Profile of somenbjorn

I'll try to answer your questions without being an asshole.

Basically you are trying to trace the route to the battle servers using ICMP over port 1. (Not HTTP.) Big parts of the IT infrastructure will answer to ICMP (ping) requests but most servers will not. So what we need to do is trace the route of the packages as they travel over the correct ports using the correct header. And then we will be able to follow it all the way to the battle servers.

Im at work now and don't have the possibility to capture the header for the game right now. But I'll try to check it out as soon as Im able.

Microing tanks.

I have the infantry micro down quite well. (Compared to what it used to be ) But the tanks. uugh make so many mistakes.

Blobbing is just a result of
a) USF and OKW (for the most part) is played most effectively in turns of cost by going heavy infantry into late-game tanks. Call-in meta for soviets kinda have the same issue but isn't blobbed as much by having good support weapons.

b) The most APM effective way to use mobile infantry (As opposed to team-weapons) is to just blob away.

I don't think getting more one-shot-wipe units is the way to go either. But thinking back at games (do note that I play mostly teamgames and count myself as 'average' at best.) I don't think I see that many blobs by Ost or Sovs anymore. Barring the occasional 3 shocks or 4 lmg grens, but nowhere near as common as okw or usf blobs.

Which leads me to think that in order to solve the blobbing problem the overall design of the USF and OKW teams has to be done in order to remedy the problem.

OKW needs a midgame that would be more effective than going volks into obers, and not push their endgame back as far as it does now.
Even in 4v4s you sometimes if you go for AAHT and maybe a stuka, well you get a JgdPanzer or maybe a Panther if Ostheer is nice enough to listen and build caches.
KT is pushed so far back it doesn't feel like an option if spent 150-200 fuel on midgame

USF is a trickier one, since they do have the option for solid midgame play that won't push back their lategame tanks that much. (because USF don't have them ) But having some of the best infantry ingame (Here is hoping that statement wont start a flame war.) It just makes sense to get heavy infantry. Zooks can't deal with panthers and tigers, but they can deal with the early and mid vechicles of both german factions.


TLR blobbing is a result of faction design and the resulting meta. In order to solve the problem of blobbing the factions would need redesigning so the meta changes.

I prefer:

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"Som en björn" is Swedish for "Like a bear". Just write it all in one word and remove germanic letter for compatibility with most programs, and you have somenbjorn.

Started using it while playing BF1942 with friends. One friend started using "somen..." (LikeA...) and the rest of us just followed suit. Bears are awesome and nobody else was using it. Have had it since then I think.

Alot of people do also call me drunkSwede. That came about last spring/summer when I joined the Bears. First match I did was late saturday, and yes I had been drinking, told everyone that "ooh by the way Im realllly drunk right now" about 10 mins into the game. We won btw.

Come monday my company closed down, but I still got paid for 3 more months because of my contract. So I just went WTF, its monday its 11 AM, I have nothing to do, I'll get some beers. And that week I played with the Bears and was drunk for about 10 days straight, hence being renamed as "drunkSwede".