Profile of somenbjorn

Somenbjorn if you've seen games of me and Aerohank together you have to know for sure that our army composition is not a problem and that we have our Paks ready for rumble, but that doesn't help against the flexibility of a M5, since it's 90% of the time long gone before the pak is in position.

You don't happen to have that replay of you and Aero vs. Choccy and Redbear from saturday saved do you?

Well the answer is: It depends.

Spreading out over a wide front you will have an easier time to find weakness in the enemies lines and with coordination you can make sure to exploit those weaknesses (often there will be several) meaning you can dominate the map.

Focusing costs you awerness of the enemies whereabouts and might lead to you to having gaps in your lines or simply giving up on certain areas.
However it does grant you a good shock-value and it will be easier to overrun one or two of the enemy players and thus weakening them for the game.
But focusing is putting all your eggs in one basket. If you succeed victory will be closer but not ensured, however if your initial push fails for some reason you have nothing. Great risk with potential for great rewards.

Spreading out however you are potentially putting the initiative in the hands of the enemy and you open yourself open to being knocked back by a focused opponent in some area and this is potential game-costing.

You really have to alternate both things for the best effect. Against randoms the focus usually have good results but against arranged teams the second one will be a safer bet.
Alternating between the two during the match is what you want, read the opponent, avoid fighting where the enemy wants to fight, take the initiative and fight on your conditions.

1.) Know what the enemy is up to.
2.) Strike heavy and hard against their weakness.
3.) Reinforce where you are winning.
4.) Where you are loosing/cant push, only harass the enemy as to lock down his units.

Agreed they are hard to sweep but you dont really have* to sweep them. Just know they are there and don't walk 3 units over it at the same time. Why do you have 2-3 units lumped up together anyway?


I never suffer that much from them, I find the more spam-able TM-35 more annoying. I often don't bother defusing them. I just need the vision so i can avoid them and then destroy/defuse when I have control over that particular area.

But I guess things might be different in 1v1.

But what people are saying is basically to remove them for a timer, I get the argument, just feel it isnt much of a problem and is a welcome blob-stopper. Same as Goliath was and I never had issues with that either.

Just for the reason Dusty states.
If you want to get as clear an image as possible on what player is the best player, removing the balance from the equation is a huge part of that.
God I can see it now, statistics threads that shows "all who win play with faction X, faction X OP" Thats a flamewar you don't want.

It just means all players will compete on equal terms and the end result cannot be debated. Best player won simply.

True you can do that, but the question is why would you want to?