Well a few notes, in this very thread there is a battle report (from angel_fire) of a player with 52,000 scouts being attacked by 2000 scouts. The 2000 scouts bypass the 52,000 to kill 120 ballistae. This proves you are incorrect about 1 scout blocking 100,000. Yes gates closed is a problem, I don't claim this to be a fool-proof method, but it doesn't make the tactic useless by any stretch of the imagination. Almost every high level players leaves their gates open when offline. If the gates are NOT open you do not need this method anyway as towers alone are very easy to kill and then haul away all the goodies.
Seriously? "Oh yeah even though I was proven wrong in all the statements I made before, I saw this tactic weeks ago and it didnt work, despite the fact that no one would ever have any reason to use anything like this. And even if it did work they'd change it so why bother?" Why bother playing then? Use your own head.
I don't want to sound harsh, but the math doesn't really match your words.
Assuming 100,000 rams can do what you say:
100,000 Battering rams - Cost:
100k Rams: 400,000,000 food
600,000,000 lumber
150,000,000 iron
68,500,000 seconds (with 168 attack hero)
100k Scouts - Cost:
100k scouts 1,200,000 food
2,000,000 lumber
1,500,000 iron
160,000 seconds (same hero)
I'll use server 2 market prices to reduce resource costs to gold
Food .55
Lumber .47
Iron .399
Time - Priceless
100K Rams - 561,850,000 gold
100K Scouts - 2,198,500 gold
I can make 255 times more scouts for the same cost (or I can make 25,556,060 scouts for the same cost as 100k rams). Given a 20k archer to 100k scout ratio (1:5 ratio) I can kill 5,111,000 archers with that many scouts. This is far more than the 200,000 archers you claim 100,000 rams can kill.
That's if they built at the same rate, which they do not. 100k rams takes 428 times longer to build than 100k scouts, so I could actually build 42.8Million scouts in the same TIME as 100k rams.
That's IF you had the same number of level 9 barracks, but scouts can be built from level 2 while rams require level 9, so many people will in fact find it that much easier to build scouts than rams.
So I don't really see the comparison as being valid. Again having a buncha rams isnt a bad idea, but to say that one would be better off to spend time building rams than scouts doesn't bare out mathwise.

