KOKO said
Ahh.. just me raging. Since writing posts on this forum with my HTC Desire is a shitty as f*ck! I hope the guy i wrote to did not take it personaly since the anger in the post was at the phone, not the original poster. The thing is in one of my post i made my character find a crashed HumVee belonging to Army Rangers, since their base (Fort Lewis) is located near Tacoma. Inside he found 3 small arms: M4 SOPMOD II, FN SCAR-H, Berreta M9 and ammo for the latter two. He posted that it was unrealistic since, they would send a team to recover the arms. I posted that the risk would be too hign to make a scalvage op. FOR TWO RIFLES. US has one of the largest militaries in the world, so they probably would have the guns to arm them all. So it would be an small loss. Not to mention military seem just to die off in The Walking Dead series.
Just getting in on this whole thing now, but.. Yes, your point about it potentially being too dangerous is absolutely valid. However I'm inclined to disagree with you on the latter. Yes, our military is huge, but as you correctly pointed out afterwards, many in this series seemed to die off, suggested that the military may have fragmented. Therefore the humvee may not have been an official army vehicle, but rather the remains of a platoon that had mostly been killed, and they were just trying to survive like anyone else. In which case, and in a world where guns are your livelihood, it is more than plausable that someone would want to go back for it.
Edit: in response to Exit's point, this is true, had the humvee crashed during the initial outbreak, it almost certainly would be empty. If you were a scavenger, and you had the choice to search a Prius, or a humvee, which would you choose?
However, again, the military could have fragmented. That vehicle may have crashed two weeks ago in-game time, and hasn't been looted yet. Additionally remember that the human population of the planet is not shrinking instead of growing. Each new year there are less and less people to scavenge than there were during the initial outbreak. That is, assuming more people are dying by biters, than babies being born (which i'd imagine that level is really low; enough condoms for a population of 3.5 billion, and the mindset that bringing a baby into this world would be unfair to it)
