Really guys? I can deal with hordes if I have a survivor’s machete, a decent wooden weapon (baseball preferably, but quarterstaff until I can find one), okay armor (a good hard hat at least and leather armor if I can craft it.) and some painkillers.
And now at times, various wildlife will now intervene too and take out several zombies without me having to get involved if I don’t want too. The Fungaloid’s that spawned near me are a blessing now since tough zombies can sometimes be converted into fungal zombies which are total pushovers.
The trick really is to get the horde to break off into little chunks if you can. I butcher all of them now if I have a knife on me to stop them from getting back up for good, and to raise my survival skill constantly. Hazmat zombies often add to my collection of plastic, which is nice if I lack space for water.
Hordes tend to be a really useful for dropping all kinds of tools (I think even a stethoscope once), tons of clothing (that can be reduced to rags, leather patches, plastic, Kevlar, Nomex, and the like), tainted bones (which after a while is good for superglue and charcoal if I’m feeling morbid), tainted fat (which can be rendered down into tainted tallow, and then lamp oil. 8 fats = 400 lamp oil, which I can use to cook things now), bionics (provided I can isolate the shocker zombie/brute), occasionally books that I can’t find elsewhere (like “The Art of Glassblowing”), I think there’s more… They seem to drop just about anything really if you kill enough of them. Not sure that I’d trust the antibiotics from them though.
