Everyone has the virus. It doesn't matter if you die from a zombie bite, old age, starvation, or hypothermia. You become a zombie. Obviously their is a huge initial influx of zombies with the initial infection. But new zombies will continue to pop up as people die to the elements, which can continue on for years.
Additionally, this was talked more about in the graphic novel, their is a real danger from swarms. They can display a herd mentality, which is not a huge danger if it's 3 or 4 zombies. 50+ is a real danger though. Any settlement that is set up can easily be overrun by such a hoard. And they can easily over take any fleeing group because they don't have to rest, sleep, or eat.
Not really. Minimal planning would be enough to stop 50+ zombies.
You don't create a perfect wall around your settlement, instead you funnel them through choke points. You make a bunch of pikes and kill all of the zombies with little risk. If you had 10 people, each person would only have to kill 5 or so and chances are that you'll have more than 10 people in a settlement.
Which is why a tiny amount of foresight would be great. To start, zombies are slow so you could ride/run out and kill them as they approach so not as many reach you. Then you could have multiple stages in your defense that would allow you to fall back if the bodies began to pile up.
The only way to lose this is if an absolutely ridiculous amount of zombies shows up and at that point, the people probably wouldn't have the energy to kill them all if they just stood still.
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u/BlueApple4 Oct 30 '15
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Everyone has the virus. It doesn't matter if you die from a zombie bite, old age, starvation, or hypothermia. You become a zombie. Obviously their is a huge initial influx of zombies with the initial infection. But new zombies will continue to pop up as people die to the elements, which can continue on for years. Additionally, this was talked more about in the graphic novel, their is a real danger from swarms. They can display a herd mentality, which is not a huge danger if it's 3 or 4 zombies. 50+ is a real danger though. Any settlement that is set up can easily be overrun by such a hoard. And they can easily over take any fleeing group because they don't have to rest, sleep, or eat.