User:Winman1/The seasoned stratagist

This is a guide on strategy to fight zombies , with a few tactics.

The simple principles

1. Win All Without Fighting (not literally of course, since combat is what this game is built around)

2. Avoid Strength, Attack Weakness

3. Deception and Foreknowledge

4. Speed and Preparation

5. Shaping the Enemy

6. Character-Based Leadership

Knowing the "zombie"

Despite many player's thoughts, zombies are actually the dominating faction. Zombies need not worry of searching for items, or finding a safe house, or finding weapons.

Zombies don't care no matter how many times you kill them. Head shots can delay their attack for a brief time, but even then, good zombies can stand for 6AP. A few players advocate combat reviving to use against zombies, hoping they will decide to play survivor for an extended period of time. Combat reviving is based around that core idea which rarely works. In fact, a combat reviver is wasting precious AP both for searching and using a rev. syr. Zombies just go and just out of a building or let other zombies rekill it for quick xp.

Any intelligent zombie joins a group, which protects them, increases their killing ability, and allows faster xp gain. This grouping can be used against them. Look at the danger map, once an area starts turning yellow its soon going to go orange or even red shortly. Right now the horde seems to be moving southwest, so any south westerners should prepare. Monitoring major zombie group's pages and forums care vital to predict zombie movements.

Zombies mainly acquire xp from murdering lone survivors stranded on the street, constantly attacking barricades, or killing survivors after other zombies constantly attack barricades.