personally, I'd drive a reinforced 4x4 to a gun store and go into my loft (attic for americans) with a months supply of food and a generator for a laptop so i can keep ocupied. After the month, the laptop would work as a way to send a S.O.S. . If it gets to a point where they get as intelegent as they are in land of the dead and they can use ladders, then, i'm f'cked.

I'd willingly join the zombie horde as I've secretly wondered what it's like to be a cannibal.

Bakahead:
I'd willingly join the zombie horde as I've secretly wondered what it's like to be a cannibal.

I pray you don't live in england... You scare me XD

See, I'm pro-gun-legislation.

I think it's great that, even in London, I still only get mugged at knife point.

Downside, though, that - and if games have taught me anything, it's this - come the inevitable zombie apocalypse, a shank ain't gonna come between the living dead and my brains.

In which case, there seems little choice other than to head to the my local town centre and fashion some rudimentary barricade of market stalls, cars and mobile phone shop employees (they might as well do something useful in their lives) and bombard the zombie hoards with the two most toxic substances known - hot, used chippie oil and the concentrate syrup which gets sprayed out as coke and lemonade in pubs and bars.

Buy a boatload of medicine and feed it to the zombies. Haha, yay RPGs.

We've got one of these already, thanks. It is always a fun idea to run around with though.

Hide. Just stock up on food, take out the staircase leading to my house, and hide. So long as I don't get the I Am Legend/28 Days Later Olympian athlete zombies I should be safe. If I do get attacked by them, I'd gladly join them because if you've got to be a zombie, don't be the slow, retarded one.

As I am certain that this will happen one day. I'm making sure I live in a properly safe house (glass doors and large windows are a big nono). With my baseball bat in hand and plenty of stored food, I shall smack way, trying to find survivors and picking up the conveniently dropped automatic weapons that will (and I mean WILL) be lying around.

Go upstairs, fill every room with food and gun ammunition, and take out the stairs, then just sit at the top of the stairs shooting the zombies. Or call Kurtis on your cell phone XD

sirdanrhodes:

I pray you don't live in england... You scare me XD

Sorry mate, but I do live in England (well Northern Ireland anyway, but a small stretch of water isn't going to deter us undead now).

Grab half the guns in the south (and ammo to shoot off), large stores of food and means to make more, shoot, slash and curse my way tot he gulf of mexico and make for the cayman islands, in which i would slaughter every zombie in that tiny island and rebuild society from that point onwards, because tropics beat a mountain valley which enshrines you from snow and normalcy.

Well.... when the zombie horde decides to take over humanity

First of all I will call Bruce Campbell

Then I will study all occult novels to learn the spell Cure and Life as we now know via FF that the undead die very quickly with life regenerating magic spells

Then I will go to the local Wal-mart or Military supply store and loot the bloody place, gathering all weapons and ammo and smut magazine.....nvm......

I will then barricade myself in a very high inconspicuous and very hard to reach area and snipe all nearby roaming undead

When I run out of ammo and food.....I will have Bruce use the Necronomicon to summon the portal with the CORRECT FUCKING WORDS....and banish the evil that has enslaved humanity

Why didnt I do that before? Cause i wanted to have some fun and learn magic spells

And let us not forget to stay WELL away from any large shopping malls or walkie-talkies with an old man called Otis on the other line...

'If zombies took over the world, what would you do...'

pretty much see this every week to be honest at my local rock club, so not a lot

well seeing as im in the south...there's no shortage of ammo or guns with all the deer hunters and other game hunters. there's shotguns everywhere! id post up in the my house with 2 or 3 shotguns, as many shells as i could, punch a little hole in my attic to snipe out of it with .223 or .308 and have a little shooting gallery. it would be great fun i think. oo and i could weld a big massive blade to an suv and drive around hitting them!

Well, one of my points would be storming a pub, getting as much vodka bottles as possible (also, empty bottles), using the ones with alcohol as Molotov cocktails. The empty ones: go to a Gas station, fill up with petrol, and as before but with enjoyable smell.

I only hope the zombie invasion will be made up of slow moving zombies, not the sprinting/acid spitting ones.

It's a really hard question because we don't know the spread rate of the zombies, their global pattern or how the Government would react.

