Zombies happened. First shock is over, and you are responsible a defence of small town. This town has 15 000 people. 5000 of them are elderly, sick and children, so workforce is 10 000. 3000 of them are spared to defence and scavenging, rest are farming and taking care of the other 5000. Ammunition supply is running low, and smokeless powder has already been used. Your location is easily defencible and you have access to some resources, like solar panels (looted from roofs), lathes, cnc-mills, drills, welding machines. How do you arrange things? How is production organized, how do you equip everybody?
A ditch, wire and heavy wood poles dug into the earth will defend against 99% of zombies, you can just poke them to death from a safe distance. You make crossbows, spears and hand axes with a spike on the other end. Every family gets this equipment, the man or whoever is most physically capable of handling defense uses them when on patrol or in the fields. You set up tall watch towers in the fields and have two people on watch while the rest work. Your zombie kill teams are equipped with those weapons plus stuff like mancatchers and nets to restrict zombie movement. Bicycles for road patrols and looting runs, eventually try to get them to everyone so time is used much more efficiently.
>>65113554Yeah and what if they walk into the ditch
>>65113557you poke them to death when they're on lower elevation and have trouble climbing out
>>65113535Probably like that 28 years later movie
The TV show The Walking Dead showed a lot of the answers to this. Strengthen gates/walls and put people on guard duty. Secure your food and water supply. Make a lot of spears for people to stab zombies through fences and at any gates. Put old people and kids in the most secure spots. Set up radios to communicate with other towns and also within your community. Figure out what kind of zombie situation you have and how dire it is. Send out small groups of capable people to gather supplies from abandoned areas. Once the zombie plan is essentially solved, your main problems are going to be internal strife in the community and external attacks from other communities.
Zombies? Just dig some trenches and erect some watch towers. Centralize the weakest villagers in a fortified location like the school gym. If ammo is low you make spears in a hurry but if there’s 15,000 people somebody has some metal working skills and pikes can definitely be produced. From there you just have some scrubs walk around patrolling the pits to kill the wounded and clear out the bodies. If they try to press the main gates you can easily hold them with 20ish guys. As time goes by you can improve fortifications. The labor is going to be a pain in the ass but after the early investment it’s a piece of cake. Maintaining discipline with the gate guards, stripping and inspecting the scavengers for bite wounds, and making sure the sewage and food keep cycling is the hard part honestly.
>>65113564TWD world has the added complication of anyone dying becoming a zombie. Bedrooms need safety mechanisms so if an old person dies the zombie can only kill whoever else is in there but can't open the door to leave.
>>65113535Fuck the zombies to death3001 zombies at a time
Kek. In the time it took me to write my post the same exact answer was produced. Zombies are a bitch ass threat desu. The question is how do you infiltrate and raid those faggots over in Butler and Pawnee? They’ve got resources and their football teams suck bro. Fucking bitch ass Pawneets.
>>65113568>TWD world has the added complication of anyone dying becoming a zombie.Literally so did the first zombie movie, i dont know if that counts as an added complication when it's more of a given
>>65113573It's a complication since it doesn't happen in most zombie scenarios and makes defending from attacks from within more difficult if solvable. Every domicile needs to be designed with it in mind.
>>65113535>World ends>We're going to le farmKek you have no idea. All the inputs are global and many come from our only real national threats. You're never going to "just farm" post global supply chain collapse. People really underestimate how much is involved in feeding the world. It's basically a handful of companies making everything.There's only two or three companies that I know of that even sell heritage seeds that have any chance of surviving in something like a small garden setup.
>>65113651You just shackle yourself to the wall/bed/whatever every night and unlock yourself when you wake up. Piece of piss.
>>65113660>There's only two or three companies that I know of that even sell heritage seedsWhich are?
>>65113662people aren't going to be okay with that, an zombie-proof door latch is a lot more reasonable
>>65113562>>65113554How about black powder, not just crossbows? Could one produce some battle rifle variant that could handle BP? If not, just bolt-actions then
>>65113698Sure, they could. It's just not really necessary and should be saved for emergencies like attacks from other humans rather than regular use.
Read world war z and there was an idea of using castles and castle like construction to survive summer and when winter and frost arive they went outside castle walls to kill every frozen zombie they could and salvage as much material and food to prepare for another year. If u want pseudo documentary about war with zombies I recommend to read that book (movie is trash and completely different). In some places book is funny and borderline unbelievable (Jews making peace with Palestinians or completely forgotten abundance of firearms in united States) but it's still nice and easy to read
>>65113535Nobody's yet mentioned setting up protected boomboxes at strategic distances to lure the zombies away. Would make clearing operations much less risky and establish a broad safe zone.
>>65113535>town of 15k>ammo already running lowWhat shit ass part of the country do you live in? There's enough ammo in Reidsville alone to kill everyone in the Piedmont.
