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Post by Nighthawk on Sept 23, 2015 12:11:59 GMT 10
It's been a while but here's another contest based on the game Conflicted, from Survivalogics - conflictedthegame.com/Write your answer in this thread, and at the end we will hold a vote to determine the winner. First prize is a CRKT Drifter folding knife and an APF forum patch. We'll let this run until midnight on 30th September. Here's your scenario: A large gang of travelling looters captured you and your family from your retreat. They drove 150 miles from your location and sold you and your family off at a trading post. A Good Samaritan paid the price for you and set you all free, however he has no desire to help you any further. It's time to start over from nothing in a post-apocalyptic world. How would you go about securing the short term and the long term survival of you and your family? |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2015 18:51:07 GMT 10
Short term would be to find shelter and water, we need to find a somewhere to keep out of the elements and find water and something to put it in.
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Post by Peter on Sept 23, 2015 19:45:26 GMT 10
Short term - find shelter from the elements and dangerous people. Secure a water supply and containers. Set traps for game (I'm assuming we have no weapons). Improvise some defensive devices. Investigate nearby abandoned buildings and vehicles for supplies and transport. This will all require extreme caution.
Middle term - I'd be looking to get to our secondary BOLs (as these are actually within about 100 to 200 km from our retreat (or primary BOL)). There we could either stay for the long haul, or at least recover for a time and resupply. I'm assuming that these places haven't also been raided.
Long term - I'd ideally like to take back our primary BOL. There are, of course, too many variables to say whether or not this would be possible.
All that said, we don't own our own retreat at this stage, so some of the above would change if we actually got one.
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Post by Ammo9 on Sept 23, 2015 19:49:39 GMT 10
Okay so me and my family are dumped without anything but the clothes on our back?
One thing that is for us in this situation is we're at a trading post, sounds like some form of commerce has recommenced. And in this situation I'd do what every man has to do when he's down on his luck and outta work, make himself useful and get a job. Doesn't matter if someone needs a hand fixing a fence or digging a new poo-pit... work for food and water or whatever currency this trading post is using. Hit up the good samaritan and see if he needs a useful hand.
Once the short term needs (water, food) are seen too, find shelter and means of protection. Build a shelter just out of town, or 'rent' somewhere for the family to stay. Rebuild ourselves, regather necessary possessions and try make the most of a horrible situation.
..and then quietly begin to plot against those who wronged me.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2015 20:23:57 GMT 10
Thinking long term.
It goes without saying i would offer to help the good Samaritan, be in debt to him, that may garner a friendship that leads to further mutual help, food, water, tools etc.But the good Samaritan no longer wants anything to do with us, which makes it hard, so i would need skill in gentle persuasion via speech in hope i could get help with my families situation and make plans to travel back to my retreat and regroup.
I would make my way back to retreat. 150 miles is 241 km. If you can travel by foot and know the lay of the land, i would start making my way slowly at night for 10 km and 10 km during the day, that is 12 days of travel, shorter if you can make more ground up.It would take less time if we were tooled up and had supplies to sustain us the journey though.
Why go back to retreat, well it is home and we need to see if what we left there is still there, after all, a savvy survivalist doesn't have all their eggs in one basket, do they?
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Post by shinester on Sept 24, 2015 12:54:37 GMT 10
First thing, the basics of survival. 3 hours without shelter, 3 days without water, 3 weeks without food.
So, shelter, whatever it is, making some kind of shelter, be it old car, made from trees/bush/mud, whatever. This includes some kind of fire, though it might be tricky, really depends on where I am and what I have. Starting fire 'without' flint/matches is really really hard work. Though I'm sure I'd get there eventually, knowing the principles and having done it before.
From here doing some scouting around, collecting any kind of resources and knowing where I might find more would be both part of where we set up and after we set up.
Water. Potentially a tricky one, again depends on location and available resources.
Food - even trickier than water and potentially a diminishing resource as we might be living only on body fat for a bit and unless available locally the best plan might be to get somewhere else, again it depends on the situation.
Exchanging skills/work for food/shelter/water might be a good plan and depending on the circumstances of our capture, it might indeed be worth returning, which would in of itself take basic resources from above. I do have a couple of small cache's and options for locations in which to go, so this would probably be the main plan. It wouldn't be a final solution, it might only buy us a couple of weeks, though it would give us time. Time in survival gives us more options and more time to find a better and more perminent solution.
I doubt it would be worth returning if looters have come through.
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If looters have got close enough to come through and captured me and my family without being noticed or giving us time and warning enough to get out or fight them off gorilla or at my doorstep [last bastion], then really it's way too late.
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Post by Matilda on Sept 24, 2015 19:33:04 GMT 10
Find those abandoned towns in Far North QLD.  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2015 10:25:48 GMT 10
Track down the gang of traveling looters and kill them all...
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Post by Joey on Sept 27, 2015 16:48:57 GMT 10
Consider that the looters have cleaned out your BOL of anything useful they could scavenge.
Firstly assess this new location you are at and what is available on hand be it local resources, trade centres, the types of people coming and going and plan from there.
Firstly build or find some sort of basic shelter close to a water source, and setup some sort of defense for it that you can build from anything left around the area.
Try and start offering your labour services in exchange for food and other items of need.
Start planning on getting to your secondary BOL of which you have hidden cache of supplies and weapons.
Because you are a well prepared prepper you have small hidden stashes of food spaced out an average of 2 days walk from each other to get you around in case anything like this ever happened.
Work towards heading to your secondary BOL with plans to scout your primary BOL to see if the looters managed to find the rest of your hidden supplies there or if they just got what was left out at the time. But consider the primary BOL compromised as some of the looters may have taken up residence there, so consider a night time recce on the area and lie up and observe any activities there while you family is secure and bolstering the perimeter defences at the secondary BOL.
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Post by Joey on Sept 27, 2015 22:19:58 GMT 10
True but it was not stated how you were taken, they might have taken by force of sheer numbers or by ninjas assuming that the family if mum dad and 1 young kid perimeter security is a little difficult and may have happened months or more after the shtf and you have become a little complacent
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