ZOMBIE SLAYER: ZOMBIES!!! Your Complete Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse

The time is now to develop your skills. Learn principles and techniques that one might need to survive any type of life-threatening situation. Take survival classes, and read survival books. Take time to think about what you could do in different types of disaster situations, and make plans. Make sure your body is in peak physical condition. Not only will this make you stronger, but it will build endurance and help you keep your mind sharp in stressful type situations. This is important for any time in your life, not just in disasters. Keep your weight at a healthy level and try to exercise daily. Cardiovascular fitness is much more important than strength training.

One of the most successful components of a threatening situation is mental preparedness. The more plans you have previously determined, the easier it will be to enact them in a stressful situation. If you are emotionally prepared as well, you're more likely to break down or become infected or commit suicide out of complete despair. During the apocalypse, there will be many deaths, and much suffering, and you must be prepared to handle this type of stress and grief. You may even have to take out your best friends or family members if they become infected. You may also have to be prepared to become the last human on earth. This is a great weight on one person’s shoulders.

An alternative type of shelter that wasn't greatly discussed in the previous chapter is the secluded retreat. Avoid any handy populated areas is also as effective as boarding up in an old department store. A secluded farmhouse or cabin far out in the country makes for a defensible fortress if properly stockpiled and barricaded. Make sure you have lots of water, nonperishable food, seeds, clothing, weapons, ammo, firewood and equipment. Set up watchtowers and video surveillance if at all possible. Sleep in shifts.

Hide an emergency survival kit in a secret place that an easily accessible. This emergency kit should be in addition to your main stockpile. This bag will serve as a backup should your main source of goods be compromised. This kit should include nonperishable food, communications gear, tools, weapons, medical supplies, fire starting materials and water purification tablets. You might even want to stash multiple G.O.O.D. (Get Out Of Dodge) kits in various areas, including vehicles and bunkers. These types of bags should only include as much as the user can carry, but as a good role should contain at least three days’ worth of supplies as this is often how long it takes for outside help to arrive.

Shelters

A shelter or base is any type of location or structure that provides cover from the elements and serves as an operations headquarters during a zombie attack. It can be permanent or temporary and should provide enough space for all parties of the group sleep and store supplies. Your shelter will be one of the most important elements while trying to survive the apocalypse. When deciding where your base will be, you should establish the overall needs of the group and what kind of threat level you are facing. A good shelter should be easy to defend and large enough support the entire group. There are very specific factors that should determine the type of building you select, and there are certain disadvantages and advantages to each type.

Here is a list of possible shelter locations:

Temporary bases- these types of bases should be considered strictly temporary and last resort.

restaurants

billboards

small bunkers-for groups of ten or less. Leaves smaller footprint. Easy to defend.

farms

apartments

homes

gun shops

stores

caves

lighthouses

under an overpass

mobile bases, such as campers or RV’s

hotels

warehouses

police stations

churches

supermarkets

boats

radio stations

hospitals

malls (not recommended)

prisons

military bases

airports

Just keep in mind that nowhere is completely safe, but some places are safer than others.

When trying to decide what type of shelter you will use you should ask yourself a few simple questions.

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Is this location easily defendable/

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Is this location big enough to support the entire group?

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Is this area free of any known zombie activity?

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Can the area surrounding the base be secured quickly and easily?

The most ideal location should have as few as possible ground level entrances and window. Multiple floors are better than single level locations, as higher levels provide areas of retreat in the events the lower-level becomes compromised. One thing you should do upon securing a multilevel location is to remove the stairs and replace them with ladders that can be retreated if necessary. Create multiple escape routes that lead to the emergency supply locations.

The Other Bad Guys

In the event of a zombie apocalypse, you will have more enemies than just the undead ones. As with any natural or unnatural disaster, there will be riots, looting, and person-to-person violence. These people are often called bandits, and they will attack other survivors. These people had many different types of motives that can vary from slavery, harassment, or thievery. The size of these groups can also vary dramatically from group to group. They are can be small groups or single bandits wandering about still supplies, or highly organized syndicates looking to take over the world. The background of these other bad guys can also vary dramatically. They may simply be lone stragglers that are desperate for weapons or supplies, or rouge units of criminals who feel they are able to take whatever they want.

Some of these people have no shame and will use threats, blackmail, or violence to get whatever they want from desperate survivors. These types of criminals band together in mass numbers in times of crisis or chaos, particularly when society is at its weakest. In the event of a zombie uprising one may notice that bandit numbers rise dramatically as the crisis worsens. When pushed to desperation these people may turn to cannibalism as a means to survive. However, more than likely, they are simple civilians who have never had any type of formal training. Therefore, they could possibly be easily defeated or frightened, but as always the main objective is survival. These bandits may outnumber your group and you should use extreme discretion upon encountering one of these cells.

Groups of bandits should be avoided if at all possible. It is human nature to want to seek out other survivors and band together in large groups; however you should use extreme caution upon finding any groups who are advertising to dangerous survivors. Never attack a group of bandits unless you are pushed to the limit. Bandits rarely work alone, and will often have stockpiles of weapons. If you do engage in an attack the enemy, move out quickly and try to make the bodies look like it was a zombie attack, just in case their buddies come looking. Really fortify your base, and use extreme caution when inviting newcomers into your group. Bandits are known for sending in a decoy.

Have any massive weapons such as artillery cannons or RPG's, keep them clearly visible on your base. Bandit groups, no matter how large, will seriously reconsider attacking any group that housing a tank. If you do in fact find yourself surrounded, and outgunned by bandits, the best idea might be to give them what they are asking for. Most bandits will not attack you if it isn't worth wasting their own resources. So never advertise what you have in your stockpile.

In any event, your group should always appear to be strong and vigilant.

Strategies and Tactics

Strategy is an overall campaign, while tactics are the actual means used to reach an objective. It's an overall goal is for one country to defeat another country in a war, the main strategy could be to prevent the other country from engaging in war by completely annihilating their military. Tactics support this strategy might be surprise attacks, missile attacks, and other specific centralized attacks.