Maybe he is, I consider Nexus Wars and Desert Strike on Starcraft 2 to be basically the same genre, basically build tug-o-war is what I shall refer to them from now on. Both Desert Strike and Nexus Wars on Starcraft II are very linear maps with no real terrain providing an advantage so I don't think the blob death would be destroyed in this case, which is why you need a nuke.

That's what I'm saying... instead of nuke alter the map terrain so you can use that to battle a blob.
You don't necessarily need terrain advantage. A gate of sorts + defenses might be enough unless you let the blog grow too large.

Well the other players could always build custom defenses (which usually happens in anticipation of the giant blob) but I do agree, a nuke is kind of a cop-out to a proper solution to this problem. I don't think the creator of Nexus Wars cares about that though, because it's still one of the most popular maps regardless of it's inherent flaws.

Desert strike (on sc2) is a remake of desert strike. If you read the first post, which you obviously didn't, he described the game as being like sand castle wars. Blobs are caused by incompetent players, walling in units causes them to teleport outside the wall. If you maintain good counters and such you wont ever get blobs. You CAN make defenses. If you get blob'd and you nuke it, you'll notice that the enemy blob comes right back 90% of the time. This would be because the enemy team has better/more buildings than you.

Theoretically yes but it'd take a lot more programming than it's worth for the quality of the project.

I don't think good counters will stop a blob in most cases though, sometimes there is just too much momentum from a lot units slowly picking off a small stream of reinforcements, going back to the idea that any ranged unit in mass numbers can almost defeat any melee unit that are being tossed at them in small numbers. Like let's say you make more Banelings in an attempt to stop a mass marine force, even though the banelings effectively counter it, they'll never get close enough to completely obliterate the ball.

Naw.. most of the time when I nuke, my units start to blob the opposite way.

The closest enounter in which the blob was about to reform was when they started massing immortals and void rays.. I had to nuke, and i built zling while my ally built vikings.

Still.. when I watched the replay, the immortal + void ray blob was really formed by only 4 buildings.. two for each.

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I thought desert strike was more different than Sand Castle wars, because all ur units go at once against another player.