Madican wrote:
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Really. You think that flamethrowers, grenades, and guns are useless? Are you fucking kidding me? A rotting corpse is not more durable than a living one, which isn't durable in the first place you realize.
Come back when you actually understand what weapons do rather than claiming they're weak.
Here we go...
Flamethrowers are designed to burn the skin of foolish humans and also pretty much everything else. Once the recipient of the fiery goodness falls into shock, the rest is a cake walk. Unfortunately, the only way to kill a zombie with it is to fry its brain, which can take a while, and then there's hundreds of them. They would cause zombie problems, but they wouldn't be effective enough to be practical.
Grenades, like land mines, are intended to grievously wound over kill, since a wounded soldier takes up time, cheddar and space, crippling the enemy. Again, zombies don't wound. Direct explosion damage or shrapnel-through-the-skull is the only way to kill them with one.
Machine guns, arguably the most effective infantry weapon, is pointless since the point is to inflict massive body damage to several soldiers at once. Due to its wasteful and inefficient nature, attempting to kill a horde of zombies with them is futile. 80% of all the shots are either going to miss or hit the target's limbs and torso. All this is pointless when a few hardened, trained individuals with simple carbines are going to fare much, much better.
As for that fellow talking about zombies not being real, so? We can have a rousing hypothetical discussion just for the hell of it, can't we? Don't be a killjoy.