Assuming that it was a slow outbreak like Shaun of the dead:

I would get those close to me and we would make our way to the nearest Land Rover dealer. I would take two of the the new top of the range, Range Rovers.

From there we would need supplies, the town centre would be far too dangerous. I would head for the army surplus store, much less dense area. Keep the engine running, one person on top of a car watching, one person watching out on the ground. Two go into the store and grab as much as possible. Body protection, first aid kits, ghille suits, night vision googles, generators, batteries petrol cans, cb radio, wind up radio, portable tv and weapons out to the cars as quickly as possible.

From there i would head out of town to the nearest gas station. It is likely it would be abondoned with zombies not far away but cars in the way. Keep one car running fill up the other and more petrol cans, then switch. Grab coal and firewood from the forecourt, money and supplies of food, water and basic medicines from inside as well as air freshners*.

*With blacked out windows air freshners would help disguise your group's scent and help prevent detection.

I would try to stop at an out of town hardware shop. Grabbing as much useful material as possible; car batteries, regular batteries, puncture repair kits, motion sensing alarms, tool kits, wood and metal.

I would head out of town gaining intel from the radio, cb and tv. Depending on the situation it is highly likely that the military would have containment in mind although it would be across the whole world so it would be a defensive. While the military would provide excellent protection they are too difficult to predict. Unless I had attained assurances from a commander over the cb radio I would stay away from military bases and checkpoints.

Ideally you want to be holed up in an isolated country building. High altitude and cold temperature helps becuase it inhibits the progress of the zombie horde. Alternatives would be a small town bank, pharmacy or police station. Banks and pharmacies generally have excellent built-in security. However, the police might react similarly to the army, the bank would likely be on emergency lockdown and the pharmacy locked down to a lesser extent.

A country building is likely to have a cellar, great defensive position. Bar up the house and install motion sensors. I would try to wire up a defence system. The car should be parked sideways against the front door with the window open for ease of access in an emergency. Take shifts as look outs in the ghille suits, with air freshners and night vision in the dark.

From there you would have to monitor the situation. Get more supplies etc would need to split up but keep in conact over cb radio.Sooner or later the zombies would be gone unless they found you. And getting out of that is another story entirely!

If they've already taken over the world I'd go for the Lovecraftian way out and shoot myself in the head. If the outbreak has just started it depends.

If it's magical zombies I'd assume we're popped into the Constantine universe (why there is no Constantine tv-series I cannot understand), so I'd search out some Sami mage or something and have him teach me how to stop it all in an afternoon (unless it's spread over several issues).

If it's medical zombies I'd get to FOI (the defense research institution) and get myself some haz-mat equipment. Then I'd hunt down a busload of canned food (to make sure it's not infected by anything, or, reduce the risk of it anyways). Finally I'd lock myself in a bombing shelter, because if they are medical movies zombies they sustain themselves only on human flesh, which doesn't last very long before they have to move on or die. A few years ought to do it. Governmental action is always underestimated in these affairs anyways. I'd say the problem would be taken care of within a few days without me doing much of anything tbh : P

Interestingly, lots of people seem to think we have a complete gun ban in Sweden, but I've come to understand that there are acctually a lot of them around, especially up here in the northern parts with a lot of hunters about. If I really, really felt the need to lower my chances of survival I guess I could go get a ton of guns and park my ass on some rooftop, picking them off until they swarm me twenty minutes later...

My plan would probably be similar to the one Andy has in Dawn of the Dead, with lots more food, a helicopter and a private island.

Failing that probably the Shaun of the Dead strategy and just pretend to be one...

Id go over my grandmothers house since it has a bomb shelter in the basement and they have more weapons then the Police..lol so i think id be set for at least a year.

Kill about 50 zombies and still ask "WHAT'S GOING ON AROUND HERE?"

Also spread some herbs out on paper and slather them on any wounds.

Leave the world. Easy.

I'd nip round to a house a few streets away from me that has an arsenal of weapons. Brits might know it as the house that got raided a while back that had about 20 semi and automatic rifles and about 50 pistols, that turned out werent illegal somehow despite being live.

Raid nearby newsagents and anywhere that sells food and camp down in my nearby primary school that has 10ft high fences and a convenient bell tower for sniping.

