MZB's...

Fight or flee if it is to fight then some of the following..

Barricade every doors with furniture like a fridge. Take wire and rope make like spider nest in front of all big windows and likely entry points.

The old plank of wood with nails or screws pushed through. If you don't have any nails then will have to rapidly dismantle a bookshelf or something and get some.

at each potential entry point put water jam marbles strewn furniture and trip hazards like more rope at chin height. Basically the inside perimeter of the house is a junk pile of furniture. Put the fridge and freezer at either end of the passageway, with other furniture to make a corral with the intention to defend the area between the master bedroom and living area, with some option to escape through a secondary bedroom.

Will contact the next door neighbours and offer them refuge
for joint defence, so it is not divide and conquer. So there will be more adults in the house to defend. Dogs go in the house in the bathroom with children. Best weapon is a knife duck-taped to the end of a broom stick. Each person will get a knife for close hand to hand combat.

Position the wife in the passage with vision on both sides but no direct vision from outside the house with the rifle. Position any other adults with home made spear in bedrooms leading to the passage, to stab the buggers as the climb through the window and get stuck or trip etc.. Climb into the roof where it overhangs the front door and wait for them, as soon as they approach the front door blast then through the ceiling with both barrels of the shotty. That will take 2-3 down easily. Read the situation and step back a few paces and jump through the ceiling into the house. Reload shotty and climb over the barricade into the passageway or move to the other entry point were you saw persons approach the house. (will need to keep visual on the method they use to enter neighbours property).

Then it is simply try and shoot the buggers on entry to the house. Swap the DB and take the rife and snipe the AR15 guy if possible. If there is another able body person a neighbour perhaps that can use firearms put him on the roof withe the rife to snipe.

What can go wrong....... If one is in that kind of situation things have already gone very badly. In Australia people tend of flee when there are gunshots, and there are no medical facility to patch you up so people will be more cautious if a few get killed, and hopefully move out to an easier target.

Snipe the guy with the AR15 one shot - it is very difficult to tell where the shot came from if only one round. It will make them a bit more cautious but not having to deal with overwhelming cover fire might be worth it. It might also result in the house being firebombed. I think too much of a risk.

Crawl out of the house through the neighbors fence with the family taking as much as we could carry.

Before going, open all the gas up in the house and cook off a can of fly spray on 30min in the microwave.

Also light some small fires in the house to burn the joint down.

The distraction should give more attention to the house than us having left.

From there get out of the entire place head bush.

If you have a subfloor space or similar you can access and hide in, do it. If 5 people spent 10 minutes clearing out a house, they're not doing a good job. It's a smash and grab. Prepare to bug out if hiding places do not exist.

30 armed vs 2 armed is suicide, especially after they have already demonstrated means and intent to kill. 30 minutes of prep time is not going to give you enough of a dig in to fight off 10 to 1 odds. If you think otherwise, you've watched Home Alone too many times, or your house is already a death trap.

If some supplies have not been packed for bugging out, you've already made a very grave mistake.

Improvise incendiaries and smoke making devices from household goods (should have already prepared some on standby prior this even occurring). Firearms should be considered to fight a rear guard action rather than offensively. If you can access the rear of the adjacent property with relative safety, firebomb it before leaving as a distraction. Throw incendiaries to cover your exit. If sighted, use heavy fire to suppress and try to convince them there are more armed people than there actually is. Doesn't matter how many bullets you have left if you're dead.

It's not in your house.


Really well thought out scenario, as it removes the toys/setup you'd normally have and forces you to make a quick decision with less than optimal conditions.  Makes you realise decision making + skills > tools.

The only viable option is to leave.

You can't win against that many (not with a bolt gun and DB shottie anyhow) and even if you could keep them out they'll just burn the house down with you inside.

Take what you can and leave as quickly and quietly as possible. Its not your place anyhow so you have somewhere to go.

Either way there are risks. The raiders might have a group at the back who are expecting people to flee with goods and pick them off in the open. It is a fluid situation with no really good options. Also a bit unrealistic as in a situation where all law an order has failed most would start taking some precautions.
But I think good to discuss what strategies are available not just I will run away.

If you have a semi auto, reasonable calibre with a bunch of 20 to 30 round capacity magazines, then maybe as they are standing around outside you can hit enough of them to cause panic and withdrawal.  You can guarantee they'll come back for revenge though.

If you have a bolt action and DB shotgun vs AR15s though, not good odds.

The history books might have examples of victory against superior numbers because it makes better reading.  Reading about 2 people getting butchered by 30 doesn't make inspirational reading. 

I disagree. A bolt action or shotty in the right hands can be lethal over and above a semi or full auto. It depends on whose hands what is in.

Bugging out right away. Grab what I can and go.