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Miniatures Adventure => Post-Apocalyptic Tales => Topic started by: abhorsen950 on December 27, 2010, 05:54:02 PM
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Well its happened, a nuclear war, your countries a wasteland. What would you do?
I'm just interested to hear what you guys would do, since a lot of people here are gaming this genre, maybe you've thought about what you'd do when you are bored, I do this often.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Steve
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Well its happened, a nuclear war, your countries a wasteland. What would you do?
Probably start pre-apocalyptic gaming...
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Wander around in a dazed and confused state, poke some corpses with a stick, attempt, perhaps, to open a can of baked beans, and then die of exposure.
Considering the number of nuclear weapons in the world, and the fact that we really have no idea of how powerful they are (very, I expect), do you really think that there will be either anyone left, or anything left to live off?
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I'm pretty sure I'd disappear in a brief but intense flash of flame.
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'Wolveriiiiiiiiiiines....!!!!!'
I suppose I'd get ready to go all Road Warrior...
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When my wife and I saw this at the library we HAD to get it to see if it was for real or not.
(http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/imageviewer.asp?ean=9780061998256&imId=69649567)
While it is a little tongue and cheek, (the "author" is a UFC fighter) it is meant to be a serious guide to the apocalypse.
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When my wife and I saw this at the library we HAD to get it to see if it was for real or not.
(http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/imageviewer.asp?ean=9780061998256&imId=69649567)
While it is a little tongue and cheek, (the "author" is a UFC fighter) it is meant to be a serious guide to the apocalypse.
What is it? I'm not seeing a link.
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When my wife and I saw this at the library we HAD to get it to see if it was for real or not.
(http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/imageviewer.asp?ean=9780061998256&imId=69649567)
While it is a little tongue and cheek, (the "author" is a UFC fighter) it is meant to be a serious guide to the apocalypse.
Image not showing up, common problem these days on LAF. Let me try.
(http://www.mmamadhouse.com/images/2010/07/Get-Ready-When-the-Shit-Goes-Down.jpg)
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Rally my neighboring survivors and with my skills gained through roleplaying and wargaming, begin my own apocalyptic tribe, conquering other local tribes and eventually installing myself as high chieftain and the "Ayattolla of Rock 'n Rolla". >:D
But first I'd have to find some water, considering I have NO survival skills whatsoever... :'(
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Try to move away from home to some area that isn't a polluted wasteland.
Apart from that it would depend on the level of death and destruction around us. If there was some kind of social organization left, I'd give it a try - it's usually better than trying to survive on your own.
Maybe I'll become a superhero from exposure...
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Well I'd just continue like normal I'd expect, as in live in NZ nobody cares about us lol lol
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I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. We'd be obliterated so quickly that we wouldn't even know what hit us.
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Considering my area is a prime target, providing electricity to half of NY state, it may be over quickly.
If not, the high levels of chemical pollution and radiation in the area should provide me with the necessary mutations and resistances to set myself up as the Over-Dog.
:)
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I guess it'll help me lose some wieght!
1. Secure a weapon.
Not easy in the UK, so at best i guess it'll be some sort of knife or axe, i'l work my way up to a bow or shotgun.
2. Secure resources.
Water, food and shelter. This will be made easier having achieved 1. Previous morals are out of the window here so violence will have to be used to ensure success. Probably not down to cannibalism at this stage. Key targets will be shopping malls, abandoned government/military underground bunkers, etc.
3. Secure a gang of followers.
I'm keen to try and retain something of the 'old life' so a band of raiders or road warriors won't be for me. instead a gang of 'rebuilders' looking to make a decent life in the wastes.
4. Secure knowledge.
Get people who know how to do things to join. Mechanics, farmers, doctors, teachers...all useful.
5. Rebuild society.
I'll be Uncle Entity. Of course this will have to involve repopulating the species so it should be a bit of fun there - ignoring the rad-rotted flesh, and general genetic damage.
:D
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Have any of you ever watched The Colony, on the Discovery Channel? Did anyone broadcast this show in Europe? I thought they did a fair job of representing a 'sanitized' version of how it could possibly go down. They gathered the people referenced in number 4, to make number 3, and threw them together as in number 2, without the cannibalism.
Here (an hour east of Dallas), in all seriousness, my immediate family and some close friends have a contingency plan for several different scenarios (I'm former military). The general concensus with people I game with - and some co-workers - is that we'd be more likely to get a dirty bomb here than anything else. In any case, post-apocalyptic priorities are water, shelter, food (weaponry is covered), and finding like-minded survivors for strength in numbers, and common goals. Here, it would be a resurgence of the Old West, with technological advances.