If zombies are subject to the laws of physics, finding a hiding place with a lot of food and water and hide for two weeks or so should do it - constantly moving around like they do require way too much energy, much more than a person has without eating regularly. And unlike what many seems to believe viruses can not conjure energy out of nothing.

Seeing as zombies very rarely are subject to the laws of physics, I'm afraid I'd have to look for a more lasting solution. Here in Norway we have a low population density, a tradition for owning cabins in the middle of nowhere and plenty of islands so I would stock up on supplies and either find a cabin high up in the mountains, or an island. I'd either hunt or fish for a living (there will be no lack of fish if human civilization becomes exterminated). And of course I would always look for more survivors - the more the merrier.

i would have to go with the hide on an island plan, either that, or a plan based on the "deathlands" books writen under the name james axler.

Well, if they take over the world (which is kind of an unspecified situation, but on the other hand perhaps that was your meaning). Your statement implies that i possess the knowledge of that they have taken over the world and not just my town/country/continent. Anyway, if i was the sole survivor i would probably commit suicide.

rightydo, here's my plan of attack:

first, i plan to board up the house with the only exit somewhere up high which also allows me to get to other places. then, i get some power tools or other sharp/heavy/blunt/owey things and defend myself from the window, being the pussy i am.
or, i could go to a friend's, hide over there and either wait till rescue, death or coming very close to the first, only to encounter the latter.
but there's a lot i could do, and shit me if i know any better ones in about 5 minutes.

I'd go by the hardware store, a supermarket and a game store, take what I need and want (*take*, since money doesn't seem to matter when cannibals run around) and go hide in a shack, out in the woods. Then wait for winter (only 8 months) and go shatter some frozen zombies.

Max Brooks' Zombie Survival Guide and my common sense observations tell me what I must do...

Cower in my house with my stockpile of beef jerky, biltong, bottled water and kendal mint cake, an arsenal of swords, ironwood sticks & machetes and hope either my pistol crossbow or my .22 air rifle will go through a human skull (sassafragging UK gun laws...firk ding blast)
because I know a pitched battle against large numbers at close range will almost certainly be fatal for me.

Later, when food reserves start running low, put my ruck (with integral camelbak) on, get on my bike and scout about to see if I can find any dead SO19 officers or yardies to pinch a real gun off.

What kind of Zombies are we talking about? Slow moving shuffling reanimated corpses like all the 80's films depict, I'd simply learn to walk a little faster, and carry a pistol. Otherwise, life as normal.

T-Virus Zombies or Rage Virus cannibals I'd probably go out to sea to avoid.

Here in holland we have a couple of islands that can only be reached during low tide. A fast buggy is able to cross the floodplains within that timeframe but the zombies will take a salt bath every time they try. They vary in size between 13k inhabitants/potential zombies but with hospitals and food supply's and completely abandoned.

Probably make my way down to my truck or my mom's BMW using my katana, then drive to the local shopping mall and hide in the cutlery store.

I would walk at a brisk pace to ensure that the rotters never caught me. If I'm feeling brave, I'd tie two zombies together, throw them over the bridge and pop back from time to time to see who eats who first. I would ensure that I make my living as a post-apocalyptic book-keeper, playing the harsh barter and chasing debtors with a severed zombie head (sorry mum) that I have secured to a radio controlled car (won in a bet) using some masking tape (won in a bet). The unlucky ones will be tied to a table while the car-head inches closer to their appendages (sorry mum).

Rob

PS I could do with some more batteries (sorry mum)

Purple Pims:
I'd go by the hardware store, a supermarket and a game store, take what I need and want (*take*, since money doesn't seem to matter when cannibals run around) and go hide in a shack, out in the woods. Then wait for winter (only 8 months) and go shatter some frozen zombies.

God damned global warming!

FIRST AND FOREMOST: shoot Steve Burnside from RE code veronica and that'll relieve some of the stress from zombies coming atcha with badbreath.
2)I like the "teamup with Bruce Campbell" idea, kutos! and maybe the A-team, the T-2000 and one of those anime samurai that don't seem to have a "range" to their sword slices.
3)SHOOT STEVE BURNSIDE
4)see 3
5)fart in their general direction and possibly surround myself with traps that stupid zombies would walk right into.
6)Train a lethal bunch of zombie-eating penguins, sitback and watch the party while playing "Benny Hill" music