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Relic would have to say "Debuff when X number of squads are within X Meters". Sure you can add modifiers like "X number of the same squad" but then you get into all kinds of goofy conundrums.

The only potential debuff I've talked about in this thread concerns RA while suppressed by an HMG. That takes care of much, if not all, of the generally legitimate issue you've raised.

(there is a difference between mindless clump blobbing and tactical concentration of forces). Should an Ostheer player get punished for having 2 shreked up PZ Grens hanging around their other Infantry providing AT support?

This depends on what kind of debuff would be implemented. If it consisted merely of increasing RA from HMG fire for concentrated infantry, that would not make difference in the sense that the Panzergrenadiers would get suppressed anyway, only post-debuff they would take more damage because they are mixed up in an unorganised concentration with other infantry, instead of tactical spacing and cover utilisation.

The problem is that you can't really ever really decide what the criteria for a "blob" is without context

A blob is a concentration of troops that would be deemed impractical and/or dangerous in a real-life combat scenario.

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Ah, good to know it was okay to take on the task of giving advice in here.

I am planning to focus on playing 1v1s and if I feel I can contribute with my experience to threads like this one in the Ask the Strategist section, I will PM you for sure. Cheers.

I feel like there is a misconception on why people like OP and myself would like to see a debuff to blobs in CoH2.

The reason in many cases is not that we lose games to blobs, but the fact that the absence of direct and tangible punishment for choosing to blob -- instead of making your brain and fingers work -- means blobbers don't see the reason why they shouldn't do it:

* They see their blobs kill HMGs before the latter can suppress them and think that means blobbing is the way to go, even if their blobs get punished in late game by artillery -- they will just blame it on game design for "OP" indirect fire;

* They see their blobs kill an unsupported tank, and whereas not supporting your tank means you deserve to lose it, it shouldn't justify blobbing -- but that is exactly what happens in the eyes of the blobber in question;

Etc.

The problem is not that there are no counters to blobbing. It is that even just the presence of blobs throughout a match hurts tactical gameplay -- if you don't blob and your opponent does, that still means half the tactical play is missing from that match. And that should be a problem for a community and developers of a game that pretends it is about combined arms, micro and smart thinking.

Lelic seems to like them. Just like it took them years to fix the damn plane crashes wiping armies because it was "spectacular", I wouldn't be surprised if they like seeing blobs because they "show the scale of ww2" or something like that. The fact that they ruin tactical gameplay and are eye cancer is secondary to them.