How did the military fall so easily?

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  • Hey at least if a zombie apocalypse happened we have our hair Lord trump dw

  • Gotta remember, in The Walking Dead, they don't know jack-all about zombies. In TWD show, we see that a lot of Military aircrafts tend to fail (cliche). And military armour isn't completely foolproof.

    Also, armour like what S.W.A.T teams wear can be resistant to Chomper bites, but I believe that after seeing others get eaten and killed, they'd rather go AWOL then try to fight a fight that they'll NEVER win.

    I really don't know how else to put it.

  • "Follow orders without question"is a stereotype of military personnel, that is out of step with reality.

    In fact military personnel, at least in the United States, are duty bound to disobey orders that are unlawful. Being ordered to kill unarmed civilians, would be an example of unlawful order.

    Of course the writers of The Walking Dead universe have never been particularly concerned with how real people would act in real crisis situations. If they were, much of the setting would not exist. Contrary to how people are usually portrayed in post-apocalyptic fiction, people don't all turn into selfish psycopaths the moment order breaks down and and they don't start robbing, raping, or murdering their neighbors. They're far more likely to band together and engage in altruistic behavior.

    Onmens posted: »

    Seems logical to me that follow orders without question type of people would have a hard time distinguishing friend from foe when it comes to zombies.

  • The novel World War Z had a scene just like that when the military tried bombing a herd (The Battle of Yonkers) and it didn't work well. Remember unless the brain is destroyed then the zombie keeps going,

    My favorite theory is that at the beginning of the apocalypse the pathogen killed and reanimated people instantly, but either through a muta

  • Mark (from season 1 episode 2) said that military base is a black hole.

  • "You really can't compare a charge of humans to a charge of zombies."

    Sure you can.

    As pointed out in my earlier post, humans are more dangerous because humans can think, are armed with weapons and are capable of shooting back, and attacks are generally made supported by mortars or artillery. Yet there are multiple examples of outnumbered defenders repulsing banzai charges with the attackers suffering tremendous casualties.

    .50 caliber machine guns would tear the limbs right off a zombie (they do that to people too), not to mention the effects artillery, mortars, and grenades would have. A position held by a military unit in a zombie apocalypse would likely put up barbed wire and claymore mines as well. A zombie horde would not stand a chance, even if it head shots were required as a finisher.

    Jimayo posted: »

    Spray and pray works against large of groups of humans. Not so effective against zombies who can ignore any bullet that doesn't strike them in the head. You really can't compare a charge of humans to a charge of zombies.

  • Soldiers are trained to kill people, zombies are a completely different threat. They're trained to aim towards the center of the body. The military has no idea what it's up against and doesn't understand their enemy, they all get ripped to pieces, even by a couple of zombies.

  • edited April 2017

    Molly Actually Fits more on Group B while she did end up a Loner later on she tried her best to Keep her Sister Alive until Crawford Killed her at which point she became a Loner.

    DabigRG posted: »

    Hmm, looks like a fun little distraction. Group A: people who will fight for normality and do what needs to be done to keep order, and

  • Except that requires an assumption of knowledge of what you are fighting.

    Humans are more dangerous, when you know they are zombies and how to defeat them.

    The military, trained to kill humans, is going to shoot the zombies the same way they do humans. Which won't stop them.

    Scaeva posted: »

    "You really can't compare a charge of humans to a charge of zombies." Sure you can. As pointed out in my earlier post, humans are more

  • True enough. I think I was mostly thinking of what the person was like when we met them.

    UrbanRodrik posted: »

    Molly Actually Fits more on Group B while she did end up a Loner later on she tried her best to Keep her Sister Alive until Crawford Killed her at which point she became a Loner.

  • Zombies are really unrealistic....

    What bothers me most about TWD is the way they approach the zombies. They are all so slow and clunky that if you all kept in a group and just made it a point to kill every single zombie you saw. The area would get clear pretty quick.

    I have way harder time with how the brain survives zero food or resources even the need to breathe.

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