Fighting
There are many ways to kill zombies.
Contents
Weapons
By far the most common and reliable way to kill zombies. See the Armoury for more details.
Fist Fights
At a cost of 1 
you have a low chance of killing a single zombie or regain control of the zone for 30 minutes.
Because fist fights are frowned upon the exact chances are not commonly known. Currently it is thought to be between 8 and 10% chance of success but more research is required. (See Talk:Fighting.)
Success: During an frightful encounter, you finally managed to throw a zombie against a rock... Its head literally exploded and the contents splattered onto your shoes ! Breathless, you stagger backwards : that's one more down...one...less...
Success Log entry: (You) went toe to toe with a zombie and managed to finish him !
Failure: You grab one of the wretched automatons with both hands, touching the sticky, putrefied flesh... it's unbearable... You wrestle with it, trying to force it back, but it's not happening... It tries unsuccessfully to bite you several times ! You retreat, out of breath and demoralised...
Failure Log entry: (You) managed to get punched square in the crotch by attacking a zombie with their bare hands... that'll learn them
Vicious uppercut
Heroes may use their vicious uppercut ability once per game to kill 2 zombies instantly.
Break Through
Any player that was an 
Armageddon Witness has the 
Break Through ability. If zombies control the zone, the player has a 50% chance to kill one zombie and gain control of the zone for 10 minutes. There is no cost or penalty, although it can only be used once per town.
Attrition
Attrition results in the deaths of a few zombies overnight after you have successfully fought them in a zone. It is often called loneliness/attrition/despair however not all lonely zombies will die, only the survivors of the day's combat. The way attrition works is 1 zombie will die over night for every 2 zombies that were killed in the zone during the day, this allows you to clear zones more efficiently by leaving the last zombies to die from attrition. This is presumably caused by their wounds or starvation. This effect stacks: if you kill 2 zombies 1 more will die overnight from attrition, if you kill 4 zombies 2 more will die overnight from attrition, if you kill 6 zombies 3 more will die overnight from attrition and so on. Note that zombies will spread before they die of attrition, so if you leave 1 or 2 zombies in a zone hoping that attrition will kill them, you can wake up to find that there are now more zombies than the night before.
Air Strike
Not a direct form of combat but the 
Air Strike will kill all zombies in the same row and column as the town.
