GoogleFrog , please look at this game's sea play and think HOW to counter lobster/scallops for the known reasons stated multiple times in the forum. till you have a solution, please remove that unit from the game.

I remember somebody suggesting makeing lobster much more expensive but increasing the grab distance drasticly while keeping HP the same, to encourage lobster snipes.

The kind of description you have made in that post could be applied to various other unit combinations such as:

- Placeholders holding units still for Jacks (and other stuff)
- shields protecting artillery/Felons/whatever that would otherwise be fragile
- constructors making terraform pillars for Crab
- cloaked units spotting for Phantom/Sling/whatever
- Thunderbird with a lot of stuff
et cetera.

I think the game is better off for having these kinds of synergistic units and strategies. The problem in this case is how strong this particular strategy happens to be, not that the synergy exists at all.

I'm not qualified to make any definite statement about lobster balance, but in this case, sea was basically 4 (note the squad merge on our side) vs 1, sometimes 2, yet mojjj held out for quite a while.

Scallobsterballs sure do tons of damage, but they also often seem to die quickly at their destination, which is usually in enemy reclaim territory, so I'm not sure.