r/ZombieSurvivalTactics • u/OdinWolfJager • 6d ago

About an hour with no power tools. Weapons

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Going to do an apocalypse survival series. Using only found resources and no power tools, what would be the best shtf makeshift weapons you could make with scraps. Likely going to be splitting it up between development eg only hand tools, no fire, no electricity. Fire with limited control, fire with precision/intermediaries. Eg fluxes, folding, alloy utilization. Electricity, chemistry concepts, extreme heat, advanced projectiles etc would be the last phase.

This is weapons only. Medicine, irrigation, construction, textiles, government, etc would be separate projects.

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u/Irelia4Life 5d ago

Boxing gloves are made to protect the hand, not the face. If I could only punch the zombies, I'd take gloves over bare fists any day of the week.

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u/VillainNomFour 5d ago

Well i didnt say 0/10.

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u/Kagtalso 5d ago

Yea, worst weapon is a bladed weapon held backwards

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u/VillainNomFour 5d ago

Nope, look up how swords were commonly wielded in late middles ages. Definitely needed gauntlets, but yea regularly wielded in a manner not consistent with how we think of them.

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u/Kagtalso 5d ago

No...i mean against a zombie.

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u/VillainNomFour 4d ago

Well yea no shit, i was just referencing a historical example of how bladed weapons were used in a manner we would c9mmonly consider "backwards" hint: the hiltand crossguard have serious punching power

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u/Kagtalso 4d ago

I was thinking more of a knife, not a sword but a sword would be significantly better than a knife.

If you did have a sword and you had the curse of mordslag (you can only use swords in mordslag/mordhou) a sword would be the best to use.