So we have all replied or at least skimmed over the "Would Your Hometown Survive" thread, but now its time to see how you would survive the nuclear Armageddon. http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1302989-would-your-hometown-survive/ For reference.

So lets assume that either your hometown has survived, or at least you have bugged out, how do you plan on surviving?

Cannibalism.

Of course I'd survive! I've played all the Fallout games and they're just like the real thing. Now I just need to play COD so I can learn how to shoot properly.

I doubt I would. I do have some advantages over the average person around where I live, for one I have guns and second I have spent time in the outdoors but by no means am I a survivalist type person.

thats hilarious, anyway i live in a pretty crappy neighborhood and i KNOW im equally equipped, better trained and more intelligent then my automatic weapon weilding,drug dealing, ape neighbors. and my chevy pickup will survive anything

Lets just say i have already started to imagine a nuclear war and thought about tactics and places i should go (LOL there wont really be a nuclear war will there? WRONG)
I love fallout so much it is starting to effect my real life way of thinking. As for if i would survive, if i would survive the nuclear holocaust, nuclear rain and radiation, then i guess i would, as i try to conserve everything i have nicely, and always take a peaceful route, unless that option is impossible. There are 3 stores that sell food nearby, and i know alot of people around here that might be willing to join me in my real, fallout kind adventure for survival LOL.
But no i dont think i would even survive the first seconds, but i hope i would be lucky.

No. From what I've seen in Fallout, I wouldn't want to survive whether or not I could, I just wouldn't want to.

I would die! I live in a rural area, on a farm, but I'm not a farmer. I grew up in Stockholm, moved to this farm, our family's vaccation place, when I was 13. I'm not really used to... tending crops or anything like that. Oh, and this is Sweden and since we're not a hunting family... we do not own any guns, never had. It's just my dad who has experience from when he did basic training 30 years ago, and he didn't fire guns too much then he has told me.

So unless our little community, our little... "village" of ~600 people, survive and work together then sure, we'll manage. Many people here are still farmers, although some are quitting and many who lives here now are normal people who moved out here for the peace and quiet but commutes to nearby towns and cities for average joe jobs. And they don't have guns either. I know of a bunch who are hunters though, so they are experienced with that and we'll at least have a few dozen scoped bolt-actions at least.

I don't really see what we, my family, could contribute with. We could surely help the others who has these handy knowledges for survival like farming and hunting, but we don't so... my dad likes to tinker, and my mom likes to tend her garden. And I like daydream, will surely come in handy! But yeah, we're able bodied people at least. We could be taught things, and since we are pretty far away from any big cities and live in a rather neutral country... I don't think hundreds of nukes would be aimed at us, we'd be hit by fallout and nuclear winter though... but we're swedes, we can handle cold.

Guess I have a slight chance, after all?

Probably. Me and some friends would head to the mountains, call ourselves the Wolverines, and that'd be that. But instead of being a ragtag group of nobodies, we'd be well trained Marines/Navy SEALS (well actually three would just be SEALS, the rest of us would be Marines). We'd be the full package of everything post-nuclear combat would learn from. Small squad tactics, and of course stealthy tactics for when you need to get in and out without much trouble. Plus we're all relatively smart and adaptable, so we could probably get what we needed food wise.

I manage a personal garden every year, I've killed at least a dozen and a half types alone of various animals, I own many different types of guns, I know a bit about food preservation, I can fish, camp, cook, I live in a rural area, farms and woods are nearby, I know a little about wild edibles, I'm near to water and know where nearby wells are at,
and I can tell you the answer right now...
possibly.

No matter what it wouldn't be some great existence, having to bust *** to grow/catch and gather your own food and then not freeze in the winters, either.
I very much like electricity, supermarkets, hospitals and onhand refrigerated sandwich goodies. The idea of not having those doesn't sound enjoyable.
Survive? Who knows, the idea isn't appealing.

No I'd die from the blast or radiation. And even if I didn't most of my family would die, which would destroy my desire to go on.

I probably not survive. I learned first aid, mountain climbing and how to use a compass form JROTC. Plus im 16, my small town has U.S military supply depot and we near a Stockton, Tracy, Manteca. Large Cities. My dad is a Mechanical Engineer and my mom works in a jewelry store. Sooooo i think i might survive possibly but if my family dies, then my desire to live would fade but who knows?

