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what is the obsession of some users of this forum with the so called "blob"?
i have read lots of posts complaining about them yet i really have no idea, what people are talking about as i rarely encounter them.

i mean i play about 7 hours per week 1v1 ladder games vs opponents that are usually ranked somewhere between 100 - 1500. on top of that i enjoy watching streams of more skilled players and tournements.

i have not yet seen or noticed the supposedly unstoppable blobs.

am i the only one?

what is a blob anyway. i remember the days of piospam in coh1. those where blobs!
at times it was a good idea to group 6-10 squads op pioneers and move them as one tactical body.

it actually had benefits to create a blob like that back then, because not only did it save you clicks and micro, but it had the advantage that it was very hard for the opponent to target individual weak sqauds within that group.

from the way i see things there is no blobbing as a strategy in coh2 as there are no benefits of clumping up units in coh2.

to move around multiple squads together and not spread them out only has negative consequences as it makes the player who does that vulnerable to tank shells, strafing runs, mg suppression, mortar rounds, flames, mines, grenades etc etc etc.

on the other hand i would be very caucious with suggestions to buff mgs because my experience from recent patches is that strong mgs are the cause of stale and frustrating gameplay.

i have read it so many times that there is no side armour in this game.

but there actually is. (even though it has no particular value in the game files)

example: a tank has a front armour of 100 an a rear armour of 10.
if you shoot it at an perpedicular angle and if both hitboxes for rear and front are equally sized the armour of the tank when shooting it from the side (lets just name it side armour) is (100+10)/2 =55

it would have nearly have the same effect if the developer decided to code a specific value for the sidearmour with a value of 55

but what if the developer want a specific side armour valu of lets say 70?
no problem:

lets make the hitbox of the front twice as big as the hitbox in the rear and the sidearmour will become: (100*(2/3)+10*(1/3)) = 70

then i must be doing something horribly wrong cause i always struggle against it. And there is alot of cons spammers lately in at.

i did not say that it is easy or hard to beat, i just said that i find it fun to play against.

especially when like yesterday 3 ram attempts fail against your P4 and later your tiger tank, with 1 hp left, bounces something like 5 shots in a row while killing conscript squad after conscript squad, and after you win by some miracle, you go to your opponents livestream and watch him to comletely loose his temper while throwing stuff around his room

it seem that over the last 3 months more people begun to like the americans more while the OKW which was the most liked faction back then with 35% of the votes only got 12% this time

http://www.coh2.org/topic/20528/big-poll

what may be the reason behind that?

lets see again what the people on coh2.org think about their game.

feel free to discuss the results.