>>65113535>jerry rig a dozen or so nigger whipper 9000s with whatever fuel you get>leave them running while a horde approaches>spend zero ammozombies are so fucking stupid man, genuinely the most retarded "apocalypse" possible. it's like a riot that can't run, can't use weapons, can't set anything on fire, can't throw objects, can't climb, can't bring down barriers, it's only scary if you're a fat retard who gets scared of being at the mall at peak hours.
>>65113892wiki commons can eat my ass
>>65113535>small town>15,000 peoplewhat
>>65113535I leave with my own supplies I brought in. No way in hell am I leading thousands of hapless ding dongs, many of which are like me.
>>65113660> t. guy who's never been to the south east or midwest.Dude you have no idea lmao. The amount of independent farmers is INSANE. People would have no problem growing things. Add hunting and scavenging, boom, easily done.
>>65113535In the area I'd pick it'd be a cake walk simply due to the geography. There's a grand total of two actual paved roads in and they go through canyons and mountains no zombie is going to be scaling. In no way would ammo be running short. Probably enough guns ans ammo there to wipe out half the country if you stick to one shot one kill. I'd be effectively running the defense of 4-5 towns due to the nature of the area and it would easily be self sufficient for basic needs. Plenty of solar and a small hydro-electric dam. Plenty of local expertise that can go into planned developments.>build fortifications in the two major chokepoints>direct loggers and mills to increase production of lumber.>shore up necessary infrastructure such as water treatment>tell farmers to keep at it>directing livestock farmers to rear more beasts of burden alongside their meat stock>build a simple hydroponics facility>build robust but very comfortable quarantine sites out of apartments>begin production of spears and train residents in their use>train a select group on the use of man catchers>have local hunters drill marksmanship and ammo conservation into recruits because zombies can't be suppressed>work out horde protocols even though it's highly unlikely they could even get to us>build mobile barriers that can be moved by hand or with a vehicle then easily locked down>begin local production of black and smokeless powder because it's not fucking witchcraft>demolish abandoned or unlivable houses for materials>dig deep unclimbable trenches around town with a gentle slope in and tall vertical on town side for each town where needed/applicable>build emergency stronghouses>build new fire watch towers, reactivate old ones>build and train horseback "Scout Raider Corps" for local patrol and regional gathering>live a comfortable but simple life in a fairly self sufficient well defended region>15k>smallThe entire county I'm thinking of barely has half that population.
>>65113535THIS IS A REALLY NICE RIG. I already have the mess kit and sword.Can you provide any links to this?
>>65114058This
>>65113535>Captains in open fields,>on their foes rushing,Gentlemen seconds them,>with their Picks pushing.>Ingyniers in the Trench,>earth, earth up-rearing,>Gun-powder in the mynes,>Zombies up-blowing.We're going back to pike and shot. Matchlock BP shotguns and swivel cannons, mounted lancers and Reiters with what modern guns we have, pike formations, defensive earthworks, and landmines.
>>65114142Sorry, I dont have anything more. Just picked the pics from somewhere. I suspect its some one-of-kind leatherwork project
>>65114138Amazing what using more of the sage greens instead of having so much tan could've done with the UCP's color scheme. UCP was legitimately close to being an incredibly awesome rocky mountain/canyon pattern and they blew it with terrible color balancing.
>>65113660Anon you have no fucking idea what you are talking about. There are hundreds, maybe even up to tens of thousands, of businesses and other entities growing, keeping and selling seeds in the US. Universities all have seed banks. Baker creek, MIgardener, Johnny's, Fedco, Southern Exposure and a few local Amish growers are all people I've bought from this month alone. I know you've grown fuck all because your fixation is on seeds instead of, oh I don't know, the industrial npk supply (or the fucking 2-3 acres per person needed to reliably feed everyone). Gonna need to grow a fuck load of nitrogen fixers too. I am willing to hand waive some bullshit, maybe this community has good composting and access to mules and plows and a few tractors or something to at least mean every swinging dick doesn't have to be a subsistence farmer.
>>65113535>zombiesGrow up
>>65114164Thanks. This is what I've been looking at. Pretty expensive when you add in all the options.https://thewildbuckoutdoors.com/collections/belts
>>65113535Chain link fence and a few guys with spears. They try to climb the fence, you spear them through the gaps.
>>65113707> Read world war zDon’t. Max Brooks is a noguns faggot. And also a Jew.
>>65113535> 3000 of them are spared to defence and scavengingLol wut?
>>65113570>Fuck the zombies to death
>>65113570>>65114971Kino
>>65113535combine harvester with a couple of drones
>>651136622 hours later I'll be pounding you in the ass.
>>65113535I surround the key entry points with a car tire obstacle course. Zombies will be hopelessly caught up in them making for easy kills. If cars need to come in and out we can lay down some wood or metal sheets then collect them after. Everyone fights, or I’ll kill them.
