Walker's Worst Enemy

edited September 2012 in The Walking Dead
Stairs.

I mean really, they can barely walk, so it would make sense that it would be very difficult for them to lift their legs and walk up, at best they'd try to climb up taking much longer. Stay atop a bunch of stairs and add a few barricades at certain points and it would take forever for them to make it to you, if they even knew you were up there. Only downside would be an exit plan but that shouldn't be to hard to figure out, worst case when **** hits the fan flee to the roof, and use a homemade bridge of some sort to the next building then block off or destroy it. If Lee and Co. were to hold up in say an apartment building or something their biggest threat would be whats already inside, which if their careful they could easily take care of.

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  • edited September 2012
    In the zombie universe, physics don't apply. How could something with no muscles, or severely rotted muscles, move at all? How come bugs aren't eating them up? Oh, so many things don't make sense. It's best not to think about it too much and enjoy the story.
  • edited September 2012
    Red Panda wrote: »
    How come bugs aren't eating them up?

    Well, they do seem to attact a lot of flies.
  • edited September 2012
    In somewhat the same way a baby can crawl upstairs, I think a zombie will manage. I see them having issues going down, but I suspect gravity would give them a hand and I don't think they'll mind.
  • edited September 2012
    more like ladders
  • edited September 2012
    Yertos wrote: »
    Stairs.

    People thought that about Daleks once.
  • edited September 2012
    Stairs aren't a walker's worst enemy. I am.
  • edited September 2012
    I can remember reading about the behaviour of zombies recently and apparently Kirkman spoke out on this little nuance. This is according to The Walking Dead wikia:
    Kirkman wrote:

    "[Zombies cannot usually go up stairs]--it's decided on a case by case basis...I'm sure there's a zombie out there who could...but not very well...to reference this series--was it issue 8? Rick opens the door to the basement of that house--and zombies are waiting at the top of the stairs and rush him!...So based on that scene...zombies can go up stairs... but it probably took them a while."

    I don't think stairs would be a problem if you were being chased up them, but more so if you were being chased down them.
  • edited September 2012
    cormoran wrote: »
    People thought that about Daleks once.

    When you underestimate a Dalek, you end up EXTERMINATED!
  • edited September 2012
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    pretty sure those are zombies worst nightmare =P
  • edited September 2012
    I always thought about this. Why not just hole up on the second floor of some building and kick/break out the 1st three steps? Better yet, find a nice retractable ladder
  • edited September 2012
    I would say knights. Full on suits of armor with bastard swords and maces. Not sure horses would be so useful but I imagine a cavalry charge with them would be rather impressive.
  • edited September 2012
    funyahns wrote: »
    I would say knights. Full on suits of armor with bastard swords and maces. Not sure horses would be so useful but I imagine a cavalry charge with them would be rather impressive.

    You just gotta make sure you bought that extra horse armor DLC and your golden.
  • edited September 2012
    Zombie Handbook makes a good point on armor. You don't get eaten when covered with body armor, just swarmed and pinned down. If they never get through the armor, worst case scenario you starve to death.
  • edited September 2012
    Wow, this thread took a quick left. Didn't they use riot gear in the comics?
  • edited September 2012
    Cyreen wrote: »
    Wow, this thread took a quick left. Didn't they use riot gear in the comics?

    Yes but they lost it to the Governor, plus it made mobility and vision worse.
  • edited September 2012
    Slopes. Any kind of steep incline! While stairs have steps for Walkers to step on, slopes and steep inclines will make them gravity's ***** as they won't have anywhere to step and will keep falling down it.
  • edited September 2012
    Red Panda wrote: »
    In the zombie universe, physics don't apply. How could something with no muscles, or severely rotted muscles, move at all? How come bugs aren't eating them up? Oh, so many things don't make sense. It's best not to think about it too much and enjoy the story.

    Read The Zombie Survival Guide. Well, you dont so much read it as much as study it. It 'documents' all types of zombie facts; based on various 'field tests' conducted on Zombie. Not surprisingly, it answers everything you just asked and a whole lot more
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    edited September 2012
    Yertos wrote: »

    this.
  • edited September 2012
    Inat wrote: »
    this.

