Sorrest
Oh yeah, please tell me you’re not going to completely move to melee or old fashioned weapons for the rest of the novel. I don’t particularly hate them but it’s dumb to be too conservative like in the show. America has enough bullets to kill the population several times over even if you you say half of them are shit in 5-10 years people are still using decades old ammo from like ww2 and the Cold War today. Look at Russia for example, they treat their ammo like shit and while it does blow up in their faces a 1/4 of the time it’s still working. You just need to break into 1-2 good ammo stocks and you have hundreds if not thousands of rounds that if taken care of and used appropriately could last you for at least a few years. It seriously pissed me off that bullets are considered such a rarity in the show when you could break into like 10 houses and come out with at least a few boxes. I get it’s to build tension or whatever but it’s dumb and majorly unrealistic
Honestly you could clear the whole American continents; north and south if you found enough survivors. It’s a miracle the virus even spread as fast as it did. If the American government was more decisive it could have stopped the spread so easily. You know Iraq? We drove over that shit in a week. Man we practically steam rolled the whole Middle East in a combined month. I won’t play pedantics about Vietnam but if you actually look at the kill ratio it is so lopsided. We lost less than 200k and they lost millions.