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Permalink Reply by Deli of the Dead on June 4, 2008 at 4:06pm

Not a bad synopsis, but dont forget that it has to be used at a pretty short range potentially allowing the victim grab your arm and move in for that fatal bite.

Permalink Reply by Melisande on June 4, 2008 at 6:50pm

The problem with fire is that before it consumes them, they shamble around on fire for a bit -- potentially setting you/your friends/your safehouse on fire, too.

Permalink Reply by EmoZombieKiller on June 17, 2008 at 8:29am

flamethrower? so instead of a zombie trying to eat you....you'll have a zombie trying to eat you thats on fire!!!!

Permalink Reply by survivor927 on September 2, 2008 at 1:46pm

Well, the thing is, unless you drill a hole through their skull and set the brain itself on fire instead of just the whole body, incendiaries can take a while to kill a ghoul. After all, flesh can take a while to burn.

Permalink Reply by The Bruin on September 6, 2008 at 8:32pm

This is not untrue. It should be noted however that it depends strictly on the nature of the outbreak. Should the dead rise as some type of "Supernatural, the elder gods are out to get us" scenario, then I think the napalm route will take longer because the body is being reanimated by means that do not necessarily rely on the conductiveness of organic tissue. On the other hand, if it's some type of viral outbreak (a plague, bacteria, etc.) then it will rely on organic tissue to work and as the nerve endings begin to burn away it will become more difficult for the brain to send the impulses that induce movement...At least, thats my theory anyway.

Permalink Reply by Steven on September 15, 2008 at 11:01pm

Actually Mango, a zombie could easily survive a blast to the head from a flamethrower. Flamethrowers don't burn their victims to death. Most people who have died via flamethrower died through suffication, either because the flamethrower ate all the oxygen around them, or because the fire licked the inside of their lungs causing the tissue inside the lungs to bleed plasma causing the victim to drown on their own fluids. These problems are not shared by zombies. Unless you actually capture a zombie and blast his head for a prolonged period, it would remain unharmed, and if you actually could do this, a bullet would be much easier. Also, the flamethrower itself is quite heavy, and the amount of killing potential against zombies with it are quite low per indevidual tank of fuel that the flamethrower uses.

Aside from a freakin' awsome show, all a flamethrower would really do is give the zombie a great melee advantage in that they would be on fire.

Permalink Reply by E on September 16, 2008 at 6:19am

Which is why they are awesome for base defense/vehicle mounts.
You are safe(if you built your wall correctly), you can have your show, and you can watch all the burning zombies wander around until you get bored.

Permalink Reply by Steven on September 17, 2008 at 12:45am

The only real way a flamethrower could help you is to burn the zombies you have already rekilled, so that they do not pile over themselves and get over your wall. You would have to make sure though that you wall is not made of thin metal or flammable material though else the fire could harm it. Only of you had a concrete or some other flame retarded wall would a flamethrower help you, however the materials that the flamethrower burns would be more helpful for heating and water purification purposes instead of body disposal, as any time where you actually needed to burn the zombies to keep them from making organic hills, the fire wouldn't burn them fast enough and your fort would be filled with flaming flesh eating zombies.

Permalink Reply by E on September 17, 2008 at 7:01pm

Got diesel fuel and paraffin wax.

Not military stuff.

Fort (for lack of a better term) is concrete and rebar. And always burn bodies. Never let them stay around and cause disease.

Permalink Reply by Steven on September 18, 2008 at 1:11am

The zombies couldn't cause disease. Anytime the zombie virus comes in contact with any living thing, it kills it. Essentailly, once you kill a zombie, after the virus had died, the zombie is no more likely to cuase disease than a piece of wood. If you really needed to burn the bodies though, just wait for them to dry out and burn them like firewood. (not for a cooking fire, you don't want your food to be dead guy smoked, mmmmmmmmmmmm, dead guy)

Permalink Reply by The Bruin on September 18, 2008 at 9:32am

I must respectfully disagree. Rotting bodies of any type breed bacteria and nastiness that can be transferred by flies and other pests.

Permalink Reply by E on September 18, 2008 at 4:31pm

Dead bodies always cause disease unless they are:
buried
burnt
destroyed
covered in powdered lime

Any other thing just seals it for a short time.

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