The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: Plan, Plan, Plan

The Walking Dead season 11 part 3

Always have a plan. There are some circumstances where just wingin’ it ain’t enough. 

As I said in the beginning, this week’s episode focused on Maggie, Daryl, Aaron, and Father Gabriel going into battle with Lance Hornsby and his contingent of Commonwealth troopers… a lot of them. Sure, the team could take on a few soldiers here and there, but Hornsby was leading an invasion force, trying to go toe-to-toe with them or march in and liberate their communities would have been suicide. If they’d tried to confront them head-on, the Commonwealth’s numerical advantage meant the team would get turned into Swiss cheese.

So, naturally, the team didn’t just decide to vainly go ham on Hornsby and his minions, but, instead, worked strategically to pick off his troops bit by bit, prevent them from alerting their cohorts back in the Commonwealth about Negan’s arrival, and try to get away from their main force so they could regroup.

In a zombie apocalypse, you need to have a plan for what you’re going to do. In fact, even before a zombie apocalypse, you need a plan so that you don’t waste time as the situation deteriorates around you. Have a plan for what you’re going to do in any major situation you find yourself in so that you’re not winging it and just hoping that things work out.

This is even more important when you’re dealing with hostile survivors. While zombies, especially in large numbers, are an absolute menace, they can’t think. They’ll never have plans, they’ll never strategize. If you come up with a plan to divide and conquer the dead, they’ll never realize what you’re doing and change tact, they’ll simply react mindlessly. Living people, on the other hand, will think ahead, they will plan, they will strategize, and if they realize you’re corralling, leading, manipulating, or organizing against them, they will change up what they’re doing to try to counteract you. It is because of this that you need to have a plan because, if other people realize you’re just flying by the seat of your pants, they will simply find a way to force you into a situation beneficial to them and harmful to and wipe you out.