hrmm.. maybe a compromise? Take some 8' pie pans, and strap em, or duct tape em to the chest and back... when hit, they make a unmistakable sound, there's no hiding it... lol, and it gives relatively small target areas, for such a juggernaut to be taken in one or two hits...
I tested the pan idea, from that Virus zombie PDF I posted in the other link.
Other than figuring out a way to fix em on ya, they worked very well.