# Using zombies to your advantage?!?

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/using-zombies-to-your-advantage/14213>\
**Category:** The Bunker\
**Created:** [September 9, 2017, 4:55pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/using-zombies-to-your-advantage/14213 "2017-09-09T16:55:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![hdggDalton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f475e1/32.png) [@hdggDalton](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/hdggDalton)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2017, 4:55pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/using-zombies-to-your-advantage/14213/1 "2017-09-09T16:55:15Z")

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I’ve exploited their idiocy many times before to kill them, but exploiting them to help me?!? Pfft, ridiculous! Nevertheless, I have found some ways to exploit zombies for your benefit;

1. They break cars for me, giving me free scrap metal when I would otherwise have to lug around a huge sledgehammer or remove the parts which takes hours!
2. They fight other enemies (I’m looking at you moose) although sometimes the zombies are defeated. Win/win, as long as you remember to pulp them after the bait is killed.
3. Sometimes they step on traps that I would have otherwise stepped on.
4. I use them for training weapon skills. I kite them towards a secluded area, let them rise, kill them, let them rise, kill them, etc. At least until my weapon skills are powerful enough to pulp them in combat.

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**Author:** ![Walegrin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/walegrin/32/1392_2.png) [@Walegrin](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Walegrin)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2017, 5:18pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/using-zombies-to-your-advantage/14213/2 "2017-09-09T17:18:04Z")

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I suppose you could use a group of zombies to clear a minefield…

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**Author:** ![SpadeDraco](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/spadedraco/32/564_2.png) [@SpadeDraco](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/SpadeDraco)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2017, 9:37pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/using-zombies-to-your-advantage/14213/3 "2017-09-09T21:37:46Z")

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Hypothetically you could make a functional zombie army for yourself. Make a bunch of fast moving Zombie Slaves to act as a buffer between you and the actual hostile zombies, and then lead them to whatever you want killed.

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**Author:** ![Theundyingcode](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/theundyingcode/32/500_2.png) [@Theundyingcode](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Theundyingcode)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2017, 10:45pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/using-zombies-to-your-advantage/14213/4 "2017-09-09T22:45:42Z")

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My default strategy for getting rid of giant wasps, mi-goos and other things I don’t want to fight is to run through the middle of a hoard. (my favorite profession is skater girl so they can’t catch up right away and I can weave through the Zs with only a couple attacks sent my way) I do the reverse with zombies too, I lead them into a pack of coyotes or an NPC.

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**Author:** ![RedPine](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/redpine/32/4995_2.png) [@RedPine](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/RedPine)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2017, 7:10pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/using-zombies-to-your-advantage/14213/5 "2017-09-13T19:10:04Z")

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> [@Theundyingcode](#):
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> My default strategy for getting rid of giant wasps, mi-goos and other things I don’t want to fight is to run through the middle of a hoard. (my favorite profession is skater girl so they can’t catch up right away and I can weave through the Zs with only a couple attacks sent my way) I do the reverse with zombies too, I lead them into a pack of coyotes or an NPC.

I once met an NPC who wanted me to drop my weapon. I was on a bike, he was in the middle of a hoard. Bye bye.