5 Reasons why Hilltop’s defensive strategy was stupid on The Walking Dead

The Walking Dead has done a good job of building communities ready for defense. Their plan for Hilltop, however, was brutally flawed from the start.

Let’s face it, all the gardening and music collecting has made the group weak. The Walking Dead crew would be better off establishing a set of rules like the main character in Zombieland. Rules or not, they could have done better in preparation for the defense of Hilltop.

Here are five reasons why the defense of Hilltop was horribly flawed.

Two scouts?

So you’re telling me the entire defense of Hilltop depended on two remotely stationed people who chime in periodically on radios? One sentry point and that’s it? A single point of failure and the entire zombie horde comes walking down Main Street to the gates. That’s just stupid on multiple levels.

Here’s a simple idea: Multiple checkpoints. Here’s another: People stationed high up in trees as silent lookouts. Or what about series of people in tree houses like Ewoks? Anything to get the word back to Hilltop a little earlier.

Initial volley

The plan of a few hastily put together spikes and an amateur hour rendition of 300 simply does not cut it. The Hilltop squad was woefully prepared, despite how cool they thought their armor looked. They should have had multiple layers of defense, starting with initial volleys from far away. Kind of like how they were attacked by the Whisperers. Launch dozens of arrows from atop the walls, and see where they land. In fact, they should have been practicing such a tactic on a daily basis, just so they had their range understood.