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Originally Posted by rian_frostdrake View Post
see, i dunno, in individual combat, yeah, in cases where you can trick a large number of them inside a structure that has been doused with gasolene and has an incendiary device set up to a cell phone, i can see it working really well , if we are going with standard stupid zombies. really id see a tape deck doing the trick, if they are "follow any noise type. you just have to make sure, that the fire wont burn anywhere important.
If you've got all that time to set that up, though, better to spend it getting away.

As demonstrated in World War Z, a lot of the things we use for killing bunches of people at a time wouldn't be as effective.


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for post clean ups though. besides, wwz zombies are really easy to survive, no climbing, dumber than standard zombies. really, hang a radio at the top floor of a building, set up amps, prep for fire, and turn on music remotely, watch them file into building, set of charge, watch from a safe distance till the building is full enough, and boom you just reduced a lot of the clean up work. wwz was ok, but some of its comments in regard to weapons were..kind a iffy, he way overrated the use of some weapons, particularly crowbars and machetes. and his clearing methods lacked imagination. and second hand sources of mine say he was way off on some of the firearms.


 

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Here's some potential problems with blowing up buildings like that to get rid of zombies:

-You are destroying infrastructure. How many buildings do you need to firebomb like that to get rid of the Zeds in a city like New York? Las Vegas? War is hell sometimes, but people in charge would be very hesitant to destroy their own buldings. Especially when the opponent is not fighting back with like tactics. If you can accomplish the same with minimal damage to your own surroundings, that would take precedent, I would imagine.

-It is a potential morale destroyer. Post cleans up, when the world would be ready to take the offensive, it would potentially be depressing if the public saw landmarks they may be familar with (no famous landmarks, but if you are from Houston and you see Houston buildings going down, you won't feel much better) go down.

So yes, it would be fun to see zombies get destroyed that way, but from a real world perspective, I can see that being a last resort sorta thing.


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If you're secure enough in that building to plant charges and get it ready to roast a bunch of zombies, why get rid of that defensible structure in the first place?

And really, I'm fairly certain that if it came to a zombie apocalypse, folks could headshot them with BB pellets instead of using all those bullets. That doesn't really have anything to do with the building fire thing, but I thought I'd mentioned it anyway. >.>


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