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Buses are designed to transport people daily, giving them high durability. They are powerful enough to batter through minor obstructions, such as cars, crudely constructed barricades, and debris. However, a bus does not have the speed or power to break through barriers such as thick concrete, steel, iron, etc., so think twice before trying to ram through a wall. You might just corner yourself and wreck your vehicle. Buses can be easily armoured, which is known as a Battle Bus. Unfortunately, buses have high fuel consumption and are moslty found in a city with more than 3,000 people. With this in mind, a bus will not be able to easily maneuver through a car-littered road flooded with zombies. Buses also make extremely loud noises compared to walking or riding a bike and are noticeably louder than cars or trucks. Every ghoul in the area will quickly swarm around your steel rectangle of death and will make canned meat out of you.
Buses are designed to transport people daily, giving them high durability. They are powerful enough to batter through minor obstructions, such as cars, crudely constructed barricades, and debris. However, a bus does not have the speed or power to break through barriers such as thick concrete, steel, iron, etc., so think twice before trying to ram through a wall. You might just corner yourself and wreck your vehicle. Buses can be easily armoured, which is known as a Battle Bus. Unfortunately, buses have high fuel consumption and are moslty found in a city with more than 3,000 people. With this in mind, a bus will not be able to easily maneuver through a car-littered road flooded with zombies. Buses also make extremely loud noises compared to walking or riding a bike and are noticeably louder than cars or trucks. Every ghoul in the area will quickly swarm around your steel rectangle of death and will make canned meat out of you.
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===Camping Trailers===
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Camping trailers, also called caravans, are unique in the fact that they are so versatile in their sizes, weights, and usages, which come in handy during a zombie apocolypse. All camping trailers are easily modified for attack, defense, or both (see modifying bases and modifying vehicles. the same more or less applieds to camper trailers), and usually are tall enough to keep your feet out of reach from zombie hands should you get surrrounded. The lightest camping trailer is a 1-2 person teardrop trailer or the slighlty larger 3-4 person pop-up camping trailer. Due to their small size, lightwieght, and compactness, they can be towed by almost any vehicle, inculding a motorcycle. These are great for loners or pairs on the move, and because they are the size of the average compact hatchback (or smaller), they are very mobile in an urban enviornment. You can even get off-road versions. Please note however, that these are not built with strength in mind. fortifications are almost always nessisary. The next size up would be your standard 15-25 ft camper that can hold 7-10 people and still have room for supplies such as refrigerated food, medicine, ammo, etc. mostly open road for this one, although wherever the vehicle towing it can go, the camper can go as well, provided that height isn`t a concern. these bases are fairly sturdy, but could definately benifit from some modifications. Inbetween these two are `slidders`, campers that `slide` into the bed of pickups. These hold anywhere from 3-6 people, and are prefered by constantly on-the-move surviviors as their vehicle and base are one and the same. Manvouverable in urban, country, or desolate enviornments, as they are not being towed, but hauled by the vehicle (such as , they are part of the vehicle). The largest campers that are available are 30-40 ft long, have high roofs, and can still hold up to only 10 people, however, they have much more storage space than the smaller campers, including space for ATV`s, dirtbikes, etc. Pretty durable and might not even need modifications, although they can flip over at high speeds. Can handle moderate off roading, although are primarily highway bases. with little to no use in a city or suburb envoirnment except as deathtraps. They increase gas consumption by quite a bit, which is bad for already inefficent trucks and SUVs, although a diesel vehicle will help that problem. Please note that for any and all of these mobile bases described, one of the main factors will be what vehicle is towing it. for example, if a Dodge Ram is towing a teardrop trailer, then little to no fuel economy will be lost due to the trailer`s weight (1500 to less than 500 pounds) and the fact that the Dodge Ram is designed to tow. If you slap a towbar onto a Honda CRV crossover or a sedan like the Toyota Pruis and hook up a 23 foot Airstream, then you will suffer from extremely slow going, terrible gas mileage, and extreme premature drivetrain failure. ( which in turn will lead to to be devoured by zombies). Point being,camper bases are only as mobile as the vehicles that ''are able to'' tow them.
===Large Ships===
===Large Ships===