The Walking Dead No Man's Land: Bulldozer Shotgun Guide

To get the most value from the Bulldozer Shotgun in The Walking Dead No Man's Land, equip it on a Shooter class survivor and aim across dense walker clusters rather than isolated targets. Its wide-angle cone distributes heavy physical damage across multiple adjacent tiles, allowing your Shooter to stall and clear incoming crowds before threats reach melee range.

Unlocking and Upgrading Priorities

You can obtain the Bulldozer Shotgun by collecting specialized weapon tokens or opening targeted event crates when the weapon appears in the active reward rotation.

Once acquired, upgrade the shotgun using standard weapon components and scrap:

1. Raise Base Level First: Immediately level the shotgun to match your Council and Survivor caps so its base damage scales against higher walker health pools.
2. Conserve Shooter Scrap: Avoid splitting components across redundant shooter weapons while preparing the Bulldozer for active missions.
3. Refine Traits Later: After reaching your baseline level cap, use the Workshop to re-roll perks to maximize damage thresholds against armored targets and special walkers.

Combat Mechanics and Positioning

Unlike standard single-target shooter rifles, the Bulldozer Shotgun trades long engagement range for a wide, multi-tile blast arc.

Because shotguns have a shorter reach than sniper rifles and assault carbines, misjudging distance can leave your survivor exposed during the enemy turn. Follow these tactical rules:

• Funnel Swarms Through Chokepoints: Draw walkers into narrow street alleys, doorways, or natural map barriers before attacking. This prevents pellet dispersal and concentrates damage into the frontline ranks.
• Reposition Early: If an approaching group spreads out, use your turn to adjust horizontally across the pack rather than firing into open, scattered tiles.
• Save Points for Overwatch: If your Shooter cannot eliminate every approaching threat, hold enough action points to trigger Overwatch or step back out of reach. Overwatch attacks can interrupt advancing runners before they reach your perimeter.

Survivor Synergies and Team Composition

Pair the Bulldozer Shotgun with survivors whose leadership skills or traits boost ranged critical strike chance and charge meter buildup.

• Maggie: Her leadership skill increases critical hit rates for ranged survivors, giving each pellet in the shotgun's spread an independent chance to trigger critical damage.
• Rick: Rick's survivability perks and charge generation help frontline shooters withstand pressure and reset attack cycles quickly.
• Shooter Class Badges: Equip generic shooters with badges that improve charge attack gain and critical hit multipliers to clear fresh reinforcement spawns rapidly.
• Melee Support (Warrior or Scout): Run a dedicated melee survivor alongside your Shooter. The melee unit can hold chokepoints and herd walkers together without forcing your Shooter to absorb retaliation damage.

Recommended Weapon Traits

When modifying the Bulldozer Shotgun in the Workshop, prioritize traits that boost close-to-mid-range burst clearing:

• Destructive: Multiplies base damage to help guarantee single-attack kills against standard walker types.
• Piercing: Allows shots to punch through front-row targets to damage walkers directly behind them.
• High Capacity: Increases magazine size to reduce down turns spent reloading during mission objectives.