That's what would probably get me. I have absolutely no clue when it comes to medical training.

I can see my headstone now:


. Here Lies Victor

. Died of Syphilis

...,,,,,,,RIP


I mean it no clue.

I'm not the athletic type. I don't own a gun or know how to shoot. (beside line up sights and pull trigger) I don't own anything that would be valuable in the post apocalyptic wastelands. I also don't really have motivation to keep going like kids and stuff.

I'm pretty sure I would be killed, by nature or by raiders.

I'd guess I would scavenge for resources and bring them to an old water tunnel or electric station in a forest close to my home town.

Doing this would only work for awhile. Resources run out eventually and people would soon start to go about raving as cannibals.
So I would have to look to make myself sufficient in the forest. Water would be in constant supply, wood can be gathered and heated.
Mushrooms or herbs could be tested for edibility, insects or small rodents can be eaten and I'm sure I could make ragtag fox pelts for new clothes.

The only problem would be scaring the locals away so I can survive, not starve or be eaten. Weapons are not easy to make nor gather.

I would say my chances are very high. I've been in scouts when I was younger, so earned alot of first hand knowledge on the outdoors as well as animal and plant ID and tracking. I also have a good stash of supplies that would help me out in a post nuclear holocaust survival situation.

To break supplies down is as follows as vaugely as possible. Not going to list exact.

1x High powered rifle
2500x high powered rifle rounds - assorted

1x High powered pistol
500x high powered pistol rounds - assorted

2x low powered rifles
10000x low powered rifle rounds - assorted

1x High powered small caliber pistol
500x high powered small caliber pistol rounds

1x low - mid powered revolver
250x low-mid powered revolver rounds

1x surplus cold war Civil Defense geiger counter - New in Box

1x LBV - slightly used from my scouting days

Only thing is I am looking to expand my equipment collection more with the addition of two more rifles in the mid to high powered range.


I think I would have a fairly good chance at survival considering my stock piled supplies and my hands on experiance and training with my equipment.




Its more than just simply lining up the sights and pulling the trigger. If you are dealing with a high powered firearm for instance, you tend to shoot low and to the left if your right handed or low and to the right if your left handed. The reason for this is a few reasons, one of the big ones is your squeezing your trigger too hard and pulling the aim off. The other reason which is the most common is you antcipate the recoil and you compensate just as you pull the trigger by pushing the gun down which results in low POA and low POI.

I have and still do have this problem with my high powered pistol but I am slowly improving. When I started out with this one out of 200 rounds shot only 130 were on the paper. The second trip to the range I fired off 200 rounds and had 195 or so on the paper and the grouping was alittle better. But to compensate for my antcipation of the recoil I started aiming up and to the right in the 1 - 2 o'clock position to compensate.

There are a few tricks to get yourself out of the habit of antcipating the recoil but I havent done it yet. One I plan to try is randomly loading a mag with live ammo and dead ammo. That way you dont know when it will go bang when you pull the trigger so it helps you relax some and not antcipate recoil.

To be honest guys, the radiated water and food supply (if any) would kill us faster than any raiders. Only way we would have a chance is if we were living in a bunker (vault) for a century or so. And only leave once the radiation wasn't so bad.

But there are tablets that lower how much radiation your body absorbs. In any case, radiation is a daily part of life, the heat you feel on your skin from the suns rays are radiation, given the ozone stops 99% of leathal radiation but it doesnt stop all of it. That is where skin cancer comes in to play when you are out in the sun too long.

How dangerous would mutated swans/ducks/geese be?
If the answer is "not much more than normal" then I'd live past those threats.
I'd die of stravation or radiation poisioning though, being realistic ofcourse I'd just buff myself with RadAway as I eat the irradiated Cakes from the ASDA shopping shelves.

I would try my best to

Well it's all you can do.

LMAO. That was great. What kinda ladies you meeting in the post-apoc?? Lol.

If tensions started to rise between nations I would learn skills and buy supplies and weapons, but if it happened tomorrow, no. But I do have this awesome two handed sword that I could use and pretend to be the dragonborn

^ i would join a roaving band of cannibals like in the road. Usually those decisions don't work out so well but it would be fun for a while. Then I'd set out on my own and look for pockets of civilization and just do my best to live