Tactical Thursday: How to Defend your Prison (Part 2)

Welcome back troop-a-loops, to Tactical Thursdays! If you haven't already, please read last week's blog post so you understand the principles of OPs and arcs of fire.

This week I will be building off of that, and explain how to increase your kill-to-death ratio and get more bang for your buck when defending your camp from the zombie horde.

There are two key characteristics of an effective defensive position, and that is one that is in enfilade and defilade.

Enfilade is french word for...I don't know what...but it give the defensive line the ability to fire along the enemy's longest axis.

Frontal enfilade is best achieved by funneling the enemy into your position, by natural or man-made obstacles (barbed wire in Wor​ld War 1 is a great example of this).

Flanking enfilade requires you to place a firing position along the left or right of your main defensive line. Picture the season four prison siege in Walking Dead; when that straight line of vehicles pulled up in an extended line to the front gates, a well placed machine gun on the far right flank, even one outside the wire, would have done exponential more damage than one embedded with the rest of the main body. More on the science of this next week.

The following is a first-person view of the field-of-fire for the bunker on Juno Beach in World War II. This is a great example of good enfilade fire.

Defilade is another crazy francophone phrase that describes the opposite - using natural or man-made obstacles to protect yourself from enfilade fire.

Defilade is a 360 degree concern. Always consider your exposure from the front, sides, and even up above. Zombies can't shoot back, but the Governor sure can. Good defilade will not only protect you from direct fire, but it will also camouflage and conceal your position. That second part will be especially useful against zombies, especially if you want to wait until the last moment to fire off your flanking machine gun.

Defilade can easily be constructed in the winter months - check out our Instagram to see my personally made snow defense.

And that about wraps it up troops! Remember, that enfilade helps you get more kills, and defilade reduces your deaths. When used together, your kill-to-undeath ratio in the defensive will fly through the roof!

Next week: how to do the most damage to Zachariah with that aforementioned machine gun in enfilade.