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Which Jaeger do you mean?
Jaeger Armor is definitely great. Since you got a fancy Ele callin, i'd go for T3 as max, mostly for 1-2 P4 / Ostwind. But depending on map one can manage to stay alive easily with just T1 & T2 + the scoped maphack 222.

(2v2+ perspective)

My two cents is that you don't really understand the concept I exposed. This is sad

Too bad i do. And i'm telling you, it will only affect spam, not blobbing.
And the worst part: it will minimize fun strats.

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Factions like soviets are supposed to use callins, and skip tech. The latter counts for OKW & USF as well, and even as OST you rarely ever build all four Tiers, even though you have to tech for them. One would need to rework the whole teching / economy system - that's never gonna happen, nor will it EVER fix blobbing.

A blob format like the one from SPrice would still work. He just gets some REs, or drops Paras,... or keeps spamming Rifles and techs up to LT / Cpt into Major - oh wait, he already does that btw.

Again, a blob is nothing else than bunched up units, no matter if two or twenty units. You can't just magically draw a line somewhere as you please. In the end the more you bunch up the more you should suffer to indirect fire, supression, that sort of stuff - but one (too) rarely does in COH2.



Sure you can debuff blobbing without drawing a strict line, by incoming accuracy modifier due vicinity, increasing AoE on explosives, giving supression a better AoE, etc pp.
The more you blob, the more you suffer.
- the current ISG / Howi mechanic is a good example for this.

So you can equip 2 of the same? or up even to 3? That starts to be interesting, Would it be better the 2% faster cooldown and reload or 3% reload or even 3% acc?

You can always equip different bulletins for the same unit.
But the exact same bulletin only mostly stacks, but some don't. Nobody knows which exactly don't.

In the end it's just a decent and slight edge for your working horse units, or specialists.

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Its just a matter of balance between the 2 of them. If blobbing is so effective, it is primarily because it is cheaper to maintain than going combined arms (because combined arms suppose investing and using fuel)...
but less for Sov and USF...
Katitof is wrong in his solution for one reason, nobody can clearly define what blob is. Applying a debuff is something I would like as well...

If you increase popcap / upkeep for all units, why would that stop me from getting an Xth Gren squad instead of an MG42, and then run around blobbed with them?
If you just do it for certain units, do you really think players will not just spam & blob other units?

Your mechanic will at best only limit the quantity of a certain unit, not the blobbing itself.
With your suggestion 6 Rifles spread out properly would be a "blob", and 3 Volks + 3 Obers a-moving together not.

Btw. you got to be kidding me with SOV & USF not blobbing, especially this patch.

You could define a blob by area of effect. If two of my squads stand 15 meters apart, a mortar shell will never hurt them both at once, if they're close together they're "kinda blobbed" and get both some damage.
If i engage an ISG with 3 Rifles blobbed, in worst case they get insta suppressed by a hit, if i spread them out, they won't.

While i like Katitofs idea, i'm not really sure how that would work out either. I'd simply prefer a further buff of anti blob weaponary.

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So more the game last, more blobbing would cost in term of popcap. ...

How would this even work with factions that can skip tech?
Why would popcap influence blobbing... at all?

How would the 1st option ever influence blobbing when by the time you would need the current popcap you already got it anyways.

How would the 2nd option be ever a good idea, if teching up to counter blobbing also screws your popcap over?

Or as Katitof said: "both solutions are terrible"