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Jump back to quoted post28 Dec 2022, 07:16 AMdonofsandiego

Blobbing =/= Spamming

I'm talking about archer units being blocked by units in front of them, napoleonic rifle infantry having to fire by rows or they will be blocked by the units in front of them, shogun 2 gunpowder units which need clear line of sight to fire on the enemy.

Blobbing = You concentrate all the strength of a group of units (usually in a huge group, hence the term "blobbing") on an enemy unit to destroy it before it's able to retaliate in any way, thereby basically winning an engagement for free.

Spamming = Using a large amount of a certain unit because the enemy has failed to field enough counters against said unit to render those units useless. Doesn't necessarily mean they are all in the same spot, unlike blobbing.

Blobbing can counter units designed to counter them by simple force of numbers. Spamming is not the same as blobbing.

Also, I've played total war games (the ones put out before the franchise was turned to utter shite by CA), and cavalry units are just very strong in general. However, using them in a mass blob is not effective. I highly doubt your opponent was "blobbing" them. They might have been using a lot of them (spamming), but putting them all in one big square and running at you would make the cataphracts much less effective.

On a side note, TBQH Total War's multiplayer system is just retarded in general because you've no idea what your enemy's army composition is beforehand. If you had known beforehand that they would be fielding straight cavalry, and they were "blobbing" them, you could have easily countered it, unlike in CoH2 where if you know your enemy is blobbing and you build counters, they can just instakill them before they even get a chance to do anything.

Jump back to quoted post26 Dec 2022, 12:54 PMTheMachine

Lol this is so spot on! It's poorly designed that Obersoldaten that have both bundle grenades and frangibles to annihilate SMG troopers up close such as Rangers, despite having already shredded them on approach. LMG grens are better designed since they can't use rifle grenades up close, but LMG's in general still have pretty high DPS up close. There's very little downside to LMG's.

My big one: Having most infantry squads reliant on long-range DPS (LMG's) which means that instead of taking cover and tactical positioning, the optimal micro is often to just attack moving around in a blob to get max range LMG's firing ASAP.

Or: 1 man cheese snipers that discourage active gameplay and instead force opponents to surprise blob up to it to try and force it to retreat or instagib it before the player reacts.

Beyond these two, there's so much of CoH2's design that actively encourages and promotes blobbing that could otherwise be avoided. Then people are always so surprised and disgusted to see people blobing.