This is a good thread and @roelkonijn.bsky.social is absolutely right about the potential importance here of projecting towers to offer lines of fire that cover the base of the wall, particularly against this kind of threat.
But there's *even more* missing in this defense! 1/
But there's *even more* missing in this defense! 1/
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People pinged me a few weeks ago to ask my opinion on the defences of Jackson Hole in The Last of Us S2E2. But they already know what I think. This town is an island in a hostile world but somehow it is ringed only by a single flimsy palisade! If you get turned into fungus here, that's on you
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Oh, you'll see a little bit of wire on the tops of walls or whatever, but that's now how wire is employed.
This is how: 2/
https://acoup.blog/2021/09/17/collections-no-mans-land-part-i-the-trench-stalemate/
For a zombie hoard that basically has to just stack bodies over the wire to pass, they'll be there for a long while.
6/
anyway, it has a bunch in book 1 about trying to push through modern defences with mass. you get shelled and mined and cut to ribbons. it is brutal, and deadly
The great new trick is deploying wire with unmanned ground vehicles.
They can't breach the obstacle other than by sheer numbers but those caught, stay.
In terms of stopping really big creatures, it depends on 'how big' and 'how strong.' Thick barbed wire can stop horses and cows, so if the posts are deep enough, I'd bet that your L4D tank would get stopped.
Not sure if any fictional mega-zombie hits those limits or not.
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https://bsky.app/profile/specialkhersoncat.bsky.social/post/3lp2r4f3kns2m
Forget even using the main gun, an M-1 has 12,000 rounds of coax ammo in its ready box and can easily carry multiple reloads. /1
But the second battle would be a massively different story.
https://bsky.app/profile/policyg.bsky.social/post/3lp3fkxiuk22t
I think they can handle a dense crowd.
And 155mm would just wreck them and is cheap as well. Troops in the open is the ultimate ideal target for artillery.
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There was a complete lack of understanding about how military radio nets work (no one would ever have every unit in a division on the same net), and so much more.
That's a job for fire and monitoring.
I have two young sons, age 11 and 13, so there's frequent zombie talk. I always tell them any ditch and palisade enclosure plus arming yourself with a long spear to go head-poking from the top of the wall is going to defeat any imaginable zombie mass attack. Easily.
Problem solved.
Just have someone making sounds and smells off the precipice of a canyon. They all fall in and get smashed to suet at the bottom.