in the time of chimpanzees, i was a monkey

[The Magic Pudding]

It seems you have to have a nose to smoke, just be thankful it's too late for a white goat with round glasses.

[Asmodean]

It seems you have to have a nose to smoke, just be thankful it's too late for a white goat with round glasses.

Ah! But you seem to have forgotten that the events take place in Asmodean's perfect world thoughtbubble  

[The Magic Pudding]

Ah! But you seem to have forgotten that the events take place in Asmodean's perfect world thoughtbubble  

But how can I possibly conceive of this Asmodean thougtbubble without first turning into insentient clay?
Anyway there are probably lots of people that want you dead in however a fictional a reality you create, so some body doubles are worth an internet or two.

[Asmodean]

Anyway there are probably lots of people that want you dead in however a fictional a reality you create, so some body doubles are worth an internet or two.

Oh, there are a lot of murderous survivors hellbent on not letting Asmodean the Thoughtbubbly get his world domination, but... The plans are in motion  

[Jolly Sapper]

hehe.. working on a farm as we speak.  

The missus has a fairly large supply of seed stock and her older brother is a bit of a gun nut.  So me and the wifey do what we can to evac her older brother his wife and their six kids (She's catholic).  Fortify the house and the yard where we currently have 150 chickens and 25 ducks and 8 dogs and a fairly sizable garden.  Maybe if the threat level was low enough we'd barricade the horses and the goats into their barn.  When the threat level in the immediate vicinity (probably somewhere between line of site and half a mile) is low we'd make contact with the neighbors and work out the logistical supply side of things, clean potable water, bathing water, reloading supplies, watch towers, generators/recharging supplies for portable electrical devices like walkie talkies, organize a QRF (probably mounted on horses to conserve on fuel), work on getting fuel and motor vehicles secured so as to be used for the heaviest of lifting or a mass evac if/when needed.  I guess I'd have more time to relearn all the stuff in my Combat Engineer bible and finally put to use all of the really old "How to do damn near anything" books that my wife and I have the nasty habit of collecting and never reading.

If we survived, cool beans, if not, oh well.

[Extropian]

Asmodean,
                 Step 2: killing spree, with the zombified people who are high on my deathlist going first.

                 Can't help wondering who's at the top of your deathlist and who else is listed besides zombies.

[xSilverPhinx]

Difficult to say, other than I would first focus on fortification, strategy and then attack.  :|

[The Magic Pudding]

Asmodean,
                 Step 2: killing spree, with the zombified people who are high on my deathlist going first.

                 Can't help wondering who's at the top of your deathlist and who else is listed besides zombies.

If I was you I wouldn't worry too much about that.  
Not when people who ask disrespectful questions go on to the list for prolonged exquisitely tuned torture.

[proudfootz]

I suppose I'd probably fight for my life at first, but I live in a heavily populated area - things could get real sticky between panicky living and hordes of the undead.

But being busy would make the time pass quickly...

[februarystars]

Offer them cookies.

[Twentythree]

Clearly long term strategy would entirely depend on the natural decay rate of the undead, and whether or not they can sustain themselves on anything other than human flesh or brains. If zombies starve to death or decay quickly then employing a mobile strategy would work best, not allowing the hoards to zero in on your location. I’ve always thought this to be a more desirable strategy, yet in most Zombie stories survivors have this uncanny knack to get trapped inside someplace. Often it’s a place loaded with supplies, like a shopping mall, other times it’s just a small house out in the country. On the other hand if the zombies are long lasting or can feed on various other living things, then a counter offensive would be necessary. I’ve often thought that the best counter offensive to a zombie invasion would be fire. Fire is often an underutilized resource in combating the undead, flammable materials of all types are in abundance to us, so much more so than guns and bullets that I can’t see how fire, i.e. Molotov cocktails, Styrofoam napalm, torches, burning tires, would not be a more desirable weapon than guns.

The way I see it any survivors you collect you can use as bait, including yourself. In many zombie stories the undead seem to have trouble with the basics of opening doors so getting a large confounded crowd of them to surround a structure seems to be fairly simple. After you’ve amassed your crowd, get to the roof and see to it that generous amounts of flammable fluids are poured down on the onslaught. To make this more efficient you could soak toilet paper or paper towel rolls in the flammable fluids, you could also use towels blankets and any other type of porous materials to add to the fuel. The fuel could be a simple as cologne or rubbing alcohol, oven cleaner, or anything else with a flammable warning on it. Then just light the bastards up. As a matter of fact by that point many of them may be leaking their own flammable materials in  the form of methane or other gasses associated with decomposition. Starting fires is easy, shooting a charging bloodthirsty undead freak precisely in the head while running away…frighteningly more difficult.

[xSilverPhinx]

Fire is a good one actually, cheap stuff.

...shooting a charging bloodthirsty undead freak precisely in the head while running away…frighteningly more difficult.

Though using movies as a reference, zombies hardly ever move very fast. You could run circles around them and shoot them many times over.

[Asmodean]

Asmodean,
                 Step 2: killing spree, with the zombified people who are high on my deathlist going first.

                 Can't help wondering who's at the top of your deathlist and who else is listed besides zombies.

If I was you I wouldn't worry too much about that.  
Not when people who ask disrespectful questions go on to the list for prolonged exquisitely tuned torture.

When I rule the world, Pudding will be my minister of evil deeds  

[JuggernautJon]

Difficult to say, other than I would first focus on fortification, strategy and then attack.  :|

Boring, yes. But textbook, nonetheless.

[JuggernautJon]

Those cookies look spectacular, by the way.