1. Chainsaws are good for two things- Cutting zombies to pieces, and cutting your friends to pieces when you slip. 2. There are more zombies than you have bullets. Get creative. 3. If you use fire, make sure it's not near things that you don't want burning. 4. Long hair is nothing more than a handle for the zombies to use while they eat you. 5. Hiding only works for so long. If there is a way for you to get out, there's a way for them to get in. 6. If you don't know how zombies are created, and someone was bitten by one, lock them to something for a few days, if not weeks. 7. One shot, one kill. Anything more and you're wasting ammo. 8. Find out how to kill them as soon as possible. 9. If you haven't been somewhere, assume they have. 10. Shotguns work at close ranges. Don't get close enough for shotguns to be effective. 11. Always have a way out. 12. Have a plan B, C, D, and E. occasionally F. 13. Don't make enemies of the other survivors. If you do, they might not be as inclined to help when the zombies break through your defenses. 14. Heroes are for movies. 15. Eat perishable food first. Save the canned stuff for when you don't have any other choice. 16. Get as much clean water as you can, as fast as you can. 17. Force=Mass x Acceleration. Enough zombies will generate the force needed to break your barrier. You can delay it, not stop it. 18. Find a way to reduce the number of rows of bodys they can have pushing on a wall. That will slow down their attempts to tear it down. 19. Don't assume anywhere is safe unless you can see 100% of it. Even then, watch your ass. 20. Use the skills people have. Don't have an engineer run guard duty or a jock do all the planning. 21. Don't forget to look up. 22. If you only see one zombie, assume there are 10 just out of sight. 23. Dogs can make a good early warning system. They also make a lot of noise that attracts zombies. 24. Never get smashed. The moment you get too drunk to fight is the moment you'll need to. 25. There should always be two or more people watching any way in or out of your temporary fortress. 26. It will be a temporary fortress. 27. If you can go there, assume zombies can as well, even if you've seen otherwise. 28. If bites infect people, they are dead once they are bitten. They now can become rambo and go out in a blaze of glory, hopefully being torn apart enough to not rise again. 29. Find a renewable source of food/water as soon as you can. 30. Don't capture zombies. That will come back to haunt you. 31. If you run out of food, find a new source before starvation sets in. 32. Don't get cocky. 33. Try to get 8 hours of sleep a day. If that means that you have to sleep in shifts, do it. 34. Take in as many survivors as you can support. No more. 35. Decapitation, even if it doesn't re-kill the zombie, will make it much harder for it to bite you. 36. Stay the hell away from hospitals. 37. Stay away from major cities. 38. There's always a reason for a riot. If one isn't known, get ready to hide or run. 39. If the zombies aren't in your city yet, they will be soon enough. Start preparing as soon as you know they exist. 40. Fully containable means that they think they can contain it. They can't. 41. Burn the bodies. Ash smells better than rotting flesh, and isn't as likely to make you sick. 42. Use Murphys Law when deciding how bad things are. If they infection is on the east coast, and you are on the west, someone that's infected is on a plane heading west. 43. Always have someone watching your back. 44. Isolated areas should have smaller zombie populations. If you can get to one, do so. 45. If you have to touch a zombie, wear gloves. 46. If you see a midget riding an extra large retard, don't follow him to Barter Town. 47. If someone has to be used as a distraction, use the fast person. They'll be most likely to survive. 48. Silence is golden, especially if there are hundreds of zombies in the neighborhood looking for a snack. 49. Lights out. Shinys attract unwanted attention. 50. Define what a zombie is, then try to wipe it from the planet.
# 50. Zombies are inordinately fond of the English band Queen. # 51. Zombies hate cheapskates. God help you if you're in a cemetary driving a Pontiac Tempest because you cheaped out and didn't pony up for the GTO.
Here's a tip. You're the hunted, so learn to live on the move and keep your damn eyes and ears open and for the love of God, your mouth shut. Get out to the country, and leave the city for the damned.
"it's where I used to live, it's where I'm gonna live, and not Matthias or any other son of a bitch is gonna make me move".
