing all life and human life ends.

 

[Vietcong]

Assuming anything like that is even remotely possible.

I'd order everyone to wall up and wait it out. There's no possible way rotting, walking corpses could be functional for long. After a few weeks anything that was infected will be rotted to a point where it can't do anything. Only new zombies would be any threat after that and hopefully there wouldn't be many if everyone listens to my darned orders

what about food??? the island has no way of produceing enofe food on its own... *has a brilant idea*unless u eat the dead!!!

 

[Oruc]

which zombies are these anyways? the fast guys or the slow movers

 

[FriendlyFire]

what about food??? the island has no way of produceing enofe food on its own... *has a brilant idea*unless u eat the dead!!!

Points out the US navy controls the seas.
As in the movie zombis do not enter the ocean. Non do they attack living animals such as dogs. Supplying a population on produce from the sea is possible, Obtaining fuel from offshore rigs as well as "floating" oil refinaries.
there are in fact numerous "remote" islands with the pacific which could provided enough argicultural food to be shipped.

Personally I would NOT put all my eggs into one basket (Manhatten island) instead manhatten will be used as a militray base and quarentine station. With the civilian population located in several offshore fortified islands to safe guard against all contingencies.

 

[Yuri2356]

Assuming anything like that is even remotely possible.

I'd order everyone to wall up and wait it out. There's no possible way rotting, walking corpses could be functional for long. After a few weeks anything that was infected will be rotted to a point where it can't do anything. Only new zombies would be any threat after that and hopefully there wouldn't be many if everyone listens to my darned orders

Yes, I believe this point was mentioned in "28 Day Later", when that British officer shows off the zombie they captured.

"He doesn't plant crops, He doesn't hunt game. He'll show us just how long it takes for the infected to starve."

Or soemthing like that.

His whole plan is just hold out in a fortress with his men and wait until all the zombies starve to death. Definately the best course of action, unless you're dealing with some kind of smart-zombie...

 

[FriendlyFire]

which zombies are these anyways? the fast guys or the slow movers

The new xombis. Due to uhhh ongoing research into undead it is deemed they are faster, semi intelligent and deadlier then previously thought

 

[FriendlyFire]

Yes, I believe this point was mentioned in "28 Day Later", when that British officer shows off the zombie they captured.

"He doesn't plant crops, He doesn't hunt game. He'll show us just how long it takes for the infected to starve."

Or soemthing like that.

His whole plan is just hold out in a fortress with his men and wait until all the zombies starve to death. Definately the best course of action, unless you're dealing with some kind of smart-zombie...

Uh this is 2005. thanks to games like resident evil and silent hill. The mutant virus which animates the zombis also grants them immortality. It lives inside the host as a symbiotic relationship keeping the dead host body in undead condition permenatly.

Also in the movie. Dawn of the dead. Our heros find a severed head in a cooler which despite being seperated from its host body is still un-alive and attempts to eat them. While scareing the pants of me. (one of the very few genuiany scarey moments in the film)

Thus one can assume months after the inital outbreak zombis are still very much uhh (un)alive. If they can survive for months without de-generation it means they can survive for years or centuries.

 

[CoolioVonHoolio]

I thought this would be a fun topic. Has anyone ever seen the new version of the movie? Anyway, the point of this thread is to create scenarios in which you have to survive from a huge horde of Zombies. Then, you respond to the scenarios with a plan. OK, i go first. You are the President of the United States. You have evacuated from the zombie invasion to a secret bunker in Washington State. You have comand of the remaining armed forces world wide and nuclear forces still operational. Zombes have killed and converted 90% of north america, and most of the world, What do you do?

commit suicide :suicide:

 

[Oruc]

Uh this is 2005. thanks to games like resident evil and silent hill. The mutant virus which animates the zombis also grants them immortality. It lives inside the host as a symbiotic relationship keeping the dead host body in undead condition permenatly.

thats not very realistic

 

[CruddyLeper]

I thought this would be a fun topic. Has anyone ever seen the new version of the movie? Anyway, the point of this thread is to create scenarios in which you have to survive from a huge horde of Zombies. Then, you respond to the scenarios with a plan. OK, i go first. You are the President of the United States. You have evacuated from the zombie invasion to a secret bunker in Washington State. You have comand of the remaining armed forces world wide and nuclear forces still operational. Zombes have killed and converted 90% of north america, and most of the world, What do you do?

Have difficulty spotting the difference?

OK, OK, how about deploying the mechanised corps to drive over and squish the hordes of mindless zombies?

 

[IglooDame]

Even an immortal dies when their head is cut off, but zombies don't? So what actually does kill them? And do they reproduce in any way besides infecting humans?

If they can't fly, swim, or operate a car/plane/boat, then they're effectively immobile, and the best way to deal with an immobile enemy is to divide and conquer. The best way to deal with a numerically superior but dumber enemy (in both the tactical information intelligence sense and the inherent thinking sense) is to set up battles where they will be drawn into killing zones (i.e. luring them up a river valley when there's a dam holding back a reservoir upstream).

Meanwhile, scientists can work on some kind of antidote, zombie-only toxin, or at least a vaccine of some sort to permit wholesale rather than retail reconquest.

 

[FriendlyFire]

Have difficulty spotting the difference?

OK, OK, how about deploying the mechanised corps to drive over and squish the hordes of mindless zombies?

Remember in the 2004 remake. A single scratch or blood to blood contact will result in zombification. As the pregnant mother who recieved only a scratch demonstrated.

A mechanised corps require vast VAST quanities of fuel. So For a time this would be a very good tactic. Cleansing urban areas with this method i dont think will work.

Before unleashing the calvary I would set fire during summer in the right conditions to large tracts of country and city. in order to minimise the danger to the military.