1. Your telling me you can't get an abrams so mired in mud it will throw a track? Pulped flesh and cartilage should create roughly the same issues AFAIK. The human body is mostly water after all.
2. Again AFAIK they weren't totally overrun at any point except possibly when defending civilians, (in which case you can hardly complain about them standing their ground).
3. I don't know NYC geography but the battle is known as the battle of junkers if memory serves me right so maybe that helps. All i really know is that wherever it took place it was the last place before the hordes could start to spread way out and go every which way. It's also important to note that once again everyone underestimated the zombies. They'd shown no sign of moving out en mass for some time since the city fell, so apparently everyone just assumed they'd stay there the odd stragglers aside and that was all that the deployed troops were assigned to cope with, the mass movement flat footed them because no one expected it. Weather that's completely realistic i can't say and i'd defer to your judgment on.
4. My understanding is they weren't so much spread out as the disease was and everyone kept underestimating how fast spreading and virulent it would be, and just how difficult the zombies would be to deal with.
5.Yeah but where are they stockpiled, if most of it's stockpiled at a limited rnage of locations it may not be available on hand at a moments notice. What about the munitions, are they stockpiled with the weapons or elsewhere, if it;s old enough do you have anyone who even knows how to oporate or maintain it.
So true, i've often though wwz would provide dozens of good myths for them.
What i mean by limited guns is the US only has so many tube artillery, so many SPG, so many rocket systems e.t.c. Start putting those into their organizational units and you actually can't go out and say every base has enough, and thats assuming none have been frittered away in penny packets. That same penny packet problem could also impact your recon ability curtailing your maximum effective rnage.
And thats just looking at he USm, an attempted search turned up a lot more info o the UK army which apparently has 7 regiments equipped with 105's, 3 with mixed 155/MLRS and 1 with pure MLRS at 32 units a regiment, thats a significantly lower number per pop than the US, (numbers i dug up said 2k 155, 1k MLRS, and unknown on 105 or HIMARS), with just 350 systems, most of which are either small calibre 105's or slow reloading MLRS systems.
That said a military base allowed to fort up could probably hold off a zombie attack no problem. But in a zombie apocalypse, you, (and for that matter the troops if their locals), are going to want to protect all the civilians that didn't get zombified in the surrounding area, (and beyond), and then we once again come back to the penny packet problem. Any single force might be able to handle X zombies, or run away all day, but if the zombie drift carries a force bigger than X to them and they've got civilians or some other must hold objective to defend then you've got a real problem.
That said i never claimed the book was 100% acurratte, if there aren't issues i'd be amazed, there's no such thing as perfection. For example AFAIK the bomblets of an MLRS are airbursting by default whilst i believe the book treated them as ground contact detonating, which changes one scene i had brought up in the last discussion significantly.