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@ Sneakking - Man, I want to try that now!
History of the elite SS Division 'Das Blobhaus'
Records suggest Standartenfuhrer Oskar Bhlob first devised the lethal infantry tactic known as *Blobgruppen*
Used initially by SS Div. Das Blobhaus at Kursk in the summer of 1943, the use of massed elite infantry marching shoulder-by-shoulder might have turned the course of the war.
"If only we'd had the Blobgruppe at Stalingrad," said ex-division Scharman Hans Krunch, "we'd have won. As it was the battle was fought by the Ostheer, equipped with cardboard scout cars and suboptimal Tier Four choices."
Oskar Bhlob was an instructor at the SS school at Bad Tolz when he noticed that when marching close together, heavily-muscled recruits of low intelligence formed a strange, almost mystical uber-shield that deflected bullets.
"Himmler came to Bad Tolz to see a demonstration," recalls Bhlob, who even when interviewed in 1988 still had five gold stars floating over his head, "we lined up four squads and fired a maxim gun at them. There was, quite literally, no effect apart from a few scratches."
The Division, which had no need of tanks, first deployed in the third wave at Kursk. "We were equipped with magical Kubelwagen," said Bhlob, "which moved at incredible speed and were fitted with MG34s blessed by the Fuhrer himself. Two of them could pin down a company of Russkis quite easily."
He remembers their first fateful engagement.
"Each Blobgruppen had four panzerfausts and an MG34. At Ponyri they bested a T34/85 battlegroup with ease. Ivan's tank guns had no effect, bouncing off the SS men's heavily-polished foreheads. It was marvelous to behold!"
Seven Knight's Crosses were awarded, with diamond blob clusters.
Sadly, the Blobgruppen were squandered in set-piece battles by generals with no understanding of their potential.
The last of these legendary warriors were seen forming an orderly line, six deep, in front of an IS-2 tank in Berlin. It was April 1945.
"If only we'd had a tiny rocket gun," said Bhlob, a tear in his eye, "we would have won."
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I didn't say I was utterly helpless. What I did do, though, was go for the usually very strong T1 Sov opening against OKW. The sturms shot up the M3, penal troops are mediocre against volks and the quick Death-star-on-tracks that is the fap-halfie is never far behind.
The argument that "if you can't take out OKW in the early game then you deserve to lose" is even more dense.
They can build more or less everything they need from their base building FFS. Then comes the elite call-in infantry.... |
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^ Exactly, recently in 2 v 2 and 3 v 3 I've seen the power of the early OKW blob. Forget kubels - it's 2 x Sturms then volks, volks, volks, volks...
Next thing you know they've got a gun truck on the cut-off and gg.
I know, it's coh2.org--- L2p kappa (etc)
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