A flaming baseball bat!

[Icewind]

We have the fuel canister (I think even a whisky bottle will do) spill some on the weapon  and ignite it with lighter!

Let the fights begin!

 

The main purpose of that is of course some fun

 

The advantages are:

More damage. A baseball bat with nails and on fire!! Come and get it zombie!!

A high chance to ignite a zombie when hit. One zombie on fire can ignite others that walking close to him.

You can use a flaming baseball bat as a torch! You can fight and illuminate your way around at night at the same time ))

You can go for a night raids!

 

The disadvantage is:

Your weapon’s durability goes down even if you don’t fight… well coz its on fire…, so eventually it will burn down to ashes.

No repair options available.

I guess you can also ignite it at the campfire – no need of fuel or whisky in this case. It will take some time, like when you drink from a sink.

And you can also extinguish the weapon in a water barrel, if you have one near you.

 

 

Advantage:

1)      More damage.

2)      A high chance to ignite a zombie.

3)      A chance to ignite the whole horde of them!!

4)      Gives you light at night, like a torch.

5)      Easy to craft.

 

Disadvantage:

1)      Weapon’s durability goes down constantly.

2)      Weapon will be destroyed.

3)      Unrepairable

[Suomiboi]

A fun idea, but not very realistic to be honest.

 

Firstly, a bat with some burning fluid will not burn but a few seconds. Secondly, you'd have to hold the flaming bat to a zombie for quite a while before it's clothing would catch fire and even then it's very likely to douse off pretty quickly. In other words it wouldn't add much more than flare. (pun intended)

 

Oh and welcome to the forums Icewind!! We're always glad to have new members! (clyde)

[Icewind]

Thanks Suomiboi,

 

And yes, you probably right… zombies suppose to be rotting, bleeding, “juicy” and accordingly - hard to ignite with a single hit…

Well, I guess then I am suggesting a simple torch 
 

[rumpel]

you'd have to hold the flaming bat to a zombie for quite a while before it's clothing would catch fire and even then it's very likely to douse off pretty quickly. 

 

"Please Mr. Zombie, a li'l patience, I just want to keep you warm a li'l bit!" 

 

I think that might be interesting in some kinda melee mode, but actually

you couldn't control the fire once it really starts to burn; so there'd also

be the risk you set yourself on fire. A flare indeed would make more

sense in that although fighting with a flare could be very ineffective,

since their durability in combat can't be pretty high. For light effect you

could bind together the bat with a torchlight... but that would destroy

the light within a few attacks I guess.

[Vonholtz]

I am going to have to say no to this one. You pour a flammable liquid over a bat light it then hold it over your head to swing. What do you think is going to happen. Well let just say the zombies will have a cooked meal this time.

 

In this game fire is more likely to be bad for you as it is for the zombies. Oh also flaming bats are a big sigh that say here I am come eat me. LoL