User blog comment:Deathblade 100/Superhuman Slayers: Zombies vs French Foreign Legion/@comment-24664052-20160409044654

“Legion of the Living Dead” Edges

Long Range: FFL

It’s a no-brainer. While a gunshot won’t be able to kill a zombie unless you go for the brain, the fact that it can kill while the Zombie Moan can’t gives the UMP the edge.

Mid Range: FFL

Zombies use 100% of their muscles, making them as strong as the strongest bodybuilder. However the Benelli can shred a zombie’s head with one shot, not to mention that it has stopping power to knock a Zombie flat on its back. Unless the Zombies use their advantage in numbers, I don’t see their Zombie Hands alone can stop, much less overwhelm a seasoned soldier.

Close Range: Zombies

The KA-BAR is indeed a proven tool in combat and can be used in different ways, but the Zombie Mouth is packed with virus. Also the KA-BAR must be placed perfectly in a weak spot, in this case the Zombie’s brain. Being that close to the Zombie heightens the risk of being bitten.

Special: Zombies

The Claymore is engineered to take out an enemy squad in one blow, but against a number of hundreds, you might as well need hundreds of Claymore mines, and it’s not like any military organization would equip their men entirely with bombs only because of the weight. Also the pellets tend to go at any part of the target as long as it’s facing the target, but to kill a Zombie you need to take out its head. Also, facing a Zombie Horde also has psychological impact; the never-ending stream of enemies can put a strain to even a soldier’s battle-hardened mind.

WINNER:

I understand that there are valid points why the Zombies might win this battle, but I’ll go for the FFL here. The Zombies indeed have numbers and the threat of the virus at their side, but if a group of gun-toting civilians with no experience of hard combat can take them on (even in World War Z novel, albeit took on realistically, they are able to do so. Those Rambos, no, but the ones on the Blue Zones, and especially on the Five Universities, yes.), I’m certain that a band of battle-hardened soldiers who are expected to die can do it better. While even if at the end the last legionnaire gets infected anyway, it takes time for the virus to take effect, and by the time he lapses into coma he would have killed the rest of the Zombies, since Legionnaires are trained to value the success of a mission above other priorities after all.