    I don't see zombies being all that worried about falling and a falling zombie would be that much more dangerous to anyone actually on the stairs.
  • edited September 2012
    Wouldn't they just use the handicap ramp?
  • edited September 2012
    Zombie Handbook makes a good point on armor. You don't get eaten when covered with body armor, just swarmed and pinned down. If they never get through the armor, worst case scenario you starve to death.

    I didn't say alone in armor. I said knights, as in cavalry group in full armor. 30 strong guys in full armor could wreck a large portion of walkers.
  • edited September 2012
    Zombie Handbook makes a good point on armor. You don't get eaten when covered with body armor, just swarmed and pinned down. If they never get through the armor, worst case scenario you starve to death.

    Dehydration kills in the span of days where starvation is months.
  • edited September 2012
    I bet you'd dehydrate faster if you're canned like spam.
  • edited September 2012
    funyahns wrote: »
    I didn't say alone in armor. I said knights, as in cavalry group in full armor. 30 strong guys in full armor could wreck a large portion of walkers.

    Nope. 30 guys in armor decapitate thirty zombies and then get tackled and smothered to death. Your best weapon against zombies is agility. Putting on a ton of metal that restricts your movement and makes you more clumsy to gain immunity against bites is like pouring cement on yourself and cutting off your legs.
    Bearcules wrote: »
    Dehydration kills in the span of days where starvation is months.

    Sorry, they die of thirst. Unless they drink the zombie guts.
  • edited September 2012
    Well stairs are deadly...

    Stairs would only work if they are those stairs which are just a little bit too far apart meaning you almost always trip over
  • edited September 2012
    Red Panda wrote: »
    In the zombie universe, physics don't apply. How could something with no muscles, or severely rotted muscles, move at all? How come bugs aren't eating them up? Oh, so many things don't make sense. It's best not to think about it too much and enjoy the story.

    Bugs dont eat zombies because they are zombies, nothing living ever eats zombies...
  • edited September 2012
    Nope. 30 guys in armor decapitate thirty zombies and then get tackled and smothered to death. Your best weapon against zombies is agility. Putting on a ton of metal that restricts your movement and makes you more clumsy to gain immunity against bites is like pouring cement on yourself and cutting off your legs.



    Sorry, they die of thirst. Unless they drink the zombie guts.

    To quote the official zombie survival guide: "you'll end up as little more than canned food"
  • edited September 2012
    To quote the official zombie survival guide: "you'll end up as little more than canned food"

    yes, because as we have learned from hundreds of years of human history, it is that armour only slows you down and gets you killed :p
  • edited September 2012
    Dependant on the situation Armour can most definitely slow you down and get you killed - one that comes to mind is Agincourt, what a blood bath that was.

    Some times a light fast outfit is much more effective than heavily armoured troops - like the Mongol invasion of Europe in the middle ages.

    Its basically 'horses for courses' and 'know your enemy and yourself'.
  • edited September 2012
    yes, because as we have learned from hundreds of years of human history, it is that armour only slows you down and gets you killed :p

    Metal armour required years of training to gain battle mobility...id be laughing at those people getting munched in the open parts of the armour as I power walk away.
  • edited September 2012
    Metal armour required years of training to gain battle mobility...id be laughing at those people getting munched in the open parts of the armour as I power walk away.

    i guess it really depends on the amount/weight of armour and you physical strength and fitness, but light to medium armour will only give you an advantage, obviously walking in a full suit of medieval plate armour would slow you down, but that type of armour was only really used on horseback, mobility has always been a big factor in the design of armour because they were designed to protect you from fully mobile humans, to think that armour makes people less effective in combat is silly
  • edited September 2012
    Metal armour required years of training to gain battle mobility...id be laughing at those people getting munched in the open parts of the armour as I power walk away.

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  • edited September 2012
    shark proof suit!!!! perfect!! and bewbs!!
  • edited September 2012
    Armored legs and arms are a good idea. Something bulky isn't. The above armor is great.
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