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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mirtek" data-source="post: 8396574" data-attributes="member: 40810">Slow moving unarmored infantry without any regard to tactic, self-preservation and zero ranged capability? They'd have a field day, even if they deliberately deploy for show effect rather than maximum effiency.If there ever would have been a historical conflict like that, it would have been over so quickly, if would not even be called a conflict (probably massaker or something similiar)The author tries to have his cake and eat it too by insisting that his version obeys physical reality (except for the Z-virus thing) and then proceeds to get the implications of his own premises wrong.His Zombie Survival Guide explains how his Z's are supposed to work. They're still human bodies with all the limitations of the human body (save for being hard to kill), like how it states there never has been an outbreak starting from burried dead in a graveyard since despite being zombiefied they're just human bodies and a human body is simply not strong enough to dig himself out of a proper grave.So just shooting one of those zombies in the leg will actually hamper it. The zombie is still relying on his sinew and muscles for locomotion.He might not feel pain, he might not bleed out, but by getting shot in the leg a part of those muscles and sinew are now shredded and no longer available for locomotion. And the structural integrity is now gone too. So without pain to warn him to stop, the zombie will increase the damage with every shuffling step he takes until the whole leg won't be able to move anymore soon enough.The author spends too much time pointing out how hard it is to actually kill the zombies with guns and rifles, as any hits not in the hit are supposedly  worthless. But he ignores that they would not be worthless at all. With how he choses to explain his zombies those hits would all have great effect, even if the zombie isn't dead. They are quite easy it is to incapacitate if we follow the rules he himself set for his zombies.Sure, most zombies would technically not be destroyed after the military's initial strikes, but they would be in an even less threatening state. They would not be able to relentlessly advance, shrugging of any gunfire that fails to hit their brains. They'd very soon be reduced to crawling and then just being unable to move forward at all. After that it's just a matter to not let a zombie bite you're ankle or grab your leg when when you have to unpleasant task to truly kill all those prone zombies.Even if they were to somehow swarm a tank or APC that got stuck, they would not be able to break it open. The embarassed crew would just have to wait for rescue and live with being ridiculed for the rest of their service</blockquote>

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