2. Secure resources.
Water, food and shelter. This will be made easier having achieved 1. Previous morals are out of the window here so violence will have to be used to ensure success. Probably not down to cannibalism at this stage. Key targets will be shopping malls, abandoned government/military underground bunkers, etc.
3. Secure a gang of followers.
I'm keen to try and retain something of the 'old life' so a band of raiders or road warriors won't be for me. instead a gang of 'rebuilders' looking to make a decent life in the wastes.
4. Secure knowledge.
Get people who know how to do things to join. Mechanics, farmers, doctors, teachers...all useful.
5. Rebuild society.
I'll be Uncle Entity. Of course this will have to involve repopulating the species so it should be a bit of fun there - ignoring the rad-rotted flesh, and general genetic damage.
:D
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I'm pretty sure none of the nuke-armed nations even know this country exists, so it should be safe. :D
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I live in Vegas so I am safe for ever thing but fall out and the hordes trying to flee from LA once the bombs hit ;D.
But really in any disaster, I already got the guns covered(and so dose ever one else on the block)
So getting water, and food would be the main problem, I mean its literally a desert out there.
Maby head to Utah, and then to my buddies ranch up in the dakotas
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Dakotas are some of the last places to head, as we still have a slew of missile silos operating out of there. Me, being Portland, Oregon, I would be toast from fallout from north of me being pushed down by normal weather patterns. If I didn't die from radiation, though, I'd survive. Wasn't raised by midwestern farmers for nothing - got the guns, know how to plant and harvest crops, could live off berries and wild game if there was any.
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Australia is already there. We have the worst cricket captain on earth, a team with no direction and we're being belted by a triumphant English team in the Ashes.
Believe me, it doesn't get worse. Cormac McCarthy knows nothing about existential despair.
And congratulations to England - a better team playing well is a wonderful thing to watch - through the weeping and gnashing and hurling of dogs at the TV.
In context for our American cousins, imagine Canada crushing you senseless at any given national sport you both play.
Or for European football fans, the realisation that Brasil has rediscovered its mojo and just wants to jump up and down on your head for a decade or so.
Meh. It's a game with a bat and ball. I'm still going to the Sydney Test. Masochism is its own reward.
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Dakotas are some of the last places to head, as we still have a slew of missile silos operating out of there. Me, being Portland, Oregon, I would be toast from fallout from north of me being pushed down by normal weather patterns. If I didn't die from radiation, though, I'd survive. Wasn't raised by midwestern farmers for nothing - got the guns, know how to plant and harvest crops, could live off berries and wild game if there was any.
Palms head duh, I had forgot about the old missile bases out there, of my of my old Gfs from High school is currently working as one of the button pushers lol.
Ok then I will just pack up my guns, food and water and move into the huge drainage tunnels undernet the city (you can drive Semis in these things) and wait out the blast and fallout, then emerge and head to were ever there is still furtal land with clean water and pray that some were my skills as an ex-paratrooper and amateur historian can come in handy lol
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Well older cars would still work, the ones without the elcetronic imobilsers (thinking EMP), drive to the police station and raid the armed responce department, or the local TA supply center, then off to secure food from the numerous supermarkets and conveince stores etc.
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Well its happened, a nuclear war, your countries a wasteland. What would you do?
Finally have time to get around to finishing my projects, esp, the zombie hoardes... then start looting games shops. lol
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When my wife and I saw this at the library we HAD to get it to see if it was for real or not.
While it is a little tongue and cheek, (the "author" is a UFC fighter) it is meant to be a serious guide to the apocalypse.
Yeaup, I found this in the local Chapters last month. It's an awesome read.
This is the Great White North, nuking it is just a waste of resources. Besides, it's mostly rural over here anyway and a lot of us are self-sustaining anyhoo.
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In context for our American cousins, imagine Canada crushing you senseless at any given national sport you both play.
It happens all the time. Ask the Yanks when they last won an Olympic ice hockey gold medal, and who beat them. :D
Regarding the cheerful post-apoc thing, we're upwind of most of North America here, but if things go utterly pear-shaped Canada's only Pacific Coast naval base is in town, so that might warrent a little surprise of it's own. In which case, good to know you.
After that, we're on an island. 90+% of our food comes from off the island. We have issues. (more realistically, this is also an issue when (not if) the Really Big Earthquake jumps up and down on this part of the world. Geologists have been promising the Really Big Earthquake "real soon now", but geologists have a rather non-standard definition of "real soon now")
If the big faults let go, we might find outselves treading water - until the tsunami wave comes back in....
