Editing Carrier Group:Zombies (section)

===Zombie Fighting 101===

Headshots are naturally the most efficient way to put down zombies. Crippling the limbs can also make them less of a threat. Zombies may just about ignore tissue damage, but even they cannot keep walking with broken legs.

There is a reason why guns may not always be the optimal choice against zombies. Zombies do not see quite as well as they did when alive, but they react to noises. And gunfire can carry quite a distance. Shooting zombies may not be a problem if you are in an isolated location or have a silenced firearm, but otherwise gunning down a few zombies will cause every other zombie within hearing distance to begin shambling over to see what is for dinner. This may not be a problem either if you are just planning to get in, grab something and get out, but otherwise it can create a no win situation where new zombies keep appearing just as soon as you gun down the previous ones.

Therefore, melee weapons are not just back up weapons in case the ammo runs out. Sure, you risk getting bitten if you enter into melee, but most zombies are slow and lack genuine fighting skill. So if there is not an overwhelming number of them, a fit and skilled person can whack down a number of zombies without causing loud noise that would draw in more. This is also why bows and crossbows are coming back in fashion. They are silent, and as an added bonus, it may be possible to recover used ammunition