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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 3854269" data-attributes="member: 4937">So, how much stronger are presumed zombies than people?  20%?  50%?   I think the abilities of our hypothetical zombie need to be more tightly specified.  Personally, I wouldn't think you could bite through a skull without shattering your teeth and jaw, nor can I accept that human mucle tissue could become many times as strong as it is without accepting 'magic' as an explanation.  Obviously, having no pain response and being in a beserk state could somewhat increase human strength (at the expense of self-inflicted tissue damage), and the zombie transformation could have some enhancing effect - but I'd be skeptical of anything beyond the strength levels we see in extant animal muscle.  So maybe topped out we might get away with projecting a 100% strength increase per given amount of muscle mass, but even that's pushing it.In any event, I think 360lbs is very generous for human bites, and even bumped up 20-50% I think that modern and near future armor could provide reasonable protection.  Traditional zombies are also slow and clumsy in thier application of this strength as well, so unless we are talking about equivalent gains in speed and agility as well, I still strongly give the edge to the weapon user one way or the other.</blockquote>