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I'd take bets on who'd be first to feed the Spankster to the zombies.

For double of quits who'd be the first person Shep "accidently" shoots.

1. Mayabird
2. Me

What the hell is a gurka knife?

Concerning knives, Brooks says that they're "always useful," and definately fill a utility function. Knives have the advantage of being lighter than hatchets, so there's a plus to mobility, but have a disadvantage of being generally less lethal compared to a hatchet: you usually have to aim for a vital point on the head (temples, eyes, base of the skull) to make an easy one-strike kill. He recommends choosing a blade less than six inches, and to completely avoid serrated and saw-blade combinations.

Mind, this is also only in the role of a last-defence melee weapon and utility.

also known as the Kukri knife really long bladed like the american bowie knife, known for being damn leathal chopping blade, and used for excellent decapitation work in the novel Dracula.

Lord Pounder wrote:I'd take bets on who'd be first to feed the Spankster to the zombies.

Everyone else can do whatever the hell they want to do, including die together in a chaotic logistics explosion. Fine by me, I won't interfere. Personally I'll be following the Guide and get myself (and maybe no more than four others who care to come with me) up into northern Canada.

The Yosemite Bear wrote:also known as the Kukri knife really long bladed like the american bowie knife, known for being damn leathal chopping blade, and used for excellent decapitation work in the novel Dracula.

Given the guidelines I summed up above, he would probably reject it totally. A hatchet would be more practical.

I know where all the gunshops and hunting stores in Toronto are. I'll probably be the guy involved with sending people off to loot the stores for guns & ammo.

Best bet would probably be to hijack a few ferries and use the Toronto Islands as the base of operations, it even comes with an airport for flying in supplies. After that, I don't know, I'll let the guys with military experience plan things out.

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:

The Yosemite Bear wrote:also known as the Kukri knife really long bladed like the american bowie knife, known for being damn leathal chopping blade, and used for excellent decapitation work in the novel Dracula.

Given the guidelines I summed up above, he would probably reject it totally. A hatchet would be more practical.

it's actually calsified as a machete type knife, along with the bowie, which contradicts what you already said...

The author of the Guide also seems to think that an M249 is a heavy machine gun. Verifying that he knows what the hell he's talking about in any given instance would be far wiser than mindlessly following his every utterance.

The possibilities of a large group outfitted with full riot gear holding choke points and handing off duty as the front line guys get tired doesn't even get touched on, except to mindlessly mutter about armor being bad.

The Yosemite Bear wrote:

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:

The Yosemite Bear wrote:also known as the Kukri knife really long bladed like the american bowie knife, known for being damn leathal chopping blade, and used for excellent decapitation work in the novel Dracula.

Given the guidelines I summed up above, he would probably reject it totally. A hatchet would be more practical.

it's actually calsified as a machete type knife, along with the bowie, which contradicts what you already said...

I don't know, I figured with how fucked up it looked, it was more analogous to a hatchet. Doesn't matter, since it would probably be recommended to use a real machete anyway, over a unique exotic.

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:

The Yosemite Bear wrote:also known as the Kukri knife really long bladed like the american bowie knife, known for being damn leathal chopping blade, and used for excellent decapitation work in the novel Dracula.

Given the guidelines I summed up above, he would probably reject it totally. A hatchet would be more practical.

It is technically a style of machette. Also it's actually designed for a variety of purposes, woodcutting for example. Think of it as a combat orientated cousin to a hatchet...

I see.

So... Who is the list of "survivors" as it stands?

particularly consider it a hatchet/knife with centuries of practical use in decapitation, and being often forged from truck suspensions or heloblades has a serious hard enough backing that it won't break. infact it was feared by the japanese in WWII more then flamethrowers.

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:I see.

A machette is primarily designed for the same job, hacking through undergrowth. The kukri also is designed for use as a sort of utility knife too, they usually hold a better edge than a machette and can be used for other tasks such as skinning on top of their use in combat and clearing.

Plus in a pinch they're good for busting open a tin of beans.

and many of us have seen Gunn Ermy use one to slice clean through a watermelon lengthwise...

A khukri would go down a treat.

well my whole point of bringing them up is that my stepdad has over 3 dozen of them in his house....

That doesn't help us in this scenario however, where we start UNPREPARED in a location which is not home for probably 90% of the participants.

So, just to get an idea I want the top 3 items that people think of for each category which could be obtained with ease in Toronto.

Melee:

Ranged (non-firearm):

Firearms:

Protection:

And for the locals - Shelter:

Okay; first thing we need to do is get organized. The impression the OP gives me is we're in a catering hall of some sort, a big banquet hall; I infer that it'll be relatively formal, and I expect the first hint we'll have of a zombie breakout is someone looking out the windows and seeing the things lurching along the street, if not people fleeing into the building.

The first thing, therefore, is to figure out: who's going to be in charge? As pointed out before, Rob Wilson and Jegs2 are good candidates. Assume, for a moment, Jegs defers to Rob because of superior position on the board (I know, flimsy reason; bear with me). What, then, is the organization Rob Wilson implements onto the group? Would the natural social hierarchy from the boards carry over into real life?

I'm one of the members within range, I live in scarborough.

I think the toronto island idea would be a good one, holding the airport there shouldn't be too difficult, and odds are that the infection wouldn't have spread to there are not too bad.

Technically speaking, everything connected by land is "within driving range"

weemadando wrote:So, just to get an idea I want the top 3 items that people think of for each category which could be obtained with ease in Toronto.

Melee: Axes, hatchets, and aluminum ballbats, available at all Canadian Tire stores and lots of other places. Police cars are also a good bet, solid full-size cars with ram bumpers.

Ranged (non-firearm): Molotov cocktail. Firetrucks for hosing down the zombies & running them over. Can also be used to hose them down with fuel before lighting them up.

Firearms: Shotguns. Other than that I'm not sure.

Protection: Hockey gear, but with a full-face helmet and armoured boots.

And for the locals - Shelter: The Toronto Islands are probably the best bet. There's buildings & houses there and the ferry boats we hijacked to get there can also serve as. Last time I checked, zombies don't swim too well.

Pearson airport's another possibility. We'll have to block off a few roads but it shouldn't be too hard to secure the place. Lots of shelter for everyone, plus we can have a few planes standing by to get us out of there fast in case things really go wrong.

3rd choice, don't know.

Guess I'll be one of the guys there. Load me up on 9mil's and Shotguns...I am teh suxxor at rifles.

And we should have a military-type in charge, Jegs is the senior active duty guy on the board, so it's him.