The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: Don’t rely on miracles

4) Give the dead something else to focus on.

Okay, if you were part of the alliance, and trapped in a skyscraper like they are, surrounded by Beta, the Whisperers, and a horde of thousands of walkers, what would you do to try to fight them?

I know what I’d have done: I’d have left something scattered around the tower that I could have ignited around the horde once they were close enough.

Why? Well, think about it: Even if Beta and the rest of the Whisperers were trying to herd the walkers back toward the tower, would they be able to compete with the light, sound, and motion of a bunch of fires behind them? I doubt it.

If the horde was scattering towards the flames, it might throw the Whisperers into chaos trying to corral them, and give the alliance an opening to either try to fight back or make some kind of escape. Anything that causes the dead (And, in this particular case, the Whisperers, too) to focus on something other than you, is something you want around, because every second they’re not focused on you is one more second you have to plan, fight, or escape.

In a situation like what we saw when The Walking Dead left off, you need to take every advantage you can get, and using the dead’s focus on any sources of light, sound, or movement around them is probably the best a situation like that gives you. How you choose to use that advantage is up to you, but, that’s the first idea that comes to my head.