I personally can’t imagine anyone surviving long-term around running zombies. Even if fighting them was relatively easy, it’s statistically inevitable that sooner or later you’d get bitten. This applies to walking zombies too, but at least with them, you have the option to avoid physical altercations altogether, at least for the most part. That’s what I think most TV shows get wrong about zombies: even if there’s just one, and you could easily take it down, just don’t. It’s almost never worth the risk. In my view, the best way to survive is to avoid them as much as possible. Fighting is the last resort and should only be done in self-defence.
Ammo might be a pain in the ass. But standing atop a tall wall with a pike stabbing down into skulls would probably work well.
Plus a good fire pit to burn the bodies so other diseases don’t crop up.
I’ve kind of wondered if you could make a sustainable fire using only zombie bodies. They could be an interesting source of fuel.
Bodies don’t actually burn well at all. Even dried out bodies more smolder (people used to burn mummies, among other really silly things they did to them) than burn.
So, you can definitely make a pyre to make sure any flesh is gone, but the zombies won’t make good fuel.
Fair enough. It’s mostly just for preventing the rotting corpse from festering diseases.