Ayup, and quite an important part of many zombie stories. The Max Brooks ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE, the book that he wrote before WORLD WAR Z, includes one anecdote about a Roman unit tasked with fighting undead, where one of their rules was, if a soldier was bitten, the next soldier over immediately (or, as soon as the zombie that bit him was dead) decapitated the bitten soldier and they closed ranks.
It's even more blatant in the Mira Grant NEWSFLESH series, where EVERY mammal larger than a medium-sized dog becomes a zombie a few minutes to an hour after it dies, no matter what kills it. You always shoot a body in the head no matter WHY it died.
Lousy at naval warfare, so they invented the grappling hook and marched troops onto the Carthaginian ships.
Impulsiveness astounded them, as when the pirates that resulted from the invention took a young poet hostage and criticized his poetry, and for that (plus the fact that he didn't think they were charging enough ransom for him) he told them he'd come back and kill every pirate in the Mediterranean. After he was freed he raised a force and did exactly that.
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Lousy at naval warfare, so they invented the grappling hook and marched troops onto the Carthaginian ships.
Impulsiveness astounded them, as when the pirates that resulted from the invention took a young poet hostage and criticized his poetry, and for that (plus the fact that he didn't think they were charging enough ransom for him) he told them he'd come back and kill every pirate in the Mediterranean. After he was freed he raised a force and did exactly that.
He later went on to conquer Gaul.
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