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Hey Wirelizard since you brought up things that are going to destroy the west coast don't forget Mt. Hood for some localized WA and BC action, and when the yellowstone caldera blows were all screwed lol
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Guess it depends on who's firing the nukes, for Birmingham U.K, I know there is a nuke out there in Russia made specially for us, I doubt the same goes for China though or any other 'hostile' nuke loving countries.
If Birmingham were hit well, I'd be dead, and if we weren't but London was, be straight to the Welsh valleys with me!
But I'd probably die a slow and agonising death when the tea runs out.
Only weapons I have are loads of sharp objects, a bow and a .177 Air rifle. And my dog wouldn't hurt a fly, in fact he is scared of flies, so he won't be much use when we find out Super mutants aren't as fictional as we believed!
Trick is to find a spot where the wind that passes through the Nuked zone doesn't happen to come lumbering over to where your hiding, radiation travels a long way.
Then there is the Nuclear winter.
Chances of survival in a radiated zone are close to nil as well.
In fact to be horribly truthful, as far as my attention allowed me to concentrate on the nuclear warfare lecture back at Uni (I do War studies) those of us who survived would more than likely be dead within a decade!
And those who survived would have to put up with some of the most nightmarish environment for hundreds of years!
Better start building that vault Ladies and Gents!
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In context for our American cousins, imagine Canada crushing you senseless at any given national sport you both play.
Like Ice Hockey? lol
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Start a post apocalyptic gang! We'll be a bunch of 40 year olds who ride in on BMX bikes with crossbows.
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Assuming We'd live long enough, rebuild the windmills and start pumping out the water that no doubt covers the land now that the mayor infrastructure is gone. Good thing our town has a disproportionate number of people trained in blacksmithing and other crafts, we'd probably manage OK on our own for a while.
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Scream while my skin melt away. Or if I'm lucky, try to
repopulate gather survivors and repopulate establish a base to repopulate create a new society. And if everything is going well then repopulate. ;D
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Start a post apocalyptic gang! We'll be a bunch of 40 year olds who ride in on BMX bikes with crossbows.
Since the original questioner raised the point 5 years ago, and I'm fairly sure has long since moved on, your suggestion may fall on deaf ears.
But that may well be a record-breaking piece of threadomancy!
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But that may well be a record-breaking piece of threadomancy!
I'd suggest some sort of ribbon, but the arms race that might encourage would not be a pretty one.
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Assuming i survived, i'd head straight to swithland woods quarry.There's a dive center built into the solid slate and its a deep old quarry in the middle of a dense forest. The stone should keep me pretty shielded, and hopefully the water will be covered enough by the forest canopy (provided it isnt on fire) to keep it just safe enough to not kill me straight away.
If the actual local area was hit then i'd be dead from radioactive beans pretty soon, but if Leicester wasn't directly hit but reasonably damaged, i'd stick to the country side for foraging and hunting.
(or realistically, die horribly)
(or shoot myself with a bow because i can't face a world without tea)
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I'd strut about with my new rack of antlers proudly sprouted from my head, firing radiation from my eyes (all three of them) while reloading my fusion gun astride my hoverbike while my robo-servitors swarmed your position.
yeah, I play Gamma World.... lol
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Australia is already there. We have the worst cricket captain on earth, a team with no direction and we're being belted by a triumphant English team in the Ashes.
Believe me, it doesn't get worse. Cormac McCarthy knows nothing about existential despair.
And congratulations to England - a better team playing well is a wonderful thing to watch - through the weeping and gnashing and hurling of dogs at the TV.
In context for our American cousins, imagine Canada crushing you senseless at any given national sport you both play.
Or for European football fans, the realisation that Brasil has rediscovered its mojo and just wants to jump up and down on your head for a decade or so.
Meh. It's a game with a bat and ball. I'm still going to the Sydney Test. Masochism is its own reward.
Five years later and the despair remains... :'(
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I can't believe I'm the first one to say this:
Become a cannibal on the spot, of course!
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I don't think I will need to be much concerned about the aftermath. I am practically just outside the gates of one of the largest & most active military bases in North America. Probably a ground zero first strike target. :(
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I can't believe I'm the first one to say this:
Become a cannibal on the spot, of course!
Good plan. It's like being trapped in the snow, if you don't get rescued in the first fifteen minutes you should get in first.