Re: ZOMBIE SURVIVAL TEAM NEEDED
DWG3 wrote:
Wraith-Lord-666 wrote:
Jox =3 wrote:
Did you ever read the Zombie Survival Guide? Is BLOODY USEFUL for those things. I will get some music
yes i did read that book its strange because you kind of start to belive it
its true my friend has it and now when ever i think zombies i base all my knowledge off of it lol
The Zombie Survival Guide is a fun read, but contradicts itself and is
flawed. For starters, Max Brooks tries to convince readers that sitting back and plugging away for accurate headshots is the way to go. Not a bad idea, totally feasible. However, he THEN proceeds to elevate the AK47 as the best example of an assault rifle ever made, even though its notoriously bad aim would negate his prior overall strategy. To add insult to injury, he disses the M16 and its myriad of variants like a total ♥♥♥♥ as if he knew what he was talking about, calling them the worst example of an assault rifle ever made. He focuses on the M16's non-reliability
way too much. True, it was known for its sensitivity to dirt and mud-
in 1967. Even by the end of the Vietnam war, most of the issues with the M16 had been fixed. Today, with such advanced variants as the SOPMOD available to US troops, the M16 is the most tried-and-true weapon in the known world. Troops swear by its MATCH-GRADE (
Olympic match, mind you) accuracy and combat-tested reliability. Every counter-terrorist organization in the world maintains at least 1 variant of the M16 for easy use. (It's not hard to find pics of SAS operative in Iraq, with their eyes covered up to hide their identity, cradling scoped M16A2s. GIGN has several photos of rappelling teams clambering into buildings holding the weapons.) Brooks also claims that M16s were only used due to political implications. Again, totally wrong. The US military was searching for a modern rifle after Korea. Eugene Stoner, an employee of the ArmaLite Corporation at the time, exemplified American ingenuity when he INVENTED the M16. The M16 was created by an individual, far from the clutches of political red tape, and the M16 was chosen over other weapons for its performance, nothing more. The M16 has had the longest lifetime of ANY service rifle ever used by the US Army, and for good reason.
Max Brooks is uninformed and assumes too much, relying on his flawed knowledge of military information. I laughed at his "Historical" section in TZSG because there was glaring inaccuracies. He states that in the year 700, fully-platemailed knights were fighting zombies. Platemail wasn't invented 'till